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9 Top Tips to Avoid Silly Mistakes in Your Maths Exam

9 Top Tips to Avoid Silly Mistakes in Your Maths Exam

Here's our top tips that will save you a lot of marks and could even save your grade: 1. Be careful with minus signs – the single most common source of error. 2. Don’t try to do too much in one step – break it down into smaller steps.
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Exam Script Viewing and Exam Appeals – Key Facts, Dates and Resources for Leaving Cert 2019

Exam Script Viewing and Exam Appeals – Key Facts, Dates and Resources for Leaving Cert 2019

SummaryAll Leaving Cert students are entitled to view their exam scripts free...
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Pencil, pen or both? What to use in the Leaving Cert maths exam!

Pencil, pen or both? What to use in the Leaving Cert maths exam!

Should i use Pen or Pencil for math exam ? Is Blue...
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Is Higher level maths Hard? Should I Stay in it?

Is Higher level maths Hard? Should I Stay in it?

Should I stay in Higher maths or drop to “pass” maths?  Not...
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Mark Allocation in Leaving Cert 2014 – make sure you have a clear Time Management strategy

Mark Allocation in Leaving Cert 2014 – make sure you have a clear Time Management strategy

This will give you the approximate number of minutes to spend on a given question, and will also give you about 15 to 20 minutes of a "cushion", for checking, over-runs etc.
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Top 10 Tips on Putting it All Down on Paper and Maximising Your Maths Grade!

Top 10 Tips on Putting it All Down on Paper and Maximising Your Maths Grade!

So that’s our Top Ten on getting it all down on paper and maximising your maths grade on the day!  
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Launching Our ‘Maximise Your Maths Grade’ Booklet!

We've created a comprehensive guide to exam technique for Irish maths students called 'Maximise Your Maths Grade', and we are launching it this weekend in Cork. Our friends at Essential French have invited us to give a seminar to Leaving Cert students this weekend, and over 120 have already confirmed their attendance!
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Post Your Last-Minute Questions on the Maths Forum

Post Your Last-Minute Questions on the Maths Forum

Type in your question (if it's an exam question, you can just tell us what year, paper and question number e.g. 2008 P1 Q3a), and we will help you with it.
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Some Good News! “Combinations” is NOT on the LC Ordinary Syllabus.

Remember that you DO need to cover Arrangements / Permutations at LCO and LCH. 
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