Tips for the Mocks 2026

- You're listening to the Study Clicks podcast, your number one source for junior cycle and leaving search tips. We make exams easier. (upbeat music) - Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Study Clicks podcast. And today is a very exciting episode because this is the first time that we're doing a podcast in person. - Yes, very exciting isn't it actually? - I'm so excited. - So if anyone who's new to the podcast, I'm Aaron. - I'm Andy. - And I'm Ashling. And we're all on the social media team and we're very excited to be here today in studio. - Yeah, we're all very nervous. But we've never, this is my first time ever seeing Aaron in person. It's a lot, it's not true. - That's not true. - But yeah, we're me and Aaron are very used to doing this in our bedroom. So yeah, this is going to be very interesting. I hope we will make for a better podcast experience as we'll be able to make a couple of keys. - Exactly, exactly. Rather than fighting with technology. - Yeah, 'cause it is. - We're just recording after the New Year, isn't we? - Yeah. - Yeah. - So speaking of New Year's, does anybody have any New Year's resolutions that they'd like to share? - I, I'll share mine. So I want to run more 5Ks, be consistent, but only 5K and no longer than that. - It's over. - Do you run 5K yesterday? - That's. - I'm not worried about luck. - Yeah, exactly. I just ran 5K here. - That is 5K more than me. So. (laughing) - Yes, I am thinking of Letterbox. And if that, this is something I was talking about last night 'cause I watched me before you. Has anybody seen that? - Don't really happen. - Yeah. - There's that before. - Real, dear. - Do you recommend? - Yeah. - Dear South films. - I would. - Okay. - I need to watch. - Yeah. - I feel like. - Letterbox is my favorite thing. - I love it. I feel like there's so many films that I just haven't seen that are like classics and everyone. Every time I tell people they're like, what? - Yeah. - Yeah, that's crazy. - I know what you mean. This is, for anybody who's not letterboxed is, it is like where you review films, after you've watched them and then you've like friends and stuff. It's like Instagram, but for a film reviewing, it's pretty cool. - It is really cool. - Yeah. - It's kind of like Godreads as well for a box. One of my resolutions is actually to read more. I, yeah, so Godreads is basically, you just like log your, the books that you read. - No, that's good. - That year. - Yeah. - It's like basically like Letterboxed. - Yeah. - Both of the books. - I was thinking about this the other day. I was hoping there was something like this. - Yeah. - This is great. - But yeah, because I used to be great at reading like back in COVID, I'd read like 30, 40 books a year. And then in the past like a year or two, I just like haven't read a single book at all. So I'm trying to get back into it, but it's going well. I started one at the beginning of the month and I'm already halfway through it. So. - What book you read? - It's called House of Hollow, I think. - What type of genre is it? - It's kind of like, not fully found to see, but kind of like there's like mysterious creatures and things. - The creatures love it. - Like Stranger Things. Anybody watching that? - I know. - Nally. - Good. - Did you watch it? - Did you watch it a lot? - No, I watched it a lot. - Oh, actually, it's a spoiler, but I feel like the villain, the way you kind of end it. - If you haven't actually click away now. - If you haven't already click away now. - So yeah, mock talk. - It's basically the real thing but just before the time. So I think it's important to note that the mocks are generally harder than the real exam. There are a lot more demanding of you than the state exams are. I mean in comparison, you have like three weeks for the leave and third anyway. Junior third is like over two weeks for the mocks. It's all squished into like a week, week and a half. You know, you know, break in between study or anything. - Yeah. - Did you guys with your state exams were yours like very pushed out? Or did you have like, like, did you have gaps in between your exams? Or were they all kind of one after each other? - My state exams were all pretty close together. I think I had music which was near the end. But I wasn't like one of the horrible, unharbled people. It was a terrible situation of politics in society. - You did politics in society. - Yeah. - I think it's, they've made it a little bit shorter now. But when I did it, it was like the 28th. Like it was so much. - Oh, yeah. - Yeah. I think now they've finished a couple of days earlier. - I think it depends to be honest on like what day of the week it starts. Or like when. - Oh yeah, possibly. - It falls when the calendar, but like mine. - Yeah, because I did it as well. And it was the last day of the exams. So I remember from mine, I had like, I don't know, like four or five subjects done. It was four, I think. And then I had a week until Spanish. And then I had another two days until music. And then I had like five days or something to politics. - So I load the gaps. - But I actually really liked that because well, no, I didn't study half as much as I liked you. I was like, okay, I'll get these in that other way. And I'm like nonstop study, but the client didn't happen. But also it was nice to not have like exam after exam after exam, which is like how it is in the mocks. - Yeah. - So in comparison, you know, like the real thing, you're probably going to have a lot more time. So there's no need to kind of panic about that. Like you really get breaks. Also, like you have uncovered the full course content at this point. Like I know for the likes of maths, I did higher level maths. I didn't know about you guys. But like in like January, February at this point, like we still had so much left to cover. Like we just about got the curriculum finished. So obviously there's going to be questions that you can't answer. You might not be too comfortable with. And that's completely normal. Did you guys find that like there was still a lot you had to cover at the time of the maths? - Yeah, I think it turned into the subject. I think like maths was horrible. I don't know if they ever actually finished the course of maths. Ever. - Yeah, that's actually one of my favorite jokes to make. That's what anybody knows they know. But yeah, I think it depends on the subject. Maths was really bad. And then some you kind of finish relatively early. But yeah, I was not a fan of the mocks. I don't remember them at all. I kind of managed to like put them away from my mind. I don't have any particular like huge mock experiences. Other than they were really useful because I felt like they let me know. When I got my mark back, I was able to see exactly what I need to improve on and all that kind of stuff. And be able to focus my study a little bit more. So I did find the marks actually really useful. What about you actually? - Yeah, I definitely found them helpful. Like I think they're a really great way to be able to like measure your progress in your subjects and see which subjects you should be spending more time on. Because like it's really easy to fall into the habit of just studying the subject that is your favourite subject loads. And neglecting some of them. So the mocks are like a great way to identify the ones that you need to focus on more. So I definitely think the mocks are a bit harder because if you haven't done the whole course, you have like less choice. Like I know like even economics are some of those subjects. You'll have a lot of choice within the questions. And if you haven't done the whole course in the mocks, you're like forced to do a couple of the questions, whereas the leading sort can be easier because you can like pick your favourite questions. Based on your like best topics and things like that. But yeah, I definitely find the mocks helpful. - Exactly. - There's a real learning curve as well for like time management and stuff because people don't really talk about that. Teachers a little bit, but like you don't have to do that. I'll see the exam in chronological order. And it's like what the things that you, like what calms you down when you go into an exam is it doing the questions you're really strong at? Or like is it the ones that like require the most writing? So you get them done then you're not as worried about them. It's like figuring out what's worse for you because everybody's different. So I found the mocks really useful. Like it's just about technique really and like this is the first time for a lot of people that they probably would have thought about how to actually go about answering the exam. Because I feel like so much emphasis is put on like actually learning the things for the test. And then like you get to the paper and it's like, you know, so much of it is about how you actually answer it. - Yeah. - And like what to look for or like the mocks, like sometimes, you know, it's better to start with questions that are how your mocks, etc. So it's really just kind of getting your head around the actual layout of the papers. Yeah, because I feel like I thought, you know, at that stage, like especially if you're in Leavensert, like it's such a hectic time, like you might even really start doing exam questions or anything like that yet. So the mocks is your first real indicator of what to expect. - It's really important, I think, about your, like we talk about mindset. Go in with the right mindset because you can make the mocks as useful as you want to make them or as like much of a burden as you want. So if you go in with a mindset of God, why do I have to do this? Or like this is going to get in the way of my actual study for the Leavensert. It's just going to be a complete waste of your time, your way better off thinking about, well, this is really useful, it's a great practice run. I can hone all the things I need for the actual Leavensert and view it as that. So mindset is important, everyone. - Yeah, they definitely are like a tool, like there's no point. Because ultimately what you get in your mocks doesn't matter for anything. So all they are is really a tool for you to be able to use in whichever way you find most helpful. - Yeah, like no one is going to remember what you got in your mocks. I don't even think I can remember what I got in my mocks, to be honest. - Yeah. - And did you guys get the marks by your teachers or by now? - I think a couple of them were talking about your teachers and a few of them were sent off. - Okay. - Yeah, same, I think. - Cars were our teachers. - Okay. - I feel like you could get marked harder by your teacher. Or you could get marked easier. - Oh, really? - Because my teachers were like, I really want you to focus on the fact that this was awful. And you can get better. And then some of them were like, I'm going to give them those little marks they feel great, but that's not going to happen. - I remember our music one. Our music teacher wanted us to do this like different mock paper that was like different from the kind of main mock company companies. And she sent it off to this specific place that the paper came from. And they came back with this whole page of really, really detailed feedback of theory that I'd never heard of in my life. And I was like, why didn't you? I just didn't understand any of it. I was like, oh my god, this is crazy. I think I went up four grades from my mock in music to the real thing. - Really? - Yeah. It really also just does depend on that who's American. And there's so many different factors that can influence the difference between the mock and the real thing. - Yeah, I definitely know because I remember my history teacher, I think, graded our mock. And I remember feeling as though he had specifically graded them more harsh so that we would push ourselves to do better in the actual thing and not kind of slack. Because you could, in a way, if you get a H1 something in your mock then be like, oh, it's grand. I've kind of seen people do that before. - I just kind of get about that. - Yeah, they're like, oh, well, I'm fine. I got a H1 and then they kind of dropped the ball of it. - Yeah, I do feel like it's a, that would be a tough place to be. And if you're like in a H1, I feel like I'd be fine. It's so hard to stay motivated. Even though some people will be like, okay, this is great. I'll just keep doing what I'm doing. But you almost want to get like, well, if you're a H1 student, you know, which some of us are. I mean, you want to get a H2 or H3 and be like, okay, I can get to the next level or whatever. But yeah, I think that is, people always talk about mocks actually being marked harder. And I do think that is the general consensus. - Yeah. - And I do think that is accurate. So don't panic. - Yeah. - The American schemes a lot of the time are also a lot tougher. I think for mocks, because I know we'd be looking back at them and they'd be like so specific. - Yeah. - Where it's like, I'm thinking of the likes of biology. I know, did you do biology? - I swear to say biology, yeah. - And like for, like in the actual, even so, in the exam questions, I accept like a much wider range of answers. And then the mocks that we're looking for is something like really specific. And it's like, okay, like you get into the swing of it, like answering the exam questions. And that sometimes doesn't pay off in the mocks, but it will in the real thing. So like, don't get too bogged down. It's like you miss out, if you lose out on a Mac, because you like forgot to include one word or something, because chances are that's not going to be the case in the real exam. - Yeah. - Yeah. - I think the mocks as well is like, very useful tool. And we keep talking about like mindset and how useful it is. But like, it'll be the first time that you've basically, it'll be the only time, unless, as I've always mentioned on these podcasts before, you should get a whole pass paper and do it at home, guys. And with the camera for that one, you get it and do it. Do it on the weekend, do it like two and a half hours and do a whole exam. But if you don't do that, I'm probably preaching that I probably never do it once. But I do think it's a great thing to do. But yeah, like, this is the perfect opportunity to literally sit in the room and do a two and a half hour exam. So like, this is the perfect prep, so you have to be ready for that. - Yeah. And I think when we talk about preparation as well, something that a lot of people are often really worried about when it comes to the exams and the mocks is running out of time. I think it's so important to be aware of the fact, like, you know, this is often the first time that you will have sat papers for certain subjects in their entirety. So like, you might have had a lot of practice actually doing the questions and, you know, some are more demanding than others. Like, the likes of English paper too, and you have to answer like so many questions and write so many pages. Like, it's only normal to run out of time. Like, it happens in the real thing. But like, especially at this point in time, like, you're not expected to get through the entire thing. You know, it's just practice and getting used to what is to come. Like, did you guys find that you run out of time with any of your mock exams? Yeah, so do you run a struggle? I think English is like, I feel like you never write that much until like the actual day of the English exam. So it's really hard to practice for English. I feel like, and then history, I don't believe you did history. I did history, yeah. There were like four essays or whatever. I've never written so many pages so fast. I'm like, don't do a joint writing. So my hand was like dying. And I was getting in everywhere. And I was just like, I've never been in so much pain. Yeah. No, it's definitely, because I feel like even with history and things like that, or like the teachers will tell you, like a 45 mark question to take however many minutes. Like sometimes it can sound more daunting than it is. But actually, my experience was that I got in there and I actually code, right? In that amount of time, and it was like fine. So it kind of calmed your nerves in that way a bit. And it's also a good way because I feel like people always talk about like how many paragraphs an essay should be, or how long an essay should be, like a good way of seeing whether or not you and the speed that you write at, can, if it's realistic to aim for eight paragraphs in a history essay, for example, or not. So it's just like once again, as we said, a good tool to be able to like adjust what you're doing for the leaving sort to like set yourself up as best as you can. Yeah. It's like the only way is while you get that reaction of you open an exam paper and you don't get what you want. Like that's the only kind of scenario, apart from the leaving sort, that you'll probably get that experience of doing that and how your body reacts in that moment of time. Oh, Flip, what I wanted is not there, or this is word of differently, so what I was expecting is to do. And just seeing how do you navigate that is like a great opportunity again to figure that out of it yourself. Yeah. Like it's nice to have that experience of the panic before you don't get that. And then you got to your leaving sort of and it's something that you weren't anticipating. And then just like panicking then. Yeah. Because yeah, at least you know, then how you're going to react to something like that happening. So the marks are great guys with what we're saying. Be positive about that. Speaking of, I guess like what is on the mark papers? Obviously there's a whole thing of like mock leaks and like knowing what's on the mock papers. Which like definitely is like a modern phenomenon, I guess. Yeah. It was ran before COVID as well. It wasn't like a thing that came after. I remember they were definitely doing them during my junior's herd, so it's been a while. I'm old now, guys. I don't know. I feel like I never really, I just hear stuff about leaks, but unless you're looking for them, I don't know. I never really. What have done that, obviously. But yeah, did you guys ever encounter anything like that? What are your experiences with leaks? I think I got some of my free page just because I would kind of really. Yeah, because I'd kind of get stuff about like the leaving sort on my take talk anyways. I think if you like came up, but I tried to just ignore it because. Yeah. Yeah, it's just a deserved test. I'm not worried. No, I'm sorry. I'm going to help you in the long run. Underlines the whole point of doing the masks. Exactly. Like if you know what's coming up, then what is the point in using it as like a test to see whether or not you can do it in time because you're removing all of that. Like, it's launching straight into the questions that you knew were going to come up. And it's also just not a test of whether or not you know the syllabus because you can just learn things off. So there's like multiple mock paper companies and multiple options. And even with the companies, there's yeah, you're over. So. But like as we said, the only person in the mock benefit is you like it's just practice. So if you go completely off leaks, like you're not helping yourself at all. Yes. Very from leaks. Yeah. Don't do it kids. Don't do it. It's not worth it. It seems great in the moment, but you'll regret it. Yeah. It just takes a realism out of it. So it's like, what's the point? It's just not prepared. And all the things we've talked about, like those moments of opening a paper, not knowing what's on it, then that's just gone. And you don't get to experience that until the day the leaving sir and I would prefer to have done that experience that at least once before the actual thing. Yeah. Yeah. You like the leaks aren't going to be there for the leaving sir. So like you're on your own then. Yeah. That's actually like another film I saw recently where they just like found the test and then illegally sell it. I'm sorry. Letterbox just made my head. But yeah. So don't do that. I feel like leading up to the marks. A lot of people can kind of be unsure of what's the best way to actually prep for them and like kind of what to do with yourself. Because it's such a weird time, like preparing for it. I think the main, you know, obviously you want to do as much study as you can, but like you want to first of all take breaks. And because like, as we said, you know, you're not going to have the full course content covered and realistically like you're only going to get so much learned. So like, you know, be realistic with yourself. But yeah, definitely take breaks also like there's loads of different kind of more passive study methods that you can implement into your life too. Like whether that's like going for a walk and listening to a podcast about, you know, whatever topic you might be studying or even like using flashcards like to test yourself. I think that can be a really efficient method of because you know, if you're just like riding things all the time, you're only probably retaining a certain amount of it. But if you're actually testing yourself, that's kind of what's going to help you most in the long run. So like it's about kind of being efficient with your study as well. And these last few weeks need not to it. Would you guys have anything to add to that? Yeah, I would definitely say like cause with the marks, they're usually all close packed, like packed close together that you should try not like be focusing on one subject like before the mark. Like if you've English first, don't spend the three days before English only studying for English, like you should be trying to like which it can be easy to fall into that trap. But you should be trying to kind of spend your time evenly across your subjects because you know, you could say all do English. And then I have maths tomorrow, and I'll study for maths after English, but like there can be quite draining and like chances are is that like you won't feel like studying for maths all evening after you do your English mark. So I would definitely just like try to distribute your time evenly over your subjects. Or like another thing that I found in my school anyway was a lot of people would be like, like we'd have two exams and one day and people would be like, oh, I'll study in the break in between. But like you're not going to want to do that, you know, that time. You have to take a break, you're not going to take any of it in, yeah, you're not. And you want to like eat something for the next one, you know, like studying is going to be the last thing on your mind, or even if you like mean to do it. You're not going to feel like it. And then you just maybe get more stressed out about the fact that you have in study then. So like, yeah, definitely good idea to try and, you know, evenly distribute your study as best you can in the few days, they'd not do it. Yeah. Yeah, I think it's important just like as these guys kind of reiterating it, reiterating it is like focusing on one thing at a time. And like focusing on the things you do know rather than the things you don't know, because as we keep saying the mocks is not a game of perfect and neither is leaving sort of, but it's like, yeah, what do I know? How best can I prepare myself and not overwhelm myself because there's a lot of subjects and there's a lot of exams in a very short space of time. So like pick one thing and study that and think about the things you do know instead of overwhelming yourself, which is really easy to do. Yeah. Also, like don't push yourself like past the point that like, I know. Like listen to like your body, I guess for like lack of a better term, like if you come home from an exam and your feel burnt out and really tired, like maybe it's yeah. Sleep out. I love sleep. Like there's no point sitting there and like trying to force yourself to study if you're so tired that you're not retaining anything. Like it's better to go to bed and then just like maybe wake up early and do an hour before the exam. Maybe if you want. Yeah. Only if you want. I see that. Like I get up at like five, six a.m. And not for the leading serve, but for some of my law exams, like, yeah. Have you get enough early for those? Yeah, you were like a study at night, like last 12. Yeah, definitely. I always go to like one and be like, I actually can't do it anymore. I think I never got past 10 o'clock in my life. Maybe half 10 was like the latest. No, I would be like going to like I could finish it like half one. I wouldn't be like all night. Okay. Yeah. Do you ever fall asleep in the middle of like studying? No. No. Never in the finish the task. Well, I'm not a good sleeper. So like there's no way I fall asleep at a desk. Yeah, that's true. Have you ever run into like burn it? We're leaving sir. Like kind of no. For some reason, I think I was just like so focused on like just doing it. And I had like kind of a good routine that I didn't feel burnt at except for maybe like. I think I had like a week between whatever my exam was before politics and politics. And I think in that week, I was just like, oh my god, I actually can't. I feel like you're just kind of in autopilot up to that point. And then it kind of hits a point that you can stop when you're like, oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm so glad I was not in any of those. But then again, like love leading to politics. Great subject. It was a great subject. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So cool. So cool of the SEC. Someone has to be true. One of the hell you picked that. Is it like? Yeah. I think it's based on how many people do it. Yeah. I think. I think I applied master's also the last year. And some of the niche languages, I think. Yeah. Well, sorry. Not that any language of niche. The smaller kind of subjects of these popular ones. Yeah. Not your German, your Spanish or your Portuguese friend. You probably do Portuguese. You probably can. But it's niche. But yeah, ultimately the mocks are just a great way to kind of know how to guide your study after you get your results. Like even if they don't go as well as you maybe would have hoped, which is completely normal. Because like you still have so much to cover. Those like four months between the mocks and the leaves that you're going to do so much study and prep. And you know, you'll see so much more comfortable going into the exam. So like it's only natural to maybe not get the best grade. But it's a great point to kind of base, you know, to figure out where you're going to go next with your study and what you need to focus on after. Yeah, after you get your results. So I think it's really important to bear that in mind. Yeah. I just remember this question. And like the maths paper and stuff and I, there's particular ones that I got wrong. I would just like repeat them. I remember I did like the same question like every single day after two weeks. I'm like, I never gonna get that question wrong again. But that's a great way you can do it. I just, yeah, just almost do the mock again. There's like a thing but not like in one night. But like slowly overnight, I find that useful. Depending on the subject, obviously, because that doesn't really apply for everything. We had to do that in maths. We did like, we did like three or four different maths mocks. But like the actual ones we did like during our mocks, our maths teacher medals do each paper again, I think for homework. Yeah, some teachers will do that. So I might have to do that. I have no choice on that matter. Or even like I think if the teachers will give it to you, like asking for the marking scheme from the mocks. And like being able to like go through yourself and like sit down properly and compare what you wrote to like the marking scheme answer if you didn't get like full marks, particularly in things like definitions. Yeah. And like knowing what they're actually looking for. Because like sometimes you know the information you just don't know that you're expected to write that until you do the mocks. Or like there's like one specific thing that you're missing that's like really small. And that can be the point between getting the marks or not. Yeah. Yeah, there's fine margins. And the marks can help you get those fine margins. Yeah. They will, they do really make such a difference. I'm really enjoying this podcast. Being able to just look at the camera. As I said before, I feel like I'm in the office. Or I'm like, don't feel in modern family if anybody's seen that. Well, I'm glad to hear. Thank you. Let's move on to some questions that were sent into our Instagram from students like yourselves listening about the mocks. So the first question Andy and I are saying is how to survive. I'm so stressed. Oh, love that. The question is like screaming off the page at me. Do you want to take that one? I can sense this from. Yeah. Yeah. So. I think it was then. So I was. I was so. Well, I think like, first of all, like acknowledge like you're going to be stressed. Like there's kind of no like magic remedy to like being like super chilled during the mocks. Like it's a stressful experience. Like it's intense. You're going to be stressed. I think just like kind of knowing your limits. And like when you feel stressed and like burn out tired, don't be like pushing yourself to like. Yeah, just don't be pushing yourself. You know, your limits are feeling really stressed, maybe like take a minute, like go for a walk. And like also trying not to like overthink it. Like these are only a practice run. Like you're trying to use them to learn they're not the be all and end all in any sense. So like just kind of put them in perspective of what they actually are. And like obviously try to do well, but don't push yourself like too hard. Put this in. I can't. I can't add anything to that. That was my experience. Because maybe there should be a guidance kind of there like maybe not. Oh. Just take to your five texts. Okay. Okay. The second question is how to study every subject in four weeks. Now I'm going to tell you it's not going to happen. Unfortunately. And you can study every subject. Just maybe not in their entirety. You know, like obviously focus on doing as much as you can, but also be realistic with yourself. You know, as we've said in the podcast, like more than likely there's still so many things you haven't covered or things you might not covered in that much detail. So like, you know, focus on the things at this point in time that like maybe you're stronger at or maybe that. That you feel confident that you could answer like if you put in work. I think as well rather than like maybe like spending loads and all the time like studying one small segment of. A subject like just taking like doing like flashcards like even. Unlike the study clips website, there's the flashcards and the quizzes. Like do like little things like that that are just kind of low effort, but also like they do really get in your head. And like when you're testing yourself, you're actually putting your knowledge into practice. Because realistically, you probably know one awful lot more than you do think. You just don't have like, you know, knowledge might be at the front of your brain, but. Yeah, it's there. Yeah. I think obviously because you can't study everything like I know in some subjects there's certain topics that are like kind of guaranteed to come up like for certain questions. I think maybe I actually didn't do the sciences, but I think for some of the sciences like certain questions are like it's always going to be. Yeah, like I remember like the first like biology long question would nearly always be ecology. Yeah, so like covering your bases in terms of that like for so at least like you're definitely going to be able to answer that question. Yeah, if you can't do the niche question, then like you know that you'll just have to study that before the leaving sir when you have more time. Just cover the things that are like most likely to kind of always be there, you know, your kind. Yeah, and realize it's a good question to be asking now instead of four weeks before the leaving sir, so that you have all that time. Exactly. Yeah, you know what I'm talking about. Just put in good habits now in these four weeks and then bang after the marks you're ready for the leaves. Yes, boom. Okay, the next question we have is how long should you be studying for every night for the junior sir? This is a question that always comes up all of the time, but it's like very personal to each person like there's no. Like answer like there's it's not going to be a few study two hours every night for the junior sir you're going to get. Well, distinctions that were on there, like how many subjects do you usually do 11. Oh, it's quite a few. A lot of it's like CBAs now. Yeah, well there's no magic number for whatever number of distinctions. You just have to like, base it off your own like personal. Study goals and like study methods and like kind of just like knowing what you want to get in the junior sir and trying to. You know, pick if you want to put a number on it like pick a number of hours that like you feel is manageable for you. To do over a sustainable period of time and that will like allow you to achieve your goals. I say it's as well know yourself and know the results you got in like first and second year exams and like a few they were ones you were happy with just kind of keep doing the same thing you were doing. I don't think you need to change too much. Maybe add in a little bit here and there, but like if you were doing maybe you want to get slightly better results in your first and second year exams then do a little bit more than that. I think maybe base it off what you've been doing previously because it's still exams and I know they're still exams and they're a bit more important so you should be doing a little bit more. But I think if you've been doing well and okay keep going about what you're doing and if you didn't do as well as you may maybe like to step it up. And I think enough thing as well is not to compare how much study you're doing to somebody else maybe in your class. Absolutely. Like they might spend I don't know like an hour studying for something that you might need two hours for or the other around. So I think it's very important to you know think about what you yourself do need and focus on that more than anything. Yeah. The next question then is how much will you go up from the mocks to the actual leaving search? 65 points. That's that. Well let me guess that depends on what you're doing in mocks and how long you're leaving so just not. No there's no magic number for that at all. Just I guess naturally you usually do go up because the mocks are in my heart and you've covered us with the course and all these things. I don't think there's a number that can be put on that it's very different between each student any subject. But I guess there's like just realize there's a comfort in that in that the mocks aren't to be on and on that there's a security in the not a security but you are likely to maybe hopefully go up. Great at least. I think most people generally do go up like nobody I don't I don't think I've ever heard of anyone who's gone down from their mocks. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So. Yeah. Look at it from the point of view that it's very difficult to do worse. Yeah. Like you're just completely. You'll be in a much better place called the actual even search. So as a result of that you're likely to score better than you would have maybe in the mocks because as you've said it's a lot easier. It's it's expected kind of to not do so well because of circumstances that you're in currently like you know you're not really in a place to be able to do a full state exam when you're in January February of juniors or even search. So I wouldn't worry too much but yeah. You have a 65 points. 57 points. Oh, sorry. I had to do it. You said 65. Okay, I'll leave. Okay guys. Next question. Should I take the juniors or mocks seriously? Yes. Otherwise it was like a possible. No, you should like I mean there's just things back to all the points we're already saying. Like it's just practice for yourself. You're in juniors like you've never done a state exam before like this is your first your first kind of crack at it. So you know don't go overboard because you know you don't you don't really have a reason to do what you need to your homework to your study. And yeah, just use this practice for yourself because it's you who is going to thank yourself at the end of the day. I think that's probably true that. The final question we have then is our mocks harder. Yeah. Yeah, I think like the experience is definitely as a whole harder. Like maybe not necessarily the actual paper and the actual questions but like the context that you're in like it's definitely harder because of that. So yeah, you're going to go up 10,000 points afterwards. Yeah. Don't worry about it. I think we're going to finish it up. 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