As it is a very busy time for you all with Christmas exams coiming up I've put together some motivational phrases to get you through the exams.

Motivational Phrase from an Unknown Author:

"The best way to predict your future is to create it."

Unknown

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Earl Nightingale Motivational Saying:


"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use."

~ Earl Nightingale

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Jonathan Winters Motivational Saying:


"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it."
~ Jonathan Winters
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"What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

Author: Napoleon Hill, author "Think and Grow Rich"

The leavingcert.com website

Checked out the leaving cert.com website. I really like the way you can get involved and give your opinions on what is said.(When you sign up that is) but you can view everything on the site with out registering.
And they try to answer any questions you might have! Then I got a thought!!Would it be possible for you to put up a few motivational lines. It's easy to read about "how to study", but finding the energy to do it can be difficult. It might just be the thing to get smeone ripping into those books!!
Just a thought.

Open Days

03/12/2009 National College of Art & Design
04/12/2009 University College Dublin
05/12/2009 Dublin Institute of Technology
Open Evening 5 - 7 pm 08/12/2009 Dublin Business School
09/12/2009 Trinity College Dublin

A clip to give you an idea what is involved in a day in the life of a zoologist

Another interesting link in relation to subject choice answers many questions students ask when choosing subjects.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/education

The Leaving Cert

The Leaving Certificate (Established) programme offers students a broad and balanced education while allowing for some specialisation. The certificate is used for the purposes of selection into further education, employment, training and higher education.
The examination is the terminal examination of post-primary education. It is held at the end of the Senior Cycle in post-primary schools. The Senior Cycle caters for students in the 15 to 18 year old age group. The majority of candidates who sit for the examinations are recognised students in post-primary schools, are 17 or 18 years of age and have completed 5 or 6 years of post-primary education.

However, candidature for the examination is not limited to post-primary school students. A candidate following an approved course of study outside the State or who is attending an approved course of study organised under the Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme , Adult Literacy and Community Education Schemes, the Department of Social and Family Affairs second-level scheme for the unemployed or an analogous scheme, may be admitted to the examinations on payment of the appropriate fee.

Subject Choice. The examination is offered in the following subjects and levels. For curriculum information for each of these subjects please click on this link to the website of the Department of Education and Science.

I discovered a website called TheLeaving Cert.com put together by a former Leaving Cert student it has several guest writers in the form of students, past students and professionals who train, help with or teach leaving cert material.Have a look it may be helpful! http://www.theleavingcert.com/