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Junior Cycle Irish Exam Papers | Homeschool
There are a number of other ways to prepare for the Junior Cycle Irish examination. These include:
• Using online resources: There are a number of websites that offer free resources and advice for students preparing for their Junior Cycle Irish exams. Examples include www.homeschool.ie
• Speaking to your teacher: If you have any questions or queries about the exam, your teacher will be able to help you out. They may also be able to give you some extra study tips.
• Buying revision guides: There are a number of revision guides available for purchase, which can be helpful in providing structure to your studying and highlighting key areas that need to be focused on.
• Doing practice papers: One of the best ways to prepare for an exam is by doing practice papers under timed conditions. This will help you get used to the format of the exam and identify any areas where you need to improve.
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Is anyone else here doing their Junior Cert this school year (2019) or is it just me?
pls reblog if you are! I’ll follow and support y’all while we suffer together
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Ranting about the Irish educational system
-sorry in advance-
I hate the Irish educational system, if you weren't aware. There's many reasons behind this, one is the fact that noone speaks Irish. Like, in a country where we fought so hard to be separate from Britain, we still speak their language. And the reason Irish is declining and will continue to do so, is the way it's taught. It's taught as if the students should already be fluent in the language. It's an endless cycle of 'you'll learn this later' and 'you should've learnt this earlier'. The only people fluent in Irish are those who went to Gaelscoils or live in Gaeltachts. After 13 years learning it in school, most adults only remember a phrase or two. It's just atrocious.
Another reason is the new junior cycle. It was 'designed to remove the pressure' of one exam by making the pressure even throughout the year with CBAs that are worth 10% in the end.
And I'm not saying this as someone who is doing badly in school, I'm saying this as someone who thrives in the system. It's not just those who are failed by the Irish educational system that hate it, it's everyone in it. Even if it WAS only the students who were failing that hated it, it'd still be a problem. Teachers hate it. They are underpaid ridiculously just because of their age. I'm honestly just so done. Yes this is because I got 36+ hours worth of homework over Christmas. Me not doing it is a protest
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Notre Dame new beginnings as NCAA football recruiting dead period ends
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Notre Dame new beginnings as NCAA football recruiting dead period ends
Drayk Bowen, for one, was appreciative that Notre Dame skipped the gimmickry of a football recruiting midnight madness earlier this week and drenched the start of potentially the most pivotal — and frazzled — recruiting month of the Brian Kelly Era in normalcy.
After a pandemic-induced, 15-month NCAA recruiting dead period of no (hosted) in-person campus visits and an overdose of Zooms, the largely universal knee-jerk template put in place at many college football programs across the country for Tuesday’s reopening was a mixture of pomp and chaos.
Notre Dame chose instead to be calculating and evolutionary.
Bowen, an elite linebacker prospect from St. John, Ind., and Chandavian Bradley, an ascending defensive end prospect from Missouri, along with their parents were the only invitees on Day 1. Bowen tagged along with new Irish defensive coordinator and linebackers coach Marcus Freeman, while Bradley got one-on-one time with defensive line coach and recruiting coordinator Mike Elston.
The structure of the visits themselves was right out of the pre-pandemic playbook. Who was taking those visits is what was different and significant.
Both visitors are 2023 recruits, players who will be high school juniors in the fall. Bradley, unranked in the Rivals top 100 and No. 90 nationally in 247Sports’ early playoff rankings, has the traits. productivity and the frame (6-5) to grow into a five-star prospect, even if he’s only 205 pounds at the moment.
Bowen, No. 16 in the Rivals Top 100, is already on that five-star trajectory, with a work ethic that will make that difficult to dislodge.
Before getting in the car with his parents to come to South Bend Tuesday, the 6-2, 215-pound Bowen performed his daily 5:30 a.m. ritual or speed work and lifting before making the 30-minute drive to Andrean High School in Merrillville, to take final exams.
“Drive is something I saw in my parents,” Bowen said. “My dad built a business pretty much from scratch and built it into a multi-million dollar business. My mom worked a couple of different jobs to provide for us. So I got it from them.
“Obviously, I want to be the best — the best player I can be, the best teammate, the best person, so wanting to be the best kind of drives me a lot too.”
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Twelfth-year Irish head coach Brian Kelly, meanwhile, is driven by the incessant questions pushed at him of how he’ll close the gap with College Football Playoff bullies Alabama, Ohio State and Clemson, as well as his own self-imposed directive of Notre Dame starting to produce top five national recruiting classes on a regular basis.
June thus becomes an important and overt benchmark toward turning rhetoric into results, though the momentum has been building behind the scenes for months since Alabama’s 31-14 dismissal of the Irish in a Jan. 1 playoff semifinal.
The Irish currently stand fourth nationally in both the Rivals and 247Sports team recruiting rankings after finishing ninth in both in the 2021 cycle.
“There have been two major changes with Notre Dame recruiting that are paying big dividends,” CBS Sports recruiting analyst Tom Lemming said. “They’re swinging for the fences in terms of who they’re going after.
“Marcus Freeman came in, and he’s not afraid of anybody or anything. That’s rubbed off on the rest of the staff. And Mike Elston, as recruiting coordinator, enhances that approach with impressive organization and creativity.
“Also key is Notre Dame is now evaluating and offering kids earlier than ever before. In the past, they were always about a year behind Alabama, Ohio State, Clemson, Georgia and LSU — and they couldn’t catch up. Those schools had already established strong relationships before ND ever got involved.
“Now they’re on top of the 2023 kids and getting them on campus. They’ve even offered some 2024 kids the past few weeks. When was the last time Notre Dame offered a freshman? Never. Kelly lit a fire under these guys. And you’re going to see that pay off with the 2022 class.
“But you know what — 2023’s going to be even better.”
That would be an indication, if it came to pass, that Kelly coaxed a sustainable recruiting shift and not a one-cycle bump from its playoff appearance.
What that will look like this month is a blend of camps, official visits, unofficial visits, rolling out Notre Dame’s name-image-likeness potential in the imminent new amateur sports model, and blending the transfer portal into all of that.
Two potential 2021 starters — Tulsa cornerback Akayleb Evans and Marshall All-America offensive guard Cain Madden — visited this week as grad transfers.
Madden became the first verbal commitment of June on Friday when he selected the Irish over ND’s season-opening opponent, Florida State.
On Sunday ND resurrects its Irish Invasion Camp, a key evaluative and exposure tool that will draw 90-100 prospects from the 2023 and ‘24 classes. There’s quality to go with that quantity, though many of the campers are prospects that are ascending or underexposed to this point.
Still between the Irish Invasion and regular visits, like the ones Bowen and Bradley took, 16 Rivals top 100 prospects and counting from that class will get a taste of Notre Dame in June.
“That’s a Notre Dame trump card, to be able to be holding these visits in June,” Lemming said, “when the campus is as beautiful as any in the country.”
The Irish recruiting staff opted to wait until the weekend of June 11-13, when its players returned to campus for summer school and workouts, to introduce the 2022 prospects into the equation.
‘Last piece of the puzzle’
The NCAA didn’t alter the existing recruiting calendar when it truncated the dead period, meaning schools had just four weekends before the fall to shoehorn in all their official visitors. The Irish will do it in three, along with some midweek visits.
“The competition to get 2022 kids on your campus was fierce, given the limited number of weekends,” Lemming said. “Notre Dame was pretty much able to get every kid on their wish list to commit to an official visit, which is huge.”
That includes 13 players ranked in the top 100 of Rivals, 247Sports or both. Notre Dame begins the month with 13 players already committed in a class that’s likely to number 26 or 27 when the December signing period rolls around.
“I think you’re going to see a lot of these 2022s commit quickly,” Lemming said. “They’re antsy. They’re tired of talking to the coaches on Zoom. The visit is the last piece of the puzzle. Even some of the sophomores may be quick to commit.”
Bowen won’t likely be one of them. He’s got a full summer of travel baseball and unofficial football visits to take. He followed up his ND visit with a tour of Michigan on Wednesday. Clemson, which offered the morning Bowen visited ND, will get a visit next week as will Tennessee, Ole Miss and perhaps Ohio State.
Then after more baseball commitments, he’ll take an Alabama-Auburn-LSU swing at the end of June.
“The way I was looking at it, I wanted to visit colleges, get to meet people, see the campuses,” Bowen said. “Probably start narrowing down after that. So that was kind of my timeline.
“Then maybe mid-junior year — the end of football and the beginning of baseball — is kind of when I wanted to almost be done with it, be able to be done and just enjoy senior year.”
To land Bowen, Notre Dame will have to theoretically beat out at least five of the six schools that comprised 247Sports’ top six classes last season.
An unexpected bounce in favor of the Irish is the surge of the Notre Dame baseball team under second-year coach Link Jarrett. Notre Dame is the overall No. 10 seed in the NCAA Tournament, and hosting a regional this weekend for the first time in 17 years.
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Bowen is familiar with the careers or two-sports Notre Dame stars Jeff Samardzija and Cole Kmet, and the shortstop/third baseman wants to try it himself.
“It wouldn’t be a deal breaker, but I do want to do both,” he said after touring the Irish baseball facilities and meeting its staff during his football visit Tuesday.
Whether he sticks to that notion, those who have studied Bowen’s game believe his best football is ahead of him.
“He’s going to be a Butkus Award favorite in 2022, and he plays like one now,” Lemming said.
“I think when you watch him, it becomes very obvious that he’s just relentless on defense,” Andrean coach Chris Skinner added. “On any given play, he’s going to find his way to the ball regardless of what side it goes to, where he’s at.
“You take obviously a high-end physical skill set and match it up with this relentless enthusiasm for the game. And then you talk to him and you find out that he’s a straight-A student and works harder than the average high school student (4.17 on a 4.0 scale).
“He really does study the game of kind of understanding the pass concepts of the opposing team and what windows do they want to be in? When you throw it all together, it’s pretty cool to think about.”
The same might be said of Notre Dame recruiting by month’s end.
“There’s a lot coming at the coaching staff and the recruiting support staff this month,” Lemming said. “But it seems they have a plan for everything, including how to personalize visits when the sheer number of kids visiting would seem to make that impossible.
“Notre Dame was never going to be great in recruiting unless they changed their ways, and now they did. I’m excited about the way they’re going about it now. I’m excited about what that can turn into down the road for them.”
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How physical fitness can boost teens' mental health
How physical fitness can boost teens' mental health Originally published Jan. 13, 2020 in the Irish Examiner. By Helen O'Callahagan With the goal of getting teenagers moving, new cross-curricular lesson resources have been developed for PE and Science teachers. https://ihtusa.com https://ihtusa.com/how-physical-fitness-can-boost-teens-mental-health/ Originally published Jan. 13, 2020 in the Irish Examiner. By Helen O'Callahagan With the goal of getting teenagers moving, new cross-curricular lesson resources have been developed for PE and Science teachers. Launched by CÚRAM, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Medical Devices based at NUI Galway, the Strength in Science project has a double aim: to make science more personal and relevant to teens by linking how the biology and physics involved in exercise affects their health. And in a very subtle way: to present strong female role models working in different Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics careers. The Children’s Sport Participation and Physical Activity 2018 study shows that just 19% of post-primary girls meet Department of Education recommended minimum guidelines of 120 minutes of PE a week. Time pressure due to school work is often cited as a reason for allocating too little PE during school hours. The Strength in Science developers hope that by strongly linking PE lessons to the science curriculum, educators will feel time dedicated to PE isn’t taking away from exam preparation. Four-lesson plan kits linked to the Junior Cycle PE and Science curriculums are available. They integrate the work of world-leading, Irish researchers with the scientific effects of exercise on areas of the body to prevent vascular disease, osteoporosis, stroke and neuro- degenerative disorders. Project leader Sarah Gundy says the programme gets at the real heart of the science behind exercise. We’re hoping it will increase teen participation in exercise, as well as their understanding of how exercise affects their bodies — that exercise isn’t just about helping them lose weight but that it has an effect on their bones, their blood. So far, eight schools have taken on the project — five in Galway, three in Dublin — involving over 600 students. Gundy gives an example of the detail students will learn about the effects of exercise on the body. “Trying a new exercise technique, like using a racket with your less dominant hand, builds new neurons in the brain. Aerobic exercise releases nitric oxide, which will make the insides of the arteries slippery so plaque won’t stick.” Among the NUI Galway researchers featured on the videos are vascular surgeon Niamh Hynes and biomedical engineer Professor Laoise McNamara.
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62000 students collect Junior Cert results today - Irish Examiner
Irish Examiner 62000 students collect Junior Cert results today Irish Examiner Most of the students will also receive a Junior Cycle Profile of Achievement (JCPA) later this year from their schools, combining their exam results with the outcome of classroom-based assessments in English done under supervision of their teachers. New Junior Cert English results show more pupils with good gradesIndependent.ie Wait for Junior Cert results nearly overRTE.ie all 23 news articles »
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Irish Exam Papers Junior Cycle | Homeschool
It’s an exciting time for Irish students – the Junior Cycle is here! For most, it will be their first experience taking a major exam. As such, it’s important to make sure that you are adequately prepared and understand why the Junior Cycle is so important. we will be exploring the reasons why the Irish Exam Papers Junior Cycle is a key part of any student's learning journey in Ireland. We will also discuss some tips and tricks on how to ensure you are as prepared as possible for your exams.
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Junior Cycle Irish Exam Papers | Homeschool
Junior Cycle Irish is intended to help secondary school students expand on their primary school listening, reading, and writing skills. Although there may be more core courses depending on the type of school, it is taken in conjunction with the three other core subjects of English, Mathematics, and History.
Irish is studied at the Ordinary or Higher level like other subjects. This also holds true for mathematics, which can be studied at the foundational level. junior cycle irish exam papers assessments include two in-class evaluations, a language portfolio and communication task, an evaluation task, and a final written exam paper.
Studying the full text of a novel as well as the literature prescribed in the curriculum for all levels is required of students taking the Higher level final written paper (at least two short stories, one complete play and five poems or songs).
Irish is taught as a subject in English-medium schools, where English is also used by the students as a working language. T2's purpose is to assist students in becoming proficient in speaking Irish and understanding how it is used in everyday life away from the classroom.
Students taking T1 are probably native Irish speakers or students in schools where Irish is the primary language. As a result, they will have advanced Irish language abilities. T1 aims to assist students in expanding their vocabulary, learning more about their culture, distinguishing between various dialects, and concentrating on the Irish language's structure.
The State Examinations Commission determines the length of the final written exam for the Irish junior cycle, which is two hours for both the Ordinary and Higher levels. 90% of a student's overall Junior Cycle Irish grade will come from this exam.
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Junior Cycle Irish Sample Papers | Homeschool
Irish second-level education's three-year Junior Cycle Irish Sample Papers with the Junior Certificate examination. The exam is often taken when a student is 15 or 16 years old, and it is typically held in June. The Junior Cycle Profile of Achievement is gradually taking the place of the Junior Certificate (JCPA).
All students are required to take the three core topics of English, Irish, and Mathematics as part of the Junior Cycle, which covers a wide range of subjects. Additionally, history was added as a required topic.
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Irish Grinds for Primary School | Homeschool
Homeschool.ie is an Irish Grinds for Primary School that provides ALL subjects, including Junior Cycle and Leaving Certificate, at both the Primary and Secondary levels. You will get support, no matter what stage of your education you're at.
We also provide a variety of additional services, such as assistance with homework and exam planning, to ensure that you can always have the support you require.
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Leaving Certificate (Ireland) | Homeschool.ie
The Leaving Certificate Examination (also known as the Leaving Cert) is the final exam in the Irish secondary school system. The Leaving Certificate Examination requires at least two years of preparation. However, students who have completed the Junior Certificate Examination can opt for a Transition Year. This means that it will take place three years after the Junior Certificate Examination. These years are collectively called "The Senior Cycle." The majority of students who take the exam are between 16 and 20 years old. More than eighty percent of these students pass the exam. The State Examinations Commission oversees the Examination.
There are many benefits to the current Leaving Cert. It is fair and externally marked. It is objective. It is anonymous and independent. It is therefore immune to manipulation. To be successful, it requires hard work and diligence on the part of the student.
HomeSchool.ie offers Leaving Certification in a variety of subjects to students. This certification covers the entire syllabus for an academic year. Students can enroll at any level throughout the academic year.
Students can access 24 video lessons and revision notes from a variety of Ireland's top teachers once they are enrolled.
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Exam students in limbo after ASTI ballot result - Irish Examiner
Irish Examiner Exam students in limbo after ASTI ballot result Irish Examiner It plans to maintain a ban on co-operation with junior cycle reform after this week's ballot result in which members narrowly rejected settlement proposals on this issue and their pay dispute. However, there was a chink of hope last night that an ... and more »
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Exam students in limbo after ASTI ballot result - Irish Examiner
Irish Examiner Exam students in limbo after ASTI ballot result Irish Examiner It plans to maintain a ban on co-operation with junior cycle reform after this week's ballot result in which members narrowly rejected settlement proposals on this issue and their pay dispute. However, there was a chink of hope last night that an ... Second chance for JC English test amid ASTI action, schools toldRTE.ie More disruption for students ahead as secondary teachers reject dealIrish Times all 25 news articles »
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