Here's what students thought of today's Leaving and Junior Cert paper

By Ciara Phelan

The wait is finally over for 120,000 Junior and Leaving cert students as they sat English paper one today in 5,000 test centres across Ireland.

There has been a 3% increase in students opting to take the higher level English paper this year, here are some reactions to today’s paper.

English Paper 1 was by no means easy - composition titles were tough! #LeavingCert

— Harry McCann (@TheHarryMcC) June 7, 2017

When the LC brings up fake news.. #leavingcert pic.twitter.com/cXNuaFzxce

— Annabella SM (@AnnabellaSM) June 7, 2017

Tomorrow students will sit English paper two and are praying for poets Slyvia Plath and Eavan Boland to appear.

Rip to my right hand tomorrow #englishpaper2

— Amy☁️ (@amyh3180) February 7, 2017

Students sitting the Junior Cert also had mixed reactions

#JuniorCert says there'll be no essay questions everything bar two questions are essays 😐

— Shauna Hickey (@shaunaxtobin) June 7, 2017

So the #JuniorCert English paper had no question on the novel...seriously....#facepalm

— Ciara H (@CiHarb) June 7, 2017

Best of luck to everyone tomorrow, keep her lit!