Author: Bernard O'Rourke

It’s here – the Leaving starts tomorrow.  Two years of hard work.  A time to appreciate all the hard work.  And a time to remember to believe – in all…

Time passes.  But time is typically experienced as passing very quickly in an exam.  The pressure to get through all the questions changes the experience of time.  Pressure makes it…

Being in an exam hall sometimes does strange things to an exam taker.  Thinking can become difficult and thought-lines can get, well, tangled. One of the most common magic tricks…

Anyone taking an exam should understand sports psychology.  Learning how to PERFORM is key to delivering on the day, whether that be in a race or in an exam.  Knowing…

At a time of challenge or anxiety around the crunch time of exams, how a student is talking to her- or him-self can be very revealing.  It is something to…

With 10 days to the start of the Leaving, students will exhibit lots of different strategies.  Mostly, everyone is trying to put everything into getting ready.  The organized ones are…

Exams are familiar to us all.  The system of exams in Ireland is referred to as ‘external terminal examinations.  By ‘external’, it means that the exams are conducted by an…

In the exams run-in period, parents often report that they don’t know how to talk to their son or daughter.  At times, the son or daughter is not wanting to…

Exam Season is here, again – 2 weeks away now . . . And 120,000+ parents – 60,000+ students – are ‘Doing the Leaving’.  Another 120,000+ parents are doing the…