Leaving Cert & Junior Cert
Nobody is actually bad at maths. They just missed something.
Usually it is one specific thing, two or three years back, and everything built on top of it has been shaky ever since. Online grinds, one to one or in small groups, anywhere in Ireland.
10+ years teaching · online, every county
What the Leaving Cert maths numbers actually say
Higher Level maths is the most consequential subject choice in the Leaving Cert, and the figures show why students feel the pressure around it.
- 11%
- got a H1 in Higher Level maths
- Down from 12.6% in 2024, and well up on 6.4% in 2019
- 27.3%
- got a H1 or H2
- Of the 23,450 students who sat Higher Level maths in 2025
- 36.3%
- of students now sit Higher Level
- Up from 15.8% in 2011, a 130% rise since bonus points came in
- 25
- bonus CAO points for Higher Level
- Awarded for 40% or above. 22,183 students earned them in 2025
National figures, 2025 exam sitting. Sources: RTÉ, Leaving Cert 2025 results, RTÉ Brainstorm, 2025. The State Examinations Commission does not publish results by county.
Where are you in the course?
How the grinds work
- (i)
Find the break point
Almost nobody is bad at maths in general. There is a specific place where it stopped making sense, often years earlier. The first session finds it.
- (ii)
Rebuild from there
No point drilling calculus if the algebra underneath it is shaky. We go back far enough that the new material has something to sit on.
- (iii)
Then work the papers
Past paper questions every week, marked the way an examiner marks them, so you find out where you are losing marks you have already earned.
One to one, or a small group
Neither is better. They suit different students, and the honest answer about which one fits usually comes out in the first conversation.
One to one
A full hour on whatever is actually blocking you, at whatever pace that takes.
Small group
Small groups of students at the same level, working the same papers. Cheaper per hour, and some students work better with others around them.
max 6 students
Every county in Ireland
Grinds are online, so where you live makes no difference to what you get. A student in Clifden and a student in Rathgar sit the same paper and get the same hour.