Exam technique, marking schemes, topic breakdowns and honest advice for parents, written by the tutors who teach Leaving Cert and Junior Cycle maths every week.
"I want a H1" is not a goal, it is a wish. How to turn a target grade into weekly actions, using marks you can actually count.
Read the guide →Trigonometry is the most reliably recurring topic on Paper 2. Here is how to choose the right rule, avoid the ambiguous case, and stop losing marks to calculator mode.
Area and volume questions are lost on units, composite shapes and unread instructions far more often than on formulas. Here is the method that fixes all three.
Maths notes fail because students copy worked examples they can already follow. Here is what to write down instead, and the two pages that are worth more than a full copybook.
Why Irish maths questions are wrapped in real-world stories, what changed when Project Maths arrived, and how to answer a context question that looks unfamiliar.
The mock result matters far less than what you do in the six weeks after it. Here is how to turn a February paper into a June grade, whatever the mark says.
Maths does not behave like your other subjects, so studying it the same way fails. A realistic weekly plan for a student carrying ten or eleven subjects.
Probability questions punish vague reading more than weak maths. Here is how to tell 'and' from 'or', spot conditional probability, and handle the normal distribution.
Levels, cycles, CBAs, bonus points and the decisions that actually matter: a plain guide to how Irish secondary maths works, for parents who did a different system.
Marking schemes are the most under-used revision resource in Irish maths. Here is how to read one, how to mark your own paper honestly, and what the codes mean.
Most Junior Cycle algebra errors trace back to four specific habits formed in first year. Here is what they are, why they persist, and how to correct them.
Which calculator features actually matter for Irish maths exams, the rules you need to check before buying, and the settings that quietly cost students marks.
Ten questions worth asking before you pay for maths grinds, covering class size, recordings, tutor access, mock feedback and cost, and how Summit answers each one.
300 marks in 150 minutes means two marks a minute. Here is how to build a timing plan for Paper 1 and Paper 2, and what to do when a question overruns.
How the platform actually works: lessons indexed by topic, a moderated discussion board and mock grading, plus what we deliberately do not automate.
Maths anxiety is a real, well-documented response that blocks working memory, not a character flaw. What it looks like, what makes it worse, and what actually helps.
What separates a H1 from a H3 is rarely raw ability. It is attempt marks, method marks and how you spend the last eight weeks. Here is what actually moves the grade.
What the seven days actually include, what to do with them to find out whether we suit your child, and how to tell by day seven whether it is working.
How Junior Cycle maths is assessed, what the five strands actually cover, when to make the higher level decision, and why third year is not where it is decided.
Five specific, recurring calculus errors we correct every year, from chain rule slips to answering the wrong question in optimisation, and how to stop making them.
Class size matters for one specific reason: whether a student will admit they are lost. Here is what changes at different group sizes, and when a big class is fine.
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