A free hub for Junior Cycle and Leaving Cert students built around The HANLON Exam Method™ — a six-step routine answer that turns a basic answer into a Distinction one. For students, teachers and parents.
The same study skills, framed for the way each audience uses them.
Learn the six-step HANLON Exam Method™, build a study plan that fits your week, and stop blanking in exams.
Use the HANLON Exam Method™ to give your students a shared vocabulary for answer quality — Basic → HANLON → Bradán Feasa.
How to support your child's study habits without becoming the homework police. Quiet, practical tips.
A six-step exam-answer routine designed for Irish JC and LC students. Move beyond basic answers to Distinction-level work using a process you can apply in any subject — Spanish, Maths, History, English, Business, Science.
Most study advice is generic. These are the five moves that consistently lift a student's exam answers — drawn from the HANLON Exam Method™ and from working with Irish JC and LC classes.
The hardest part of studying is sitting down to start. Sort that, and the rest follows.
Use the same six-step exam-answer routine in every subject. Examiners reward structure — this gives you one. Basic → HANLON → Bradán Feasa is the answer-quality ladder we use throughout HCP resources.
Flip through the HANLON Exam Method™ and our student checklist — designed to be read on a phone, on a laptop, or projected in class.
The six-step exam-answer routine, explained for students. Read it once to learn the framework — then keep it open beside you when you're answering past papers in any subject.
Six tickable checks every answer should pass before you submit. Open this on your phone before you hand a written task up — or print it and stick it in your copybook.
A weekly plan with realistic targets beats a daily timetable you'll abandon. Build in space for the subjects you avoid, not just the ones you enjoy.
Reading your notes makes you feel ready. Writing exam answers actually makes you ready. The work is the writing.
The night before isn't for learning new material. It's for protecting what you already know.
The single biggest predictor of how a child performs in exams is whether home feels like a place where studying is possible — not whether you're sitting beside them checking their work.
A few low-effort things that genuinely help:
Tip: If your child is studying Spanish or another language, reading even a few pages of the same book signals you take it seriously — without needing to know the language.
Free downloads and pages on this site that pair with the study skills above. This section is updated regularly to add more resources.
Checklists, sample answers, and HANLON Exam Method™ one-pagers — PDFs you can print at home or share with a class.
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