Overall, Is the leaving cert hard?

Question

I know you have to work hard but is it a tough year even at that? How long would you be at studying/homework per night?

Thanks

Answer 1

I don't know, I can tell you there is a huge work load and a huge amount of study to be done in each subject.

However it is mostly learning off, you do not have to work with it or engage with it like you will have to in college.

I didn't study at all (not once, not even before tests) until 6th year, I started after the Pres (which I mostly failed and got about 200 points in)

and for the month of may I did about 13 hours study a day.

But that's me, I can retain any piece of information for exactly 24 hours and then it is gone forever, which made me perfect for the Leaving Cert. I wrote essay questions based on information I had read for the first time in my life the morning before in a rapid revision book, I can remember facts and figures and percentages for.. like I said... 24 hours, it might as well have been called the Rebecca Cert.

Don't do that. Start now. (although almost no piece of information on the Jr course is also on the Leaving Cert course, especially in the science subjects where we were basically told they had being lying to us to the first 3 years (and in college they'll tell you everything you learned in the previous 6 years was wrong) It's the habit that counts. Don't burn yourself out and live your life and be a teenager, but do the study you're told to do, revise what you've done each day, watch TnaG,  rent films in the language you'll be learning, go on holidays there for the summer.

And then, in may 2012 go MAD

You'll find in school, the hardest thing is not the study and the learning and the classes themselves, it's the things that stop you from doing them, find a balance.  

Answer 2

It's not hard if you have the right attitude. Pay attention at class and ask questions if you don't understand anything.  20 hours a week studying would be OK.  Bottom line is, you will get out of it what you put in.

Answer 3

It's the worst year but at the same time it's the best year...I was told that before I started,and I completly agree now that i've just got my results! It's a tough year,but you're ready for it! at the same time you'll bond more with you're friends,and make so much more friends..and you'll have great nights out as treats!

homework and study usually takes about 3 hours i'd say altogether,it's a good idea to do supervised study for motivation too

Best of luck!

Answer 4

Well obviously its hard.

Its the hardest thing you'll ever do.

Answer 5

Well, I have a degree and a Masters degree and I still believe the Leaving Cert was the hardest exam I ve ever had to do.

The reason?

In university you can pick the area you like, therefore you are motivated, interested and will (hopefully) do very well. What makes the Leaving Cert so difficult is having to study subjects you hate. For me it was History, so to have to study subjects you hate is the real struggle. Thats my two cents anyhow.