There is just under a week to go until the first Maths exam in this year's Leaving Certificate. Here are some study tips that may help you this week. "Little and often, that's the key with Maths," ...

Treat your revision as a daily workout for the brain and you'll succeed The vast majority of Leaving Certificate students opt to take the ordinary level exam, typically in excess of 35,000 students ...

Maths is notoriously one of the more difficult subjects in school, with what seems like countless elements to it. From interest, to currency, from algebra to fractions, geometry, Pythagoras and so on, ...

It's certainly no pushover, so may the force be with you for... Applied Maths is a subject which is ideally suited to any student who has a keen interest in maths and physics. Students are introduced ...

IN A reversal of recent trends, the number failing maths in the Leaving Certificate has fallen dramatically, while record numbers opted to take the subject at higher level. While the number failing ...

Data released with this year's Junior Certificate exam results shows a growing number of Irish students are choosing to study Maths at a higher level. The results show a small but significant rise in ...

With a record low number of students – about one-in-six – expected to take the honours papers next Friday and Monday, moves to adopt the plan favoured by Education Minister Mary Coughlan are being ...

The 20,040 students entered with the State Examinations Commission (SEC) for the honours papers are among nearly 121,000 preparing to begin the Junior and Leaving Certificate this morning. The papers ...

Sir, – Seán Byrne (Letters, November 7th) bemoans "the absence of matrices, calculus and complex numbers" from a "modern maths exam". Continuing, he states, "The topics listed were never on the ...