May

2nd - Finishing date for assessment of LCA Task Work
(Session 2 Year 1.)
• Finishing date for the LCA Personal Reflection
Task.
6th - Leaving Certificate Engineering Practical
(10.00 – 1.00 & 2.00 – 5.00).
• Start date for monitoring Leaving Certificate
Agricultural Science and Agricultural Economics.
7th - Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme – Link
Modules – Written Examination (10.00 – 12.30)
• Leaving Certificate Construction Studies Practical
(9.30 – 1.30).
8th - Leaving Certificate Art Craftwork
(9.30 – 12.00 & 2.00 – 4.30).
• Leaving Certificate Art Design (9.30 – 12.00).
9th - Leaving Certificate Art Imaginative Composition or
Still Life (9.30 – 12.00).
• Leaving Certificate Art Life Sketching
(2.00 – 3.00).
• Final date for return of LCA Personal
Reflection Task to the Commission.
12th- Start date for LCA Practical Performance tests in
Hotel Catering & Tourism, Office Admin &
Customer Care, Active Leisure Studies, Hair &
Beauty & Agriculture/Horticulture.
16th - Finishing date for monitoring Leaving Certificate
Agricultural Science and Agricultural Economics.
• Finishing date for LCA Practical Performance
tests.
19th - Start date for LCA Oral tests in English and
Communication (Year 2 candidates) Gaeilge
Chumarsáideach, French, German, Spanish and Italian
(Year 1 and Year 2 candidates).
21st - LCA Information Technology (Specialism)
Practical performance and written test (10.00 – 12.00).
23rd - Finishing date for LCA Oral Tests.

Best of luck to everyone participating in any of the above examinations!

If you’re not already in the middle of some of the those exams then you probably are in the coming days.

• LCVP - Written
• Construction - practical
• Engineering - practical
• Art - practical

Although many of these seem very daunting at times, they’re actually not that bad. If you’re doing LCVP then it might be wise to check out the 2007 paper along with the older ones.

Engineering and Construction are basically applying skills you have aquirred over the years. So theres little that can be revised for that. And as for Art, just keep drawing!

I’d like to wish everyone the best of luck in these ongoing/upcoming exams.

As we all should know the deadlines for course work and upcoming practicals are approaching.

22rd April - Finishing date for LCVP link modules portfolio

25th April - Finishing Date for Textile Studies Elective
Coursework in Home Economics Scientific
and Social.
• Finishing Date for Leaving Certificate
Religious Education Practical
Coursework Journal.
• Finishing Date for Leaving Certificate
History Research Study Report.
• Finishing Date for Leaving Certificate
Geographical Investigation Reporting
Booklet.
• Finishing date for Leaving Cert
Music, Higher Level Elective in
Composing.

28th April - Start date for assessment of LCA Task
Work, (Session 2 Year 1) Vocational
Education and Vocational Preparation

29th April - Question papers for Leaving Certificate Art
– Craftwork and Design to be distributed to
candidates.
30th April - Question papers for Leaving Certificate
Art - Imaginative Composition or Still Life
and Life Sketching to be distributed to
candidates.
• Finishing date for Leaving Certificate
Construction Studies Project work.

Best of luck to everyone who has participated in any of the above course work. Next month will bring the start of many practical exams.

As all of you are probably (should be) aware that the Leaving cert Oral exams begin soon. Very soon as a matter of fact. So the majority of us should be trying to only speak in these languages for the weekend.

Just a note of the dates

7th - Start date for Leaving Certificate Oral tests in:

• Irish
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Italian
• Russian
• Japanese

I’d like to wish all my fellow students the best of luck.

Just a follow up on the recent downtime that was caused while moving server. With the few minor complications, caused by our own silly mistakes, we ended up with some unexpected downtime. We are now with a new company and speeds should be improved a good bit. This has been an excellent change and been made possible because of our company Tamooka.

We hope to get some changes going in the coming weeks along with the promised Videos section.

Until then!

Happy learning.

Apologies to all for the downtime experienced in the last two days. We are in the process of switching hosts and from here there should be very little inconveniences.

As a blog update, we are on easter holidays and hope to get back to blogging from monday,

Colin.

Students,

Here at leaving-cert.net we have set up an exciting new forum where you to talk with your fellow learners.

• http://leaving-cert.net/forum/

After a few simple steps in registration you can get posting with other like minded students or otherwise about all aspects of student life and the leaving cert exams.

Enjoy,

Colin.

The Pres have always been a hot topic up for debate. As many of you noticed, the debating has already begun. Many people argue that cheating for the pres is morally wrong, whereas others will be for it, depending on how you look at it. Although cheating has been frowned upon, it has been looked at in a different way recently. Focused learning being the positive one, and using information for bad intention being the negative.

Various formats of the the pre leaving cert exam papers from DEB and examcraft have been floating around the internet lately. Various discussions have been going on over at boards.ie about it, until the moderators stepped up and banned users for posting links to copyrighted material. Which was a step in the right direction, but there was always google cache. And various other sources.

It seems that many people all over the country obtained copies of the papers before they sat their exams. Which raised a little more awareness about the pres and how effective they really are. The fact that schools choose the date that the pres are held doesn’t help either. You have friends sharing copies also. However, sharing information wont stop. But perhaps the approach to the pres needs to be looked into.

Let us know what you think!