Go n-éirí an bóthar leat!
Yeats College teacher Samantha Hogan provides practical advice on how to make the most of the Irish you have learned so far and build on it further
Ihope you survived the mocks and more importantly that you gained a valuable insight as to what you need to complete over the next three months. As you are aware the oral exams are fast approaching. The oral is worth 40% of your overall result. Therefore, prepare a workable study plan today for the remaining weeks leading up to it. Stick to this plan and see your level improve daily!
There are three sections to your Higher Level Irish exam. The oral exam will be examined in schools across the country in April. Paper One comprises the listening exam and essay writing. It will take place on Monday afternoon, 11 June, 2018. Paper Two includes two reading comprehensions and literary studies. The literature section consists of prose studies, poetry studies and the extra optional literary course. Paper Two will take place on Tuesday morning, 12 June, 2018.
This Exam Brief will take each of these sections in turn, summarise the marks and time to be spent on each one and give you tips on how best to prepare for the questions. In addition, I will include a guide to approaching the questions on the day of the exam. Finally I have accompanied this with sample answers, keywords and questions.
For parents
Before we begin, here is a checklist of tasks you may discuss with your son/daughter:
✔ Have you got an organised folder?
✔ Do you have a set of exam papers?
✔ Do you know your dates for mocks, orals, state examinations? ✔ Have you an effective and realistic study plan in place? ✔ Are you practising the listening comprehensions outside of the classroom?
✔ Are you practising reading comprehensions from past exam papers?
✔ Are you practising saying the oral pictures aloud?
✔ Are you practising conversations ‘as Gaeilge’ with friends and family ..... ?
✔ Do you know the correct layout for each written paper? ✔ Have you studied the marks and time allocation for each section?
✔ Are you motivated and determined to action that study plan TODAY?!