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H hello good tag bonjour and you’re very welcome into study hub for episode 6 and if you’re new to us this is the weekly podcast where we gently guide you through the leaving search exams and as well as this part check out our social streams which are full of extra
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Little know of knowledge that we hope will help you along but back to this week’s part on what Joys have we got lined up for you well today it’s one of the big ones I know I always say this but this really is one of the big ones
It’s G though which is filled with poets and pros and all the shano that you can wave a stick at but it’s a joy because of course you also get to watch movies and study great plays just like this one it’s even under oh a
Forri oh a forri love it on stre there of course we hope you’re testing yourself there while listening to that then we will turn our attention to physics and that gives us an excuse to examine the idea of the Multiverse and just how many evins might be out
There I’m not your husband I’m going the From Another Universe I’m here because we need your help very busy today and whole TI to help you across the Multiverse I’ve seen thousands of evence some people’s worst nightmare thousands of Evans from everything everywhere all at once there and then
Art and for many of us the most important subject because one day you will find yourself in an art gallery age 90 and you’ll still be able to truck out these phrases the philosophies you learned back in your art class when most of the subjects will have faded away but
If B Chell never had in mind the full blooded arousal of all those who looked at his sensationally famous Venus arriving naked on the beach which he didn’t what exactly was he after the irrepressible valdemar unek art critic and writer there so G give physics and
Art for you today and also we just want to give a quick mention for our Music students that the dun L cor Society were in touch with us and their website is dc. and they are running a beautiful concert on the 24th of March the concert
Of V Val and B is on at 4:30 p.m. in the Church of the Assumption in doy but at 3:00 their conductor John doy will be running through the leing CT Music exam with students students are welcome to come along from 3:00 for just 5o and
They’ll get a master class in the music some of the music syllabus for music leaving search so that’s 3:00 on the 24th of March so we just wanted to say that to you but let’s get back to the uer today and we are going to get on
With our G and to guide us through po though we’re joined by Shane deera from the Dublin Academy Shane you’re very welcome to the program it’s great to be here Kate mil to now um like so many of our conversations here let’s start with kind of just that format that idea of
Giving us the structure of the paper because we know it’s a busy paper with lots of writing ahead it definitely is um Irish paper 2 is is the marathon I call it anyway um three hours and 5 minutes we have four questions four sections if you want to call them as
Such we have reading comprehension s which are 100 marks which account for 17% of the grade we have the question two next which is the pros section we that accounts for 30 marks which is 5% of the grade we have the Poetry section again 30 marks accounts for 5% of the
Grade and finally then the section number four I like to focus on a trail the drama and that is 40 marks and that is 6.5% of the grade great so talking through then what kind of timings am I looking at how am I chopping up all this
Time um okay you would want to spend the bulk your time obviously on the reading comprehensions H they to me are most important because I think they’re the easiest place to the bit they talk about the least they bore the backside if you talking about the boats exactly the reading comprehension absolutely reading
Comprehension the anwers are in front of you it’s always nice and you can just plug the anwers in front of you so I would spend 45 minutes on both comprehension so that would be 90 in total uh moving on then I would go to the pros the pros I would spend 25
Minutes on it tends to be usually one question and that’s why I would give that 25 minutes The Poetry section of the exam has three questions one long two short so I would give that 30 minutes I would try get the two short questions done inside maybe 6 minutes
And spend the remaining 24 minutes on the longer question and then at the end you have on trail 40 marks 40 minutes that’s why I would now you’ve talked about the read and comprehension and you really are Keen to hammer home on this so let’s you know talk about it for a
Minute youve strategies here because you’re saying you’ve already mentioned the answers are in front of them talk us through approaching this and what students can do to make this work for them okay so so in the exam the first thing I would do is I would read the
Title to make sure you know you get the hint what’s going on they used to provide pictures not as much anymore now but read the the title make sure you kind of get an idea of what it’s about from that point I would skim down through the questions very quickly and
I’d Mark the keywords in every question I would look at which paragraphs my sixa grammar questions are uh just to explain that you have to identify two pieces of grammar so you’ll need to know what paragraph to look in and where to find them 6B everyone’s least favorite question and probably most poorly
Answered question 6B is an opinion question as such it’ll dread that CU they’re going to get it wrong yeah they do and the big thing that they the reason why probably people get it wrong is that maybe they’re they’re not answering it properly it says in bold
Writing in your own words yet a lot of people take that as a suggestion it’s not a suggestion you’re allowed copy and paste answers one to sixa from the comprehension we’re very generous we want you to do well find it take it steal it put it on paper so 6B you have
To use a bit of your own Irish there but you can use the language in it but twist it change tenses like that you mean you’re smart about it oh absolutely you let’s say for example you know you have two verbs in the sentence what I would
Tell my own students to do is look at the second verb in the sentence and make that the first verb in the give us an example them okay um glocka porcha he is taking part I would start this set instead of a glocka pora I would use Glock as the verb I’ve
Have that the root of my sentence and I would say Glock sh por and that’s enough of a change absolutely you’ve taken out your tissue it up there and you’ve now changed your verb Right Moving on um you are going to on to Pros there okay so there are five
Pieces to study two will appear so again guide us through this what’s the approach for this so two will appear this year they they have a choice again which is great because the students have a choice there are five pieces to prepare um because there’s a choice mathematically speaking you only have to
Prepare four to be to be safe to be cover so that will C ding ding ding we love that in study Hub yep absolutely cheap sound effects exactly from that point onwards what I would look at then is that my own view on it is they’ve never repeated any question two years in
A row the exam’s running close to 13 years now nothing has been repeated two years in a row so that should you know kind of indicate to student what is important and what isn’t important focusing on the different pieces themselves they’re all different pieces treat them as four unique pieces what I
Ask my students really to do is to get 20 nouns to get 20 adjectives maybe and about 10 verbs are really comfortable with based on each piece and to use those as moving pieces to describe and the key thing is here the characters you’re not really dealing with you’re
Very keen that people get this message not thems it’s about characters yeah it’s about characters like you’re you’re you’re reading either sorry you’re reading kind of short stories you’re reading the first chapter of a novel you’re looking at a short film it’s the characters that we want and we’re
Talking about what they are like and what their behavior is usually so know those traits know all those personality works all that kind of vocabulary right personality and if they’ve done all that hard work you may as well get the full marks by making sure you don’t write a
Summary that is what we don’t want we don’t want when I’m correcting the leave insert I don’t want the summary of what happened I want you to address the words of the question at the start and at the end of every paragraph and then those same examples that would be a summary
For you anyway are irrelevant because you’re actually answering the question so no now poetry and again you know this is people will always talk about poetry in English and Irish I find it fascinating how they’re they’re so obsessed with it five options here and two will appear you would make the note
Again they haven’t repeated I think no no no poem has come up two years in a row no Pros has come up two years so what do I need to learn to handle the Poetry part of the papers okay well let’s start with the easy stuff first of
All you know most of the time they’re going to offer you a question on the life and the works of the poet I think there’s only there’s one poem that has no poets for un spal being phonic so for the other four it does have a poet um so because
Of that you need to know the life and the works and I would say make your life easy if you know the marking scheme the marking scheme clearly indicates you need to know the poet’s name you need to know one fact about his or her life one previous work they have composed and
Then finally another point is something about their life or something about their works so I’m big on this four sentences will get you your marks don’t write anymore it’s a waste of time spend your time and energy on something that’s more important now to to I loved this
About the nine mark question right where you’re saying don’t overwrite and you’ve just mentioned there are the four sentences you break that down I mean people you say students will start writing reams of stuff for this half a page and you’re like four lines do it I
Love this so tell us how I I mean the full name for example of the poet yeah the full name and like you get a mark for that oh you do get the mark for name getting the poet’s name correct and unfortunately if you get the poet poet’s
Name wrong and everything else is right you get zero so the poet’s name is very very important you have right yes so we got full name then another sentence about a piece of work they’ve done there’s another two marks there yes absolutely you will get marks for saying
Where they’re born so if you want to say so it’s not a big half page romage right no it should be done inside two lines if you know what you’re doing inside 30 seconds and spend your time and energy on the more difficult parts of the the question which would be the longer
Question if I’ll move on to that next yes because I was going to ask you like how much am I writing for paper to um what’s a good question uh I suppose it depends on handwriting uh big thing is when you start a new question first of
All I want a new page it’s clearly indicates that in the answer booklet so if you’re finishing reading comprehension there’s no short of paper like oh absolutely not it’s one time we are going to be you know careful with for your leave insert nice and tidy
Make it presentable um what I would say to students is probably two to three pages per comprehension as a minimum okay um for P for the pros question let’s say a page and a half to two pages for the Poetry that’s kind of a sweet spot isn’t it doesn’t feel overwhelmed
Remember for students if you’re preparing two A4 Pages we write in A4 Pages the answer booklet pages are smaller so it’ll look longer and that’s okay as well okay now let’s move on you mentioned there drama we had a little clip from onreal there Ry groy there but
You want students to be aware of the wording of questions to answer that question accurately yeah absolutely like there’s no problem having material pre-prepared like let’s be honest studying for any language you’re going to have material that’s pre-prepared and that’s absolutely fine the key thing is there is question they know right but
But they have to ask something around it you know we’re we’re not terribly mean people examiners we know you know how the system works and we understand it but there is a questioners are so nice I know they just want to give the marks
All the time and go on you got to answer the question like there’s a question there it’s not a suggested question where you like you can or you can’t answer you have to answer the question the question will be you know about a character in the play look it has to be
Moira Moira has to factor into it somehow Moira is the main character and you know everything else really revolves around so just know her know the person and just have the vocabulary ready to go around her exactly and the main thing again is you’re not writing a summary we
All know what happen start middle and end discuss the characters and for me I tell my students discuss the behavior of the characters tell me how they discuss the character to you means discuss the behavior of the characters absolutely yeah discuss what they do I don’t give
You a summary of what happened to Mor but tell me about her action I’ll give you an example poric is you know the the author of everything bad and Mo’s life in this play and and if you want to tell me exactly if you want to tell me he was
Meant to be a priest he was kicked out of the priesthood all that that’s not helping your grade that’s just summarizing who the character is because they know you’ve learned that off and you’re just exactly Focus about how he lies to her and he leads her on and he
Gives her fake promises ction of the actual story as opposed to telling the story okay can we talk about ordinary level for a minute because OB so many students do ordinary level key aspects of students should identify here for you what are they honing in now this do you
Think so paper one there is four questions they can write a blog they can write a store short story they can write a letter they can write a conversation what I get my students at ordinary level to do very simply is we learn five topics and I you know between these five
Topics it’s going to be an accident it’s going to be a game it’s going to be a concert um a theft and and a holiday okay you learn those five topics nine times out of 10 between the blog between the short story or the letter they usually appear and remember at ordinary
Level we want you to do well at ordinary level so if you learn off those kind of areas you’re going to be able to manipulate that into to fit the question if you learn about going to into paper one then your ashas and yeah if you
Learn about going on holidays to Spain a lot of that same vocabulary is going to be applicable for a trip to the guel okay once you get the weather yes BR you the hus and all that kind of malarkey okay exactly concern here always is that students are going to misinterpret a
Term you know that they’re going to get something wrong and then that’ll Hammer them all the way through the exam answer right what is your advice around that paper one and paper two are very different advice H paper one you really have to be careful paper one we we look
We really don’t want to give anyone a zero on the essay but it’s about Precision yes exactly so like last year’s I’ll give you last year’s examples example there’s the word there aore which means something that’s wrong unfair unjust um many students didn’t answer it it was the easiest question on
The paper it’s basically because of that term they weren’t sure and they didn’t go for it and look I I would say for paper one be cautious don’t jump in and answer something you’re not fully sure of because you could be punished yeah whereas on paper to you know the story
Of milish you know this the story of you know the poem gave you know what’s going on so you can take a good educated guess about what that question could mean based off what person but a paper W it can be about anything it’s about current affairs so who knows so
Just be careful on paper one whereas paper two you could draw maybe a bit of caution to the wind are you saying they’re not going to ask a madly trick question paper too no like you know it has to be based on what the story is
About okay so go for it with that anything else you want to throw into the mix um top tip my top tip for free on our podcast that thousands in a grind school for go on my top my top tip for Irish paper 1 the essay is they’ve load
Time they have an hour and 50 minutes right Irish paper 1 the essay make sure you stop and read over your material all the time don’t have mistakes in it because I get my students to stop after each power read over because at the end
Of any exam what does anyone want to do they want to find that door and they want to get out as quick as possible paper two there’s only five marks for grammar in each question and I’m really not docking you for your shavies and your eras I’m docking you for poor
Sentence structure so keep your sentence structure good and if there’s an odd shave or an uru or a fod missing on paper too it’s different emphasis will live okay love it listen Shan g m chain Academy Next up we switch our attention to physics and we have an old pile of the show not old man he’s a pal who’s been with us for a long time old man as well yeah the joy being in a podcast Studio nobody can tell K nobody can tell Kieran
Mills physics and applied maths from Doan Academy as well kieren great to see you back thanks EVN H now we’re going to start again the basics with you if you could take that question first that format that duration of the paper for students please well it’s a three-hour
Paper um 400 marks um it’s made up of two sections section A which is the experimental section and section B which is uh theoretical um I always tell students when they go into the exam don’t don’t read the entire paper really you’re going sit you get that from other
Subjects say sit down know I mean put your feet on the desk Sly yes you read the entire paper and you look beside you and someone’s already finished one question so um section n section B are mutually exclusive okay so there’s no point section A is also a little bit
Easier okay so it’s a nice kind of warmer up settle the nerves settle the nerves you know you’re just drawing graphs you’re drawing um label diagrams or whatever so it’s a lot easier um and it is a nice way to settle the nerves so I start off at section a um you’ve got
To do um three questions out of five okay um you’ve done these experiments in the lab hopefully so you’ll have a great knowledge a great um understanding of them um can you leave out any experiments um how did you know I was going to ask you that question yeah well
I just we’ll talk about that later actually okay well if you have an example from last year’s paper I think it was where you talked about um the example was draw a labeled diagram of the apparatus indicate the distance on your diagram I mean there’s a lot of
Fiddly work to be done too to get those marks so I’d say what are the essentials that I need to be able to do the experiments yeah and these are the essentials I wouldn’t even walk into the exam if I didn’t have these Essentials in my head okay and there’s three main
Essentials and the first thing you’ve got to have is a label diagram of every single experiment that’s it you just that you have to non every single every single experiment starts off draw a label diagram of the experiment so draw a label diagram of the apparat is used
That’s easy to do okay we’re talking about 25 experiments so learning 25 diagrams all fully labeled no problem no no problem at all then the second thing um you’re either going to have to draw a graph or do a calculation okay now they’ll always say they always use the
Word suable graph what does that mean um so that kind that’s important so you might let’s say do snail’s law okay which you’re familiar with of course and um they’ll give you a series of results of angles of incidence and angles of uh refraction I and or and if you draw a
Graph of I against or you’ll get practically no marks so you you need to know that I’ve got to find the sign of each angle okay and draw a graph of s i against sin R so that’s important so that’s essential information for every single experiment I’ve got to know
Exactly what is the suitable graph what does the graph look like and are you saying it’s eight to 10 steps per experiment is that a kind of a rough yard Teck well that’s the method yeah so you’ll never have to write out the method you might have had to write it
Out 20 years ago but not anymore so you don’t learn the method so you learn your you know what your suitable graph is or you may have to do a calculation and if that’s the case that’s a formula from your table book so you’ll know where
That is and then the last thing you’d need to know maybe three or four experimental details and what I mean by experimental details are errors and precautions precautions that you would take to make your experiment better or errors that may be in your measurements so no three or four of them and that’s
Your essential information don’t I tell students do not go into the exam Hall unless you have that that in your head and that’s section A nailed right that’s section A we head into section B which is let me just say a couple more things
About section A yeah me to got a h one here a little it yeah yeah we want to get our H1 don’t we of course you do so I’d say then you talked about the method earlier yes maybe 8 to 10 steps yeah I would read that a couple of times so
Know it right yeah know don’t don’t learn it you won’t have to regurgitate it on the day in the exam you won’t have to write it out but just know and be familiar with it and if you’ve done the experiments in the lab uh that’ll be a
Great help as well because I just might ask you something about the experiment how did you measure the mass of ice for example okay um you’ll just know that and then the last thing I would do to get your H1 would be just practice there two leaving C questions on all those 25
Experiments and then you’ve practically nailed it has the course changed recently or has it been in its current state for quite a while oh it’s been in its current state since um I think 2003 okay because what happens is when I talk to teachers like yourself is sometimes they go looking
For the dark Corners in the curriculum you know there’s always going to be that little surprise you know what I mean with that kind of well there will be there will be of course and um you can never predict just because they haven’t asked it for 20 years doesn’t mean
They’re not going to ask us so when students give out and they go on the Joe Duffy show giving out about this and that because they 20 we encourage the well it’s in the syllabus so in the syab it’s in the syllabus so um it’s got to
Be done okay nail section A yes section B okay this is theoretical stuff talk to me about this so I finished section A I’m feeling happy now because I’m relaxed I’ve just drawn a few graphs I’m intersection B um this is I suppose the theoretical section um I’ve got to do
Five questions out of nine okay what’s my timing here now how much time do I have for this um I would have said for section A one hour okay Max so have two hours now that’s three that’s three yeah we have two hours left so that’s three from section A you’re talking about
Three questions 20 minutes max per question if you finish after 45 minutes don’t say I’m going to do another question just move on you can go back later and do your extra question if you want so I’m talking about two hours probably getting about 20 to 20 25
Minutes per question okay it’s actually quite generous um physics you’re not under the same kind of time pressure as something like applied mats um so I never hear this is the ad for physics go on I’m liking it go on yeah yeah I it’s a dottle really
Physics when I give my talk yeah it sounds so easy you make it sound it sounds so easy the next thing I would do so after I finish section A is again I’m not going to read the paper I’m going to go straight to question six okay I want
Every student in the country to do question six why question six is made up of 12 short questions you’ve got to do any age out of 12 and it’s really short at the points you’re getting marks there for f along okay abely and I don’t even think about the timing of this I
Tell students go to question six it’s Parts ATL write down on your paper part A skip four lines Part B all the way down to part L and be filling it in throughout the exam it’s a great way of Jing your memory about all kinds of things it’s definition is about the
Entire course mechanics electricity modern physics is all in there so you might say okay I can do four right now and later on I’ll go back to when I finish another question I’ll go back to it you just keep going back to it you I think you have to do that question it’s
A nice nice question what else am I doing so then after that then you’ve got four questions left so now you’re picking now you’ll read through you’ll obviously be looking for your favorite questions you know your electricity or mechanics or whatever it is question seven is always a big question on
Mechanics so if you’re a student who loves mathematics and loves applied maths you’ll know yourself that’s your yeah you’ll gravitate towards that that’s where you you’ll want to go uh but there’s other nice questions as well in there um the very last question question 14 is very nice I I always
Encourage students to do that as well um it’s a four-part question and you’ve got to do two out of four parts and they’re half questions so because they’re half questions they can’t really ask you anything too deep or involved like they couldn’t a full electricity question or
Full heat question so they’re a lot easier so it’s a nice question to do it’s very popular question it’s probably one of the best um answered question the most answered question on the paper okay what is your final tip Karen my final tip for physics students tearing their
Hair out um you make it seem so easy mind you yeah I do and it is actually the paper in the last few years has is quite nice it’s um it’s testing a lot of skills it’s actually designed it’s actually it’s actually designed very well my final I would like students also
To do what’s called the STS science technology in society okay or what I say to students the real life physics question that sounds great yeah it’s a nice question um it’s probably question 13 okay though they might move around a little bit okay um and it gives you a
Lovely paragraph a paragraph about um the disaster in Chernobyl okay or something like that and you read the paragraph and then you usually have eight parts to do okay and often two answers may be contained in the paragraph So it’s a nice question to do so if you’re clever about it that can
Work really well for you okay Karen Mills thank you so much for joining us today with your expert eye and notes and views on physics for us um and Karen Mills joins us from the Dublin Academy of Education I’m kind of torn today because G day is really a favorite of mine but art is also another favorite of mine but now kieran’s made me think physics is actually my favorite so uh we’re joined Now by Dean Kelly from The Institute of Education Dean you have a job now to
Make me fall back in love with the art paper because physics now is is champing that for me but you mean art is amazing at this point there’s so many components to it let’s go straight into it the Practical of course students are KN deep
And all that talk to us about that so the Practical students yeah if anyone’s listening and uh they’re worrying and they’re kind of coming to the nitty-gritty part of of getting it all done there’s probably students out there stressing at the moment uh my biggest
Piece of advice to them it would be to get out of that booklet finish off what you need to H finish don’t worry about having everything perfect I see this even with my own students they want everything perfect they want it like a magazine it doesn’t need to be a
Magazine it’s a workbook it’s a Sketchbook if you’re worried about it not looking perfect feel free to jump on the internet look at Old Masters and look at the sketchbooks they have coffee stains they have little crazy notes which everybody loves right I mean one
Of my favorite things was a we had the some of the da Vinci cesses in National Gallery a few years ago and one of my favorite little moments of those sketchbooks H is when you we we kind of have D Vinci on this on this pedestal
He’s kind of he’s he’s a de in art but he has these fantastic little drawings of cats and cats licking themselves and hissing and and you get an idea of the person the person kind of dling like exactly and he’s clearly now he’s probably ruminating on war machines and
Fortresses and paintings that he’s going to test out but there he is looking at a cat in the corner having a giggle to himself so don’t be scared bring that joy into it as what your ideas into the booklet stop worrying about creating this perfect thing it’s not meant to be
Perfect it’s meant to be an exploration it’s an investigation show that you’re trying things out dare to fail it’s okay to make mistakes I know people are terrified at the word fail but it’s okay to make mistakes in fact the examiner will want to see you trying things out
Put that paint in try different types of paint your watercolors your gouache your your acrylic paint try out the different things don’t worry so much as you progress it will get better as is life H H but it’s important to put those things in there so that’s my biggest piece of
Advice at the moment for people working on the booklets finish up those booklets now is um you know and and get on to the final artifacts you’re kind of worrying about if you’re starting to get bogged down it’s it’s kind of even from when I
Make artwork H you can get to a certain point with a painting for example where I can keep working on this and I could spend another another 10 hours on it and get it it’s 1% better but those 10 hours are much better spent on something else
So move on because it’s not a gallery piece you are in an exam structure be aware of that it’s bit like portrait Arts of the year the clock is ticking and trying to get the nose finished or whatever you a lot to do examiner recognizes that the examiner appreciates
That you’re under time pressure to finish and it’s the recommendation is 30 hours that’s a lot of work to get done on in within 30 hours of class time and people have lives and people are ill and you know H they’re busy order subjects and projects and everything else there’s
A lot to balance there and they know that they know so stop worrying so much about doing everything perfect move it on okay I’ve done my booklet okay and I’m now moving into the exam Hall part talk to me about the section a section B
Section c uh section A is it fair to say it’s the equivalent of the Unseen poetry in the English exam that’s exactly how I would describe it oh you see amazing amazing you have super research and it’s we call it today’s world but it’s it is just a case of uh
It’s just like d see in poetry on so how long is this paper then it’s what two hours the entire paper two and a half hours so um in the old system in the old way kind of meet a you boss same as the old boss um you would want to take about
45 minutes per section so section ABC Now oddly enough I would recommend starting with b and c why uh because they are your Chunky essays they’re the kind of two-page essays that you want to do now obviously as as we heard earlier on um you know depending on the size of
Your writing the diagrams you’re going to use um and when I note diagrams in the new system you don’t necessarily have to provide diagrams however when you um want to describe something let’s say like a corbal vaulted ceiling in new granch it’s very difficult to write down
A paragraph of what that looks like much easier to just draw a picture hey it’s the art example exactly Illustrated and sometimes when you make a drawing it reminds you oh that’s that thing and that’s oh yeah okay oh yeah and then you can you kind of get double marks and if
You think about it ding ding ding look double mark H so that’s a nice cheeky way of kind of helping you helping yourself remember things so I would say do the two essay questions first um if you haven’t finished your question and you’re kind of com to the end of the 45
Minutes put a pen in it listen can we say that for all the papers like there comes a point I have this conversation again going stop move on and go back 100% you’re killing yourself and you know you know you’re losing time on another SE exactly you can go back go
Back down to your your today’s world the new section A and do those short questions now on that note and let come back again and again there are seven questions seven short questions now short sometimes it’s a few words and sometimes it’s a small paragraph um you
Only have to answer five of them you can answer more if you want but you only have to answer five a lot of people spend more time pulling their hair out you know I used to have some of that and uh they just just do the five questions
And again if you have the time left you can go back and uh have a go at your essays can I ask about newrange yes of course you have tricks for new Grange I gather uh okay so it’s one of the potential questions that could come up
Um there’s a few pneumonic devices this is about section c Ireland and the exactly Ireland and the wild world and of course there’s lots of other sections like the manuscripts and the high crosses and all that jazz however let’s say you’re doing um new Grinch or now
And out there are ways of trying to remember the information so how many times does a winter solstice uh happen in a year you might think and of course the answer is it happens once a year and how many weeks are there in a year there
52 so that might be a way of remembering that curbstone you’ve got curbstone one and you’ve curbstone 52 they’re the two most important curbstones just using that knowledge of 52 weeks in a year simple little pneumonic devices like that um uh I mean artst you’ve to find the things
That work for you so there are there are principally let’s say when we talk about newrange you have to be aware of that there are other megalithic tombs to be that you might be asked to talk about and our locations and that’s important um so you might get a question again we
Don’t know what the questions are exactly but you might be asked to compare two megalithic tombs to different ones from from different locations for example uh so you I I like to make up a little story where you’ve been caught robbing uh a potato based uh
Fried food which is a wedge okay just for whatever reason so this is what I use you’ve been caught rubbing wedges and now you have to go in front of the judge and he resides in a court so you’ve got wedge there which is a wedge
Tomb and you’ve got a court which is a court car uh and you’ve Tak the long walk now down the passage uh and to get through that passage you have to go through the doorway which is another word for portal so you’ve got portal do you’ve passage
Grave or passage to you have your wedge wedge Tob and you have your cord card you have all those in that little story but they key words but even that little word like if you say the court the visualization of that though is really helpful and that’s again a strategy you
Can apply right across the exactly it’s a lovely and the reason I do it is because I don’t have that magical power some people have that they can just remember things I have to do that in you know it’s a busy paper there’s a lot to
Cover in it what what is the advice around it like what are they looking for from that those anwers okay so with the now and I think the the examination has improved big time I think the new changes genuinely think the lovely changes have been made they’ve made the
Exam more connected to Practical Art and that you understand the language of art if I was to open up a car and i’ know very little about cars and if I was to start pointing at different you know parts of the engine block and you know the
Battery after I get lost very quickly that’s the thing that makes it go whizbang whatever it might be H in art our particular language this particular language you need to be able to use you need to be able to talk about the art elements and design principles so no
Matter what question you’re doing yes you must be able to talk about the art elements and design principles and your teacher will cover this with you the teacher will talk about these things so for example you got obviously with art elements you you a line color tone texture shape and pattern and obviously
With your design principles you’ve got composition balance symmetry maybe Rhythm contrast last linear perspective for example those are kind of design uh principles so once you’re able to apply those to anything so you just have to be able to whatever image you might come across that you can use though the
Language of art so you’re just you’re approaching the paper with enthusiasm you’re drawing and all that but there are key terms that it’s technical as well yes I mean the simplest way of thinking about anything in in visual studies which we call now art history is to think um good oldfashioned you know
Where when How was you get what those basic questions apply them to anything who made it when did they make it why did they make it you know so that’s a you know if you can answer those kinds of questions that’s a way of again accessing those art elements and design
Principles okay final tip for art students as they prepare for that written exam I would say in the written exam stay till the end really don’t leave early it’s it I promise it sounds a a long time to say two and a half hours it is incredibly fast it flies by
Stay in take the whole uh time available use your coloring pencils and your diagrams um but yeah stay in do the exam to its completion okay have a rapid far question for the three of you okay Shane what is the joy of and GAA poer though
In your view Inspire them I I think it gives people a great opportunity to express their language and and show the skills that they’ve developed over 14 years use it as a platform show show what you have and you know enjoy what you do really that’s the amain thing
With it 10 out of 10 for you come to you last e Karen Mills the Joy doing physics to Joy this exam students well it’s also in their rooms going oh yeah it’s also called natural philosophy so you’re exploring the universe you’re trying to understand the universe things like
Gravy and electricity so it’s absolutely fascinating um like I don’t just teach it to the exam I like to try and Inspire and uh and students who love physics they want to ask the questions anyway obviously we have to prepare them for the course sure but we go outside that
As well so it’s a great it’s a fantastic subject for anybody to study Jaan art come on Art um they get to explore themselves I mean they get to know who they are and what they’re about and they do that through other people’s Creations there you go can’t ask for better than
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