Studying Tips: Take a Break!
Studying Tips: Take a Break! Studying is a challenging experience and something that needs to be approached correctly. It’s not just a case of sitting down and ploughing on with…
Study Skills
Find out all you need to know about Study Skills for third level education on Whichcollege.ie.
There is a certain amount of freedom that comes with third level education that’s absent from secondary school. The emphasis is that the student is now an adult and is responsible for organising their study.
On Whichcollege.ie there’s a number of helpful articles that will benefit students entering college. These articles will illustrate Study Skills that will give students routines and methods that’ll teach them time management.
Study Is What You Do. Hobbies Are What You Are.
Your time at University can be the best years of your life as you discover a whole other world to the one you have lived up until this point in…
SECRETS OF STUDY: Memorisation
Memories, like the corners of your mind, are unstable things at the best of times. For example, you might find it hard to recall your mother’s birthday or the name…
SECRETS OF STUDY: The Benefits of Study Groups
The Leaving Cert – the tears, the laughter – is opening soon at an exam hall near you. By this stage, you are probably fantasising about creative ways to destroy…
Go to the Gaeltacht
The Gaeltacht refers to the areas in Ireland where the Irish language is still spoken in the community; and where traditional culture and ways are alive and thriving. It…
Learning on the Job
The stereotype of the college student, cocooned within the comforting sanctuary of higher education and divorced from the hardships of ‘real’ working life, could not be further from the…
Get Revising
Active Revision The idea behind revision is not just to cover again [or maybe read for the first time!] work you have done in class or for homework, but…
Enlightening Links
It’s amazing the things you can learn from the Internet, want to know how to write the perfect college essay? How to find the best quote to give your…
Work Experience
These days a degree alone does not necessarily guarantee your dream job. Getting Work Experience or completing an Internship is quickly becoming the best and most reliable way of…
About Study Skills
Preparing for exams like the Leaving Cert is a pretty big task. Most of us can remember fairly well what somebody told us ten minutes ago, or something we…
Study Skills
Preparing for exams like the Leaving Cert is a pretty big task. Most of us can remember fairly well what somebody told us ten minutes ago, or something we…
Active Revision
Just reading and re-reading something is not the best way to remember it. The idea behind exam revision is not just to cover again [or maybe read for the…
Healthy Body = Healthy Mind
There are other ways you can improve your exam performance, besides spending all day with the books. People tend to be successful, in exams as well as in other…
Study Space and Routine
The environment in which you study can have a huge impact on the amount of information that you retain and are able to reproduce during your exams. If you…
