Person: Eileen Scanlon

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Comedy helps ease nerves in Irish

WHETHER it was “in the name of the fada” in Irish or the “reasonable and fair” maths papers, student-friendly was the catchphrase which most appropriately summed up the fourth day of the 2009 Leaving and Junior certificate exams yesterday.

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It all added up in maths and geography tests

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Junior Cert higher level maths paper ‘challenging’

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Thumbs up all round for ‘nice’ papers

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Week two sums up Maths and Geography

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Maths reactions range from solid to outrageous

Testing times but Maths Paper I deemed ‘fair’

THE first maths papers faced Junior Certificate and Leaving Certificate candidates in hundreds of schools around the country yesterday morning.

Fri, 09 Jun, 2006

Leaving Cert exams ‘fairer’ than last week

EXAM students got stuck into their second maths exams yesterday morning and the general feeling was that Leaving Certificate papers were fairer than those of last Thursday.

Tue, 14 Jun, 2005

Maths exam draws angry reactions

THERE were angry reactions from some teachers to yesterday’s higher level Leaving Certificate maths Paper I.

Fri, 10 Jun, 2005

Students ‘not interested in Arnie and Fungi’

THE examiners who set the papers for the State exams obviously do so much earlier in the year than when the thousands of students receive them.

Fri, 11 Jun, 2004

Teachers dismayed by maths paper

THOSE who set the second paper for Leaving Cert ordinary level maths students can expect some flak from teachers around the country.

Tue, 10 Jun, 2003