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LEAVING CERT ENGINEERING, HIGHER AND ORDINARY LEVELS: THERE WERE no nasty shocks for engineering students on the final day of the Leaving Certificate exams, as they opened papers that were “largely similar to other years”, according to TUI subject representative Dan Keane, a teacher in Beaufort College in Navan.
23 /06/2008
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Paper adds up to a fair and interesting test
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LEAVING CERT APPLIED MATHS: HIGHER LEVEL: AN EXAM with, "Something for everyone," was the verdict on the Leaving Cert applied maths paper yesterday afternoon. Teachers praised the paper as well written and carefully structured.
23 /06/2008
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Opening tricky but fair overall
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LEAVING CERT: AGRICULTURAL SCIENCEHIGHER-LEVEL: A TRICKY opening may have thrown some, but students soon settled into what was, overall, a "very fair" agricultural science paper yesterday afternoon.
23 /06/2008
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Attention to detail rewarded on 'searching papers'
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LEAVING CERTIFICATE RELIGIOUS STUDIES: HIGHER AND ORDINARY LEVELS IT WAS a testing morning for less than a thousand students sitting yesterday's Leaving Certificate religious studies exam.
20 /06/2008
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Papers marked by difficult elements but strike the right note with students
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LEAVING CERT MUSIC: ALL LEVELS THE LEAVING Cert music exams was well received by students, according to teachers of the subject. While not without their difficult elements, there were few surprises in the papers.
20/06/2008
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Topical themes left most students spoiled for choice
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LEAVING CERT ECONOMICS: YESTERDAY’S LEAVING Cert Economics exams were “bang up to date”, fielding questions regarding the price of oil, inflation, banking and credit.
19 /06/2008
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Keeping old syllabus up with the times
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LEAVING CERT CONSTRUCTION STUDIES: SITE SAFETY, planning permission and the environmental impact of housing were among current topics on yesterday’s papers, despite the age of the syllabus.
19 /06/2008
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Students' sighs of relief after 'predictable' paper
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LEAVING CERT CLASSICAL STUDIES/LATIN: STUDENTS OF Classical Studies were both pleased and relieved coming out of yesterday's Leaving Cert exam. The higher level paper was, "reasonably predictable" but not without its awkward questions, according to the ASTI's Jim O'Dea.
19 /06/2008
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Higher and Ordinary Students say 'gracias' after balanced papers
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LEAVING CERT SPANISH: STUDENTS WELCOMED "balanced and straightforward" papers in yesterday's exams. Máire Ní Chiarba, ASTI representative and Spanish teacher in Coláiste an Phiarsaigh, Cork, said that students and teachers were pleased with both higher and ordinary level papers.
18 /06/2008
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Students have to take account of surprises
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LEAVING CERT ACCOUNTANCY: THERE WERE some surprises for students of higher level accounting yesterday on a paper described as "interesting" by one teacher; "ambiguous" by another.
18 /06/2008
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Familiar questions fail to flummox
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LEAVING CERT PHYSICS - HIGHER AND ORDINARY LEVEL: STUDENTS RELYING on exam predictions to get them through the Leaving Cert higher level physics paper were disappointed yesterday morning. Two of the four questions in section A appeared on the paper in 2006. "They weren't expected to come up again this year," said ASTI subject representative Edel McInerney.
17 /06/2008
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Exam draws a line under technical drawing syllabus
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LEAVING CERT TECHNICAL DRAWING PAPER II: THE 25-YEAR-OLD Leaving Cert technical drawing syllabus was laid to rest yesterday as 5,661 students sat its final examination
17/06/2008
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German exam asks some tough questions
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LEAVING CERTIFICATE GERMAN - HIGHER AND ORDINARY: STUDENTS OF German faced an uphill struggle yesterday on a higher level paper characterised by dense vocabulary and tough questioning in places.
16/06/2008
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Early questions helped to ease students into papers
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LEAVING CERT TECHNICAL DRAWING: PAPER I HIGHER AND ORDINARY LEVEL: "TESTING BUT do-able" was the consensus on the higher and ordinary level technical drawing papers yesterday afternoon.
16/06/2008
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'Fair but challenging' papers put students to the test
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LEAVING CERT BIOLOGY: ALL LEVELS YESTERDAY'S HIGHER and ordinary-level biology papers were described as fair but challenging, although there were some aspects of the higher-level paper that might have caused upset for students.
13/06/2008
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Obscure exams draw mixed reactions
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LEAVING CERT ART: ALL LEVELS IT WAS a tough day for art students yesterday, as the written component of their exam proved exacting and, in places, "obscure", according to one teacher.
13/06/2008
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Paper lives up to updated syllabus promise
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LEAVING CERT HISTORY: HIGHER AND ORDINARY PAPERS: ADOLF HITLER was notable for his absence from yesterday's higher level history paper, but Mary Robinson, Jack Lynch and Ho Chi Minh all made the cut. Login or subscribe for more.
12/06/2008
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Getting lost on the Champs-Élysées
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LEAVING CERT FRENCH: HIGHER AND ORDINARY PAPERS: YESTERDAYS HIGHER- and ordinary-level French papers were straightforward but the higher-level comprehensions may have challenged some students with its vocabulary and phrasing. Login or subscribe for more.
12/06/2008
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Students were in business once they wasted no time
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LEAVING CERT BUSINESS: HIGHER AND ORDINARY LEVEL: LEAVING CERT students sitting down to the higher level business paper had no time to waste yesterday afternoon.
11/06/2008
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IRISH PAPER II: LEAVING CERT ORDINARY LEVEL: A LEADING Irish expert has described yesterday’s Irish Paper II ordinary level as one of the most straightforward in years. Eamonn Maguire, Irish Times Study Guide expert, said the exam was one of the easiest in years.
11/06/2008
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Straightforward, well-received paper with no mention of Ó Searcaigh
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IRISH LEAVING CERT PAPER II: HIGHER LEVEL: POET CATHAL Ó Searcaigh did not appear on this year’s Irish Leaving Cert Paper II some months after the controversy surrounding the documentary Fairytale of Kathmandu.
11/06/2008
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| Fair exam greeted as 'welcome relief' |
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LEAVING CERT MATHS: AFTER A challenging first paper, the often dreaded paper II was greeted as "a welcome relief" by teachers of Leaving Cert ordinary level maths yesterday.
10/06/2008
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| 'The best Irish paper in 20 years' |
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LEAVING CERT IRISH: THERE WAS a warm welcome for yesterday's higher level Irish paper I, which one teacher considered "the best Irish paper in 20 years".
10/06/2008
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| High marks for 'student friendly' exam |
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LEAVING CERT MATHS: IT WAS smiles all round for Leaving Cert maths students at higher level, as paper II proved to be well balanced and student-friendly.
10/06/2008
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| Higher level smiles, but the ordinary a specific challenge |
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LEAVING CERT GEOGRAPHY: HIGHER AND ORDINARY LEVEL: IT WAS a happier day for students emerging from the higher-level Leaving Cert geography paper yesterday than it was for their peers at ordinary level.
07/06/2008
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| Some 'sail through' while others trip up in the detail |
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LEAVING CERT MATHS: HIGHER LEVEL PAPER I: THERE WERE widely different responses to yesterday's higher level maths paper, with some students "sailing through" while others found the going tough, according to commentators.
07/06/2008
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Students happy and content over what was a very fair paper
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LEAVING CERT ENGLISH ORDINARY LEVEL: STUDENTS WERE happy coming out of the Leaving Cert ordinary level English exam yesterday morning, and the vast majority appeared content with what was viewed as a very fair paper.
05/06/2008
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