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RTÉ News
06-06-2025
- Science
- RTÉ News
Leaving Cert Reaction: How did Ordinary Level Leaving Cert Maths add up?
Jean Kelly from Dublin's Institute of Education is here to share her thoughts on the 2025 Leaving Cert Ordinary Level Maths Paper 1 exam. She is contributor to RTÉ Study Hub, and we have her expert tips from the show to help you prepare for Paper 2. This content is from their Leaving Cert Analysis series. You can watch Jean's video up top and read on for more insights. Jean says: "This paper had everything thrown in or at least as much of the syllabus as they could possibly fit in to just 10 questions. Students would have been surprised by the sudden jumps between topics. A question could start in algebra in Part A, move to calculus in Part B and rates of change in part C. Many might find this lack of uniformity gave them a bit of whiplash as they had to quickly adapt to new areas of the course on the fly. "However, parts of the paper were lovely; not inaccessible at all, but you really needed to think. Questions had wordy window dressing to mask simple techniques that students would have already known. If you read carefully and pieced out the relevant material, you were flying, but you needed to know your concepts to make that call." "Students really did need to read the question over and over to get a sense of what they are asking. Each part of a question might have a new story element to be disentangled from central mathematics, so questions often didn't build on each other. As a result, some students will have found the more purely mathematical questions easier and so may have preferred the traditionally harder Part Bs to the Part As. One shock will be the appearance of Area, Volume and Nets of a 3D object in Q10 Section B as this is usually preserved for Paper 2. "There were lots of opportunities to get marks and secure their grades, but it was definitely exam that, at first glance, might have fallen outside of some students' comfort zones."
RTÉ News
05-06-2025
- General
- RTÉ News
Leaving Cert Maths Ordinary Level exam tips with Jean Kelly
Study Hub guest Jean Kelly, from Dublin's Institute of Education, is here to share her expert knowledge with students preparing for Leaving Cert Ordinary Level Maths. In the video up top she runs through Paper 1 and 2 with Study Hub host Maura Fay. Jean looks at what might come up and the best ways for students to get set. Jean also shared six videos full of great advice and tips for Leaving Cert students sitting the exams with RTÉ Learn. Jean has a wide breadth of experience in teaching Leaving Cert Ordinary Level Maths to students of all abilities and has been teaching in The Institute of Education for over 20 years. Over that time, Jean has developed an unmatched track record in helping students through the Maths syllabus and brings a refreshing approach to the explanation, clarification and tuition of the Maths syllabus.
RTÉ News
31-05-2025
- General
- RTÉ News
Leaving Cert Maths Ordinary Level study tips with Jean Kelly
Study Hub guest Jean Kelly, from Dublin's Institute of Education, is here to share her expert knowledge with students preparing for Leaving Cert Ordinary Level Maths. In the video up top she runs through Paper 1 and 2 with Study Hub host Maura Fay. Jean looks at what might come up and the best ways for students to get set. Jean also shared six videos full of great advice and tips for Leaving Cert students sitting the exams with RTÉ Learn. Jean has a wide breadth of experience in teaching Leaving Cert Ordinary Level Maths to students of all abilities and has been teaching in The Institute of Education for over 20 years. Over that time, Jean has developed an unmatched track record in helping students through the Maths syllabus and brings a refreshing approach to the explanation, clarification and tuition of the Maths syllabus.
Yahoo
11-02-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Proposed NIH cuts put local clinical research facility on edge
IRONDEQUOIT, N.Y. (WROC) — On the second floor of The Laurelton, a school-turned-office building in Irondequoit, Rochester Clinical Research, or RCR, studies the effectiveness of various medical treatments. 'RCR does multi-therapeutic trials,' said RCR's Jean Kelly. 'We do a lot of vaccine work, especially since COVID, but we also do other areas such as weight loss, cardio, metabolic, cholesterol, GI studies, dermatology, psychiatry, neurology, we do some pediatrics, we kind do a lot in different areas, which is nice.' Companies from around the country and world contract with RCR to conduct these trials. Kelly says the announcement out of the Trump administration that the National Institutes of Health, or NIH, is cutting funding to medical research projects has her worried. 'I think right now we're just waiting to find out (what's going to happen), but we have had some communication from our sponsors that things might be delayed just because they're reevaluating what those costs mean and what they might have to adjust on their end so it's a bit of an unknown for us,' Kelly said. The NIH funding cut was scheduled to take effect Monday and would remove money used for overhead costs like administrative work, but a judge paused the change in the 22 states that sued over the issue. New York State is one of those states. While Kelly, like everyone else in this field, doesn't know where all this is headed, she says even a delay in some of these trials can impact public health. 'A lot of our vaccine trials are very specific for timing so you want to try and get certain data points within a certain window like for example if we're doing a COVID or a flu trial, we want to study it now because now is when people are getting respiratory illnesses like that and that's how you can prove if that type of vaccine is effective. So, if it gets delayed even a few weeks during peak flu season, it could mess up what we're trying to study, which is obviously isn't ideal,' Kelly said. Kelly went on to say funding for overhead, or indirect, costs is essential in conducting clinical trials as they cover not just administration, but also facility maintenance and equipment, like a specialty freezer, necessary to meet strict medical standards. The University of Rochester Medical Center recently released a statement to News 8 regarding these funding cuts saying they're monitoring the situation and responding directly to individuals who might be impacted. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
