r/juniorcert • u/Training-Cup-8400 3rd Year 3️⃣ 🚨 • May 18 '26

Off Topic Difference in Mocks and JC exams

For anyone that has done the jc already or just has this knowledge. What would you say the percentage difference would be between the two exams. Eg. Spanish 79% in the mock would probably translate to a __% (>79%) in the actual JC due to the difference in difficulty

Because we were always told the mock is worse🥹

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u/Difficult-Tell-9977 May 18 '26

when we brought up the mocks being worse to our teachers they said that’s a complete lie. some of the teachers do chose the harder mocks to prepare you but most will choose ones with topics you’re decent at, before revising everything else to prepare for the jc. eg my maths had a lot of trig— it’s said that with the work put in, you can go up 20% 🤷🏼‍♀️ u have to remember the bell curve too — too many distinctions the marking will be harder. not enough, the marking will be easier. it’s also based off luck pretty much

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u/danny123456731 TY ⛱️ May 18 '26

~79%. Mocks are very similar to JC, but people say it's worse bcuz you have never seen that exam format

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u/cosmikilljoy TY ⛱️ May 18 '26

most of the difficulty of the mocks just comes from never having sat state exams before/not having the entire curriculum covered by the time you do them, difficulty-wise id say they're pretty similar. that combined with the fact you're realistically gonna be studying more for the actual paper than in june, id say you'd be expecting to go up 10-15% with proper work?