Exams live: Junior Cycle business exam praised as ‘a fair paper that provided scope for students to apply their knowledge’
There was a mixed reaction among teachers to Leaving Cert Irish paper one which may have posed challenges for the best-prepared students.
“The díospóireacht question was based on the Irish language and charities. Students would have needed to have been well prepared for those. Overall, this paper may have proved challenging for some students today.”Clare Grealy from the Institute of Education in Dublin walks students through the Irish higher paper one.
“How one goes about approaching ‘Irish in the Digital Age’ is something that would perturb teachers, never mind students. Other topics were certainly more immediately culturally relevant . One must wonder how much a 17 or 18-year old would have explored this element through Irish. Knowing how to discuss something in English is very different to having those tools in Irish and thus many will be frustrated,” she said.
Máire Ní Cheallaigh, also an Irish teacher at the Institute, said the listening test was “broadly accessible”, though it did contain a few tricky moments for the students. “Students were also given the opportunity to come up with creative solutions to contemporary issues such as what to do with a national budget surplus – who knows maybe the Minister for Finance would take the advice of our Junior Cycle students on board?”
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