Time Management

You don’t manage your time properly – you can wave goodbye to maximising your points. You MUST look at the length of exams, the number of marks per question, the number of questions required…

take art history for example:

  • 150 marks for the paper:
  • 50 marks question 1 (so we spend 1/3 of the time on q1)
  • 50 marks question 2 (so we spend 1/3 of the time on q2)
  • 50 marks question 3 (so we spend 1/3 of the time on q3)

so say you have 90mins for the paper, that means you spend 30 mins on each question.

This sort of planning and organising of time is absolutely vital in an exam. You need to go in to each exam knowing exactly how much time you have to spend on each question and what questions you need to answer. There’s no margin for error on the day, everything must be perfect.

15 thoughts on “Time Management”

  1. Sir youclearly did not take geography since… it has been on the Leaving Cert course. Which is probably since the begining. There are similar areas focussed on, with more human/social stuff, but that means you need 15 statisitics per 30 mark question. These are the essay questions, and may come up in different forms, so you need about 30 for each topic. Out of over 100 topics/chapters…
    You work that one out. Saying there is “a bit” more detail in it compared to the JC is like saying there is “a bit” more detail in the Sistine Chapel (spelling?) compared to an A JC art project.

    Nearly

  2. Sir youclearly did not take geography since… it has been on the Leaving Cert course. Which is probably since the begining. There are similar areas focussed on, with more human/social stuff, but that means you need 15 statisitics per 30 mark question. These are the essay questions, and may come up in different forms, so you need about 30 for each topic. Out of over 100 topics/chapters…
    You work that one out. Saying there is “a bit” more detail in it compared to the JC is like saying there is “a bit” more detail in the Sistine Chapel (spelling?) compared to an A JC art project.

    Nearly

  3. you can’t just bluff in geography. there is a hell lot to learn because there is so much detail. if you bluffed in an exam you would fail and many people do. it’s actually really hard to do well and get an A1. This is the worst tip ever and if anyone follows it they will fail, so don’t. this is a pile of bull.

  4. you can’t just bluff in geography. there is a hell lot to learn because there is so much detail. if you bluffed in an exam you would fail and many people do. it’s actually really hard to do well and get an A1. This is the worst tip ever and if anyone follows it they will fail, so don’t. this is a pile of bull.

  5. are you fucking shitting me easy my bollocks have you even taken this subjet or are you just makin up numbers

  6. are you fucking shitting me easy my bollocks have you even taken this subjet or are you just makin up numbers

  7. An actual geography student

    Im a student , passed mocks with flying colours , all bluff work. dead right , small bit of learning for real thing along with alota common sense and im in for a good grade

  8. An actual geography student

    Im a student , passed mocks with flying colours , all bluff work. dead right , small bit of learning for real thing along with alota common sense and im in for a good grade

  9. Bad Advice but it is true that if you got a A in the Junior Cert. you could bluff the leaving Cert. to a C grade (i.e. 59%). Besides in general all L.C. exams are getting easier every year and in geography the questions seem not to stray too far from the core information, which was studied for the Junior Cert.

  10. Bad Advice but it is true that if you got a A in the Junior Cert. you could bluff the leaving Cert. to a C grade (i.e. 59%). Besides in general all L.C. exams are getting easier every year and in geography the questions seem not to stray too far from the core information, which was studied for the Junior Cert.

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