Start with the exam How it works
What the paper looks like, how it is marked, and how to study so the work counts.
Exam & MarkingThe paper structure, the four descriptors, and how the SEC marks your work.View notes
Study Skills & Mock PapersHow to study, planning under time pressure, and worked mock papers.View notes
CBAs & AssessmentCBA1 Oral, CBA2 Collection of Texts, and the Assessment Task explained.View notes
Your texts Novels, plays, film, poems
Notes on the texts your class is studying, grouped by genre.
NovelsPlot, characters, themes and quotes for the prescribed novels.View notes
Drama & ShakespearePlays and the Higher Level Shakespeare, scene by scene.View notes
FilmStudying a film as a text: characters, themes and technique.View notes
PoetryThe most-taught Junior Cycle poems, read line by line.View notes
Short StoriesThe stories teachers pick most, with themes and sample answers.View notes
Skills & language Every student, every year
The text-free skills that the comprehension and writing sections test directly.
Comprehension & WritingReading unseen texts and writing letters, speeches, articles and more.View notes
Grammar & LanguageParagraphs, sentences, punctuation and the conventions that score.View notes
Literary TermsA plain-English glossary of the terms you need in every answer.View notes
English Hub Plus
Get your Junior Cycle English sorted in one place.
Plus has notes, sample answers and short videos across the Junior Cycle course, so you write with confidence in your CBAs and your exam.