Junior Cert: Sighs of relief over Rising questions

Nearly 55,000 Junior Certificate students breathed sighs of relief to see questions on 1916 in their history exams.

The Easter Rising was the subject of questions for higher- and ordinary-level candidates, said Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) representative Michael Hogan. For those doing the subject to honours level, an account of the events was an optional question, while ordinary-level students had the option to write about a chosen 1916 figure in the ‘people in history’ section.

Mr Hogan said the short questions at higher level were more than fair, and there were no surprises in the questions about people in history. He thought the short extracts on social change in Britain were very interesting, and all students should have been familiar enough with the Reformation for questions on it.