19 Mar 2020Over 60 free and paid online learning and study resources for all students
Section 1: General Study Resources - Leaving Certificate and Junior Certificate
Section 2: Specific Subject - Study Resources - Leaving Certificate and Junior Certificate
Section 3: Primary School Learning Resources
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Section 1: General Study Resources - Leaving Certificate and Junior Certificate
1. iRevise.com Free (For this month only)
iRevise.com specialises in providing study tools and premium study content for the Junior Cycle and Leaving Certificate students in Ireland. Use code STUDYCENTRE at checkout and you will have free access until you go back to school.
2. Access to Edco - The Educational Company of Ireland - for Junior Cert and Leaving Cert students - Free
In support of students, teachers & parents during this challenging time, simply log in to their website with any of the below username & password combinations to gain FREE access to our e-books & digital resources.
Junior Certificate:
- Email: jcedcobooks
- Password: edco2020
Leaving Certificate:
- Email: lcedcobooks
- Password: edco2020
For any queries email support@edcolearning.ie
3. Pocket Papers App - Free
Fantastic study app with over 40 Leaving Certificate and 25 Junior Certificate subjects included.
4. Studyclix - Free/Paid
One of the most popular of Ireland’s study websites, it offer notes, videos and a forum for students preparing for the Junior and Leaving Cert. The basic site is free, while the rest is paid-for. Discount code: HOMESTUDY for €10 off.
5. Homeschool.ie - Paid
Homeschool.ie is an online grinds service for Primary, Junior and Leaving Certificate students. Discount code: STAYSAFE for €20 off any course (reducing price to €80 per subject)
6. Protutor - Free
Protutor is running a series of free webinars on Leaving Cert accounting topics aimed at fifth and sixth years next week.
Non-profit site with provides free video tutorials on a wide range of subjects. Brilliant resource for both primary school and Leaving Cert students.
Irelands No.1 Online Grinds Provider. Pricing starts at €25 a week.
9. Surviving the Leaving Cert - Free
Study notes provided by past Leaving Cert students covering a wide range of subjects.
10. Studynotes.ie - Free
Students and teachers can use the free platform to share their notes and resources.
11. 625points.com - Free/Paid
Study plans and high quality sample answers created by past students who achieved 625 points so that you don't have to reinvent the wheel.
Shmoop provide study guides for a wide range of subjects and topics for Leaving Cert students.
13. The Dublin Academy of Education - Free
Free lectures are available for Leaving Cert students over at Dublin Academy of Education's YouTube channel.
14. The Learning Academy - Paid
An Irish maths teacher has developed an online teaching platform that allows secondary school students to learn from home.
Robbie Glynn, a Swords-based maths teacher, has launched The Learning Academy, which allows teachers to provide live classes to students from a remote location. This comes as the Covid-19 outbreak has forced schools around the country to close.
The platform offers grinds and classes in most subjects as well as features such as live whiteboards and a facility for students to post questions anonymously.
Origin Tutors are offering free online math group class as an initiative to help students during the COVID-19 outbreak. It's on every Tuesday at 7pm for LC and Friday at 2pm for JC through Microsoft Team. Over 50 students have already signed up.
Section 2. Specific Subject - Study Resources - Leaving Certificate and Junior Certificate
Adam Kelly, a Leaving Certificate student who won the top award at the prestigious BT Young Scientist & Technologist of the Year competition in 2019, has compiled the below list of online study resources for Leaving Certificate students. Go follow Adam on Twitter as he provides study resources, up to date information and general advice that is invaluable to any student (hopefully) sitting their exams this summer.
If you have any other suggestions, questions, or comments, please send these to adamkelly2201@gmail.com. Keep up to date with Adam's latest online study resources here.
Mathematics
1. UCD Leaving Certificate Maths Videos - Free
UCD has created videos covering the entire Leaving Certificate higher and ordinary level mathematics course, and they are freely available. These videos are high quality, and are a great alternative to other paid resources
2. TheMathsTutor.ie - Free/Paid
An online platform for Leaving Certificate mathematics including videos, automatically graded exercises, and worked past paper solutions which covers the entire course. This website is primarily a paid service with some free resources,
3. Miss Keegan’s Math Videos - Free
Another YouTube channel featuring free videos about a wide range of Leaving Cert Maths questions. Make sure to look at the playlists to find videos grouped by topic.
4. ExamRevision - Free/Paid
The entire Junior Certificate/Cycle course is complete in short video tutorials which make it easy for the students to understand.
Biology
1. The Conical Flask - Free
A website covering the entire Biology course, featuring slideshows, notes and task sheets with questions and solutions. I highly recommend this resource for both students and teachers.
2. Mr C Biology - Free
Another incredibly comprehensive website containing notes, videos, mind maps, short questions, quizzes, mind maps, experiment videos and more. Make sure to have a look at this resource.
3. LeavingCertBiology.net - Free
Covering the whole Leaving Certificate Biology course, this website has high quality notes for every topic in the syllabus, along with interactive revision questions.
4. Biology Bugbears - Free
This YouTube channel is aimed at Leaving Certificate students and covers the whole course. This is a popular resource, and has lots of great videos.
This is a Google Drive folder containing short questions on almost all topics and it contains hundreds of questions per topic. Great for doing active revision of a topic after reading notes/watching videos.
5. KAYSCIENCE.COM - Free
KAYSCIENCE has over 100 Biology videos with embedded questions and answers.
Flashcards of all the key words and terms in each biology chapter
Applied Maths
1. Applied Maths Exam Solutions - Free
Solutions to every Applied Maths exam all the way back to 1980. To do well in Applied Maths, you have to do loads of exam questions, and this resource will help you become unstuck.
2. MathsPhysics.com - Free
A really cool website where you can run interactive simulations of the Applied Maths questions, so you can actually look at what’s happening. Includes simulations for connected particles, projectiles, relative velocity and impacts and collisions.
Geography
1. The Geography Page - Free
This website has some very high quality sample essays and notes and is an essential resource for geography
2. Eoin Hughes’ Geography Videos - Free
Great videos about leaving certificate physical geography showing formation of features and processes involved. Also contains videos about the Investigation coursework project
3. Eoin Hughes’ Geography Drive - Free
This is a geography teacher’s personal drive that they have shared containing all of their teaching notes. Some content is teaching focused but it is a good resource all the same.
4. Precision Revision - Free
This is a great resource for students looking for an alternative and exam focused approach to Leaving Certificate Geography. They have a comprehensive field work guide, sample answers for past paper questions and guides on exam technique. They also have freely available podcasts which can be found on popular podcast apps.
5. ExamRevision - Free
The website covers the entire Junior & Leaving Certificate course in short video tutorials.
History
1. LeavingCertHistory - Free
A pretty comprehensive website for Leaving Certificate History. Contains notes, information about the research project, revision guides and more. NOTE: at the time of writing, this website was down so I have linked to an archived version.
2. History teacher providing answers to concerns or questions on Twitter
Talk to Matt here.
Chemistry
1. The Conical Flask - Free
Probably the best resource on the internet for Leaving Certificate chemistry. Every topic on the syllabus is covered in detail with videos and slideshows, along with high quality notes and questions with solutions. I’d highly recommend this website to every Leaving Cert chemistry student.
2. Chemistry Teachers Reference Handbook - Free
While not suitable for everyone, for a student who wants more information about a topic or a teacher who is preparing material, this document is a comprehensive (600 page) guide to every single little bit of the chemistry course. Great if you want to dive deep into the subject whilst staying focused on the Leaving Certificate level content.
3. Mandatory Experiment Videos - Free
This YouTube channel contains every mandatory experiment on the chemistry course, and was created to accompany the ‘Chemistry Live’ textbook. The explanations are clear and the videos are a good resource for studying for Q1 to 3 in the exam
Irish
1. 2020 Sraith Pictiúr Notes by Studyclix - Free
Comprehensive notes for the Sraith Pictiúr created by Studyclix. These notes are at a H1 standard and are very clear, great for preparing for the oral
2. Gaelport Eolas - Free
A YouTube channel best known for it’s high quality videos of the poems on the Irish course, which you have to read in the oral. Watching these videos can help you get a handle on the pronunciation, so you can get full marks in this part of the exam.
3. McCGaeilge.com - Free
Resources on all aspects of the Leaving (and Junior) Cert Irish course, suitable for both higher and ordinary level. Everything from poetry to prose to phrases is on this website, definitely worth a look.
Physics
1. The Physics Teacher - Free
This is the resource for Physics students. It has notes on every part of the course, and is used frequently by students and teachers all over the country. Highly recommended.
2. Loreto Balbriggan Physics - Free
A list of all of the experiments and (more importantly) a large number of worked solutions to past paper questions.
3. Physics Teachers Reference Handbook - Free
Just like the aforementioned chemistry handbook, this is a comprehensive guide to Leaving Certificate physics, which goes into extreme detail. If you want to know more about an aspect of the course, or maybe you’re confused or want a deeper understanding, this is a great resource. However, keep in mind that this is aimed at qualified teachers!
4. C4 Science - Free
A YouTube channel with a large number of videos, notably including all of the mandatory experiments and the non-mandatory demonstrations performed.
5. MathsPhysics.com - Free
A really cool website where you can run interactive simulations of all 24 mandatory experiments within your browser. A great way to revise alongside watching the experiments performed on video.
English
1. LitCharts - Free
Large poster-style documents containing almost every comparative and single text on the syllabus and is a good resource for getting information on themes, issues, some scenes and characters.
2. Connemara Community Radio English Podcast - Free
A little known yet valuable resource, this is a series of podcasts covering a large amount of the material on the Leaving Certificate english course including poets, the single text and guidance on the essays. The podcasts feature teachers from the Institute of Education, and is an exam focused resource.
3. Hamlet: No Fear Translation - Free
A ‘modern translation’ of Hamlet, with a study guide that includes summaries, quotes, character descriptions and an analysis of the play. The ‘translation’ explains the more complex Shakespearean phrasing in an easy to understand way.
4. Gill Critical Poetry Notes - Free
An incredibly comprehensive set of notes on all aspects of the Leaving Certificate poetry course. Each poet is given a background, a general summary, and aspects of style etc. Each poem is also examined in detail, including style and various interpretations of the poem. A great resource for both students and teachers.
5. LeavingCertEnglish.net - Free
While this blog is no longer active, there is a very large number of articles which serve as a great guide to all aspects of the Leaving Certificate course. If you’re looking for tips, advice, notes or answers to you questions, you’ll probably find them on this website
Accounting
1. The Business Guys Accounting - Free/Paid
Accounting resources with notes, past paper solutions, questions grouped by type. There are also worked video tutorials available for €55, but there’s plenty of great great content.
Economics
1. Tutor School Economics - Free
This resource is a Leaving Certificate focused guide to economics, featuring high quality notes, sample questions/answers and news articles. This site also colates videos which help explain various parts of the course quite well.
2. The Business Guys Economics - Free
Comprehensive notes and grouped past questions, well worth checking out.
Technology/Engineering
1. TechnologyStudent.com - Free
Exercises and notes for Engineering and Technology students, the website design is a bit off putting but there is some really nice content here if there is something on the course that you don’t understand.
Wood Technology
1. WoodTheoryPractice.com - Free
A series of free topic presentations for students of Wood Technology. Great for study and revision.
2. MTW & Beyond - Free
A website with free resources such as links to exam papers and marking schemes, short answer exam questions and solutions, introduction to board drawing, Orthographic Projection questions and solutions, cutting list questions and a guide to JC coursework.
Construction Studies Technology
1. WoodTheoryPractice.com - Free/Paid
A series of free presentations of all 21 Building Details for students of Construction Studies. Great for study and revision.
Business
1. The Business Guys - Free/Paid
An exam focused website with notes, exam help (with tips, timing, answering questions etc) along with solutions to many questions. While most content is free (and there is a lot of it), there is some paid content available.
2. ExamRevision - Free/Paid
The website has all Junior Cycle & Leaving Certificate video tutorials for students studying Business. The videos are short and condense lots of information in a few minutes.
3. SGC Business - Free
A popular resource featuring a large collection of well made and freely available notes and powerpoints on the entire course.
DCG
1. The DCGist - Free
An amazing resource for the DCG project, showing you exactly what you need to do in order to get high marks. It also includes some nice videos on how to effectively study DCG, and a 12 week study guide for the exam.
2. GMIT Technical Graphics - Free
A playlist of high quality videos covering different aspects of the DCG course. Most of the ‘harder’ parts of the questions (the parts at the end of the drawing questions) are explained in a straightforward way, so that you actually understand the steps in the solution.
Politics And Society
1. Pol Soc Podcast - Free
This is a great resource for exam candidates, with podcasts and blog posts for students about Politics and Society with notes on each podcast available also.
Spanish
1. PANCOMIDO: Learning & Teaching Spanish - Free
A large selection of content is available on this blog with sample essays, exam advice for most aspects of the exam and sample opinion pieces, this resource is a must for Spanish students.
Section 3: Primary School Learning Resources
In support of students, teachers & parents during this challenging time, simply log in to their website with any of the below username & password combinations to gain FREE access to our e-books & digital resources.
Primary School
- Username: primaryedcobooks
- Password: edco2020
2. Twinkl.ie - Free/Paid
Created by teachers, ideal for home education, it has lots of appealing games, stories, worksheets etc. It is offering a free month’s subscription (enter offer code: IRLTWINKLHELPS)
3. Go Noodle - Free
Movement and mindfulness videos created by child development experts.
4. Khan Academy - Free
Non-profit site with provides free video tutorials in maths and reading.
5. IXL.com - Paid
Subscription-based learning experience that provides curriculum-aligned maths and English content from junior infants up to sixth year.
6. National Geographic Kids - Paid
Learn about science, geography and history
7. NASA Kids’ Club - Free
Child-friendly resource where kids can learn about science and space.
Best of luck with your study at home - we wish you great success in the upcoming exams!
