Summing up: Dreaded maths brings week one of state exams to a close

The first maths exams, dreaded by so many students each year, brought the first week of the 2016 State exams to a close.

At Leaving Certificate, Robert Chaney of the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) said the ordinary level Paper 1 was very fair, testing students on many topics they would have expected.

If students were practised in most skills, they should have worked their way through, and questions led nicely from one part to the next. Mr Chaney singled out nice questions on quadratic and arithmetic sequences as not overly-complicated.