To learn more about what will be covered in each subject, please select from the list below:
English
Overall a focus on key areas to improve your comprehension skills and the presentation of answers. There will be plenty of opportunity for questions, inputs and extra work.
- Why am I here?
- What is Junior Cycle English?
- Material to cover
- Junior Cycle grades
- Assessments
- How to present your answer
- General indicators of quality
- Level of answering
- Main areas of concern
- Grammar: Capital letters and full stops
- Answering unseen material
- How to approach a poem
- Literary devices
- Covid poem
- Language of film
- Gothic short
- Grammar: The apostrophe
- Reflection
- Types of Writing
Irish
This course will introduce students to the Junior Cycle course and exam layout to give them the skills needed to tackle the curriculum. This course will cover two of the most important areas of Irish grammar needed to convey ideas: the past tense and the copula. Question phrases relevant to all areas of the exam will also be discussed.
Topics:
- Course structure and exam layout
- The copula and sentence structure
- The past tense
- Literature – the drama
- Written Composition
Maths
Topics covered include:
- Linear equations, including fractions
- Simultaneous equations
- Sets with linear equations
Example exam questions and solutions throughout