
Demystifying the Bell Curve
99.5% of students in 2023 passed Higher Level Maths – you are safe!

99.5% of students in 2023 passed Higher Level Maths – you are safe!

As Roy Keane once said: Fail to prepare, prepare to fail – so get organised!

If paper 1 wasn’t hard enough, well, best of luck with paper 2!

On both the Higher and Ordinary Leaving Cert Maths syllabus, there are two final papers, Maths Paper 1 and Paper 2. Each paper is 2.5 hours long. Exam Timing You have 2.5 hours for this exam. I’d split this up into:…

Leaving Cert Timetable 2026 It’s an early LC this year, with the 2026 Leaving Cert beginning on Weds, June 3rd. Here’s the full timetable: How to Prepare Look at this stage, it’s heads down. All about doing consistent study, rather…

The last couple of years have seen a lot of changes to the average Leaving Cert points… Ever since the pandemic hit our shores back in 2020, the points system has been in a hoop. That summer, the Leaving Cert…

For anyone filling out their CAO at the moment, you’ll hear a lot of talk about college course levels – Level 5s, Level 6/7s, and Level 8s – but do you know the Leaving Cert NFQ Level? The Leaving Certificate…

The Leaving Cert Grading System The Leaving Certificate is the final exam for secondary school students in Ireland. The Department of Education and Skills introduced a new Leaving Certificate grading scale and revised the common points scale in 2017. All…

State Exam Myths The Leaving Cert (and Junior Cycle) are shrouded in mystery. There are a number of potential reasons for this, including the fact that most people only sit each of these sets of exams once in their life…

What are the easiest Leaving Cert subjects? Which Leaving Cert subjects are the easiest to get an H1? In the past few years, subjects like Applied Maths and Russian had the highest numbers of students getting an H1 with average…