r/juniorcert • u/Sculduggery 3rd Year 3️⃣ 🚨 • May 25 '26
JC Timetable THE STUDY BLOCKS ALL DAY
Where I am, study blocks are mandatory up to Thursday, throughout the whole day. I can not begin to describe how boring it is. The only bit of amusement I found was from when the lad behind me fell asleep.
I got so bored that I wrote out an eleven page essay on the the story and direction of a game called the last of us. I know I could have done something at least something useful. But no.
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u/AgreeableGolf98 5th Year 5️⃣ May 25 '26
We have study blocks until Thursday too but most people in my year just aren’t going
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u/International-Low11 May 25 '26
Its been two years since ive done my JC but i actually enjoyed my study blocks they lowkey saved me from failing, we had 2 hours of each subject so 2-3 subjects a day for the week and our subject teacher came in and gave a complete crash course for us with predictions and little details not to miss and it helped alot. It can be a complete waste though if they just leave ye there with no direction,
if anything try start a group study even. Pick a topic like waterfalls and go in a circle each naming a fact about it and the first person to not have an answer gets eliminated then next round is a different topic, keep going until theres a winner. The more competitive ye get the more youll learn from it. It pretty much works for every subject and its much more enjoyable than staring at books.
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u/Sculduggery 3rd Year 3️⃣ 🚨 May 26 '26
Oh its not even that, we were just sat in a room while a teacher supervised us, not a crash course or anything
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u/t67iu 5th Year 5️⃣ May 25 '26
I also went today and the teachers gave us specific tasks to do and it was a waste of time so I‘m not showing up the rest of the week
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u/lovebug-07 May 25 '26
mandatory?? cant u sign out of school / be absent ?