This is your big year and with that comes ambition and opportunity. At this point, many students are working well and are settled back into school.

Yeats College Galway offers a 2-day HPAT Preparation Course for external students. This comprehensive and intensive course which takes place over a weekend, November 25th and 26th.

We would like to congratulate all students on receiving their CAO offers this year. This is the culmination of a lot of hard work and dedication.

This year, 56% of students achieved 500 points or higher. A magnificent 17% scored over 600 points, which is an amazing achievement.

Overall, this year’s paper was a fair paper with less mixing of topics than previous years. A well-prepared student would have welcomed this exam. This was a nice paper which allowed the students to show off their knowledge of Physics and not seeking to catch anyone out.

Overall, a fair paper with a nice choice of questions which students were happy with.

In this year’s paper, students had a similar situation to the traditional Leaving Certificate DCG paper with the usual set amount of core questions A and B being assessed. The only change this year was Section C, being only assessed on one studied question rather than two.

A fair paper that followed the layout of previous years and held no big surprises. Students who were well prepared and had spent time practising previous exam questions would have been happy and with the choices available on both sides of the paper and with the phrasing of questions.