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.

For any car-owning students taking ordinary level Leaving Certificate maths, this would have been quite clear from reading question 1(c). It asked candidates to calculate amounts of petrol being delivered by a pump with a faulty meter.

Although the problem was that it dispensed more than the meter showed, more people might have been surprised that the garage was only charging 85 cent per litre.