Ireland’s Premier English Resource for Junior & Leaving Certificate.
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The subject everyone sits. The one almost nobody tops.
Junior Cycle and Leaving Cert. Every number below is from the State Examinations Commission.
students sat English in 2025.
The average H1 rate across all Leaving Cert Higher subjects was 11.7%. English is less than half of that, and has been the lowest of any major subject three years running.
SEC provisional national statistics, 2025of a Leaving Cert essay is marked on judgement, not rules.
Purpose, Coherence and Language are 30 marks each. Spelling and grammar are 10. Junior Cycle works the same way, against descriptors instead of a key. Maths has an answer. English has an examiner.
Learning an essay off costs you marks.
Not our opinion. The Chief Examiner’s, on English.
“Formulaic approaches … can hinder candidates by inhibiting their engagement with the terms of the questions and curtailing the expression of independent opinion.”
State Examinations Commission, Chief Examiner’s Report, English
Hope for the best, or force one memorised essay. The scheme is built to catch both.
We train the judgement, then show you how to write it.
The free site gets you to understanding the text. Plus gets you to producing the answer. Both cycles, same standard.
- Chapter-by-chapter notes for every novel and play
- Templates for every functional writing task
- CBA1 and CBA2 worked samples, graded
- Final Exam answers, Higher and Ordinary
- PCLM breakdown for every question type
- The same question at H1, H2, H3 and H4
- AI feedback tagged to the marks you are losing
- Every prescribed poet and text, 2027 and 2028
“I was paying €50 a week for a grind and still felt lost. This gave me a system I could actually follow. My mock came back as a H2.”
“The structures changed everything. I stopped guessing how to write answers and the marks went up straight away.”
“My daughter’s English teacher recommended it. She went from a H4 to a H2 in her mocks. The notes were the difference.”
A grind costs €50 an hour. This is every text, every poem, every paper, both cycles. Cancel in one click.
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