Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting appears in exam which gave students lots of room to expand in their answers
Leaving cert students Sarah Daly, Kelsey Scully and Sophie Williams after English paper one at Trinity Comprehensive School, Ballymun, Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac DónaillThe first of this year’s Leaving Cert exams was accessible and included universal themes, with English paper one students guided through the paper by specific prompts, teachers have said.
Clodagh Havel, an English teacher at the Institute of Education, said some of these prompts were more specific than expected, but that students would have lots of room to explore and expand in their answers.
“Some students may even have been familiar with Text 2: The Bee Sting, which was fresh off the presses and adorned every bookstore window. As for the essay questions, Ms Barry said some of the students may have been thrown by a question asking them to write a dialogue, but that they had other choices.
“It offered students a variety of style of reading comprehensions to appeal a variety of learners,” she said.
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