Maths Grinds Dublin

The pressure in Dublin schools is specific. Points requirements for courses in Trinity, UCD and DCU sit high enough that students treat the 25 bonus points as compulsory rather than optional, so a lot of them stay at Higher Level past the point where they can follow the material. That is the single most common reason a Dublin student ends up looking for grinds.

The other pattern is the grinds-school default. There is a long tradition in Dublin of enrolling in large group classes, which works well for some students and badly for the ones who already have gaps. A room of thirty moving at exam pace does not stop for the student who never properly learned to manipulate algebraic fractions. One to one starts from whatever that student actually knows.

Online suits Dublin students for an unglamorous reason: traffic. An hour of tuition stops costing two hours of the evening once nobody has to cross the city for it.