Economics & irish HL

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I was just wondering if anybody could give me a few tips on how to study for economics and irish bcos the mocks didnt go so great..:(

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  1. Sergey

    Economics:
    1) Learn all the definitions. (If you’re using Revise Wise, they are all at the back of the book).
    2) Make sure you know the key concepts that feature throughout the course. Demand & Supply, Factors of Production, Fiscal Policy (tax), Monetary Policy (Interest Rates), National Income. Knowing this alone will get you a decent mark I think.
    3) Know how to do calculations. Calculations always appear throughout the paper, especially in the short Qs. They are very easy and you have to know them. Multiplier, National Income, Utility, Banks creating credit.
    4) Familiarise yourself with the marking scheme. Learn what words like ‘Outline’, ‘explain’ etc. mean. Know where and how much to expand on bullet points. WRITE IN BULLET POINTS! A bullet point, then explanation, then maybe an example.
    5) A couple of weeks before the exam get the most recent facts and figures about the Irish economy (unemployment rate, National Debt, immigration rates and all that). There is bound to be topical stuff on the paper, and the topical stuff now are the banks, NAMA, unemployment, recession and all that.

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  3. Kelly Lynch

    Hey

    I did my Leaving Cert last year and got a B in Honours Irish. I would say your best bet is to relax and prioritise what you need to do. The first thing to do would be to go through your mock paper and see where you lost the most marks. Once you have established these areas that need concentrating on, you need to go through and look at where exactly you lost the marks. For example, in the comprehension, did you lose the “changing the sentence” marks, or was the whole answer wrong? If its the whole answer, then you should practise these a lot more. If it’s just the changing, then brushing up on your vocab should help this.

    With the poetry, sometimes reading the poem in English (or a translation of it) can help, as at least at that point you understand what’s happening in it! If you can come up with answers in English, you are half-way there! It’s good to learn some really general poetry phrasing too, that you can bring into every question regardless of the topic!!

    Good Luck, you’ll do great!
    x

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