Study Skills - Leaving Certificate Guide

A practical, student-friendly Study Skills booklet for Leaving Certificate students, designed to help students make better use of their study time without adding more unnecessary work.

Rather than simply telling students to “study more”, the booklet shows them what effective study can actually look like and gives them practical strategies they can use across their subjects.

What’s included?

Students will learn how to:

• work out what they actually need to study
• break broad subjects into specific, manageable tasks
• build a realistic study timetable
• plan their week and month
• use retrieval practice effectively
• use blurting and flashcards to test themselves
• make proper use of past papers
• choose useful tasks when they only have 5, 15, 30 or 60 minutes
• set up a study space that helps them focus
• deal with those days when they just can’t get started
• choose the right study strategy for what they need to do

The booklet also contains photocopiable planning and study-session pages that students can reuse throughout the year.

There is also guidance on useful Leaving Cert study websites, managing the year ahead and looking after wellbeing during a busy exam year.

Suitable for Sixth Year / Leaving Certificate students across all subjects.