Summing up the Maths, Part 2
Amy Goldsmith and Alison Corcoran, students of St Vincent’s secondary school in Cork city, are both hoping to get into childcare courses with their results. They found yesterday’s ordinary level maths paper more difficult than the first paper.
“It was definitely harder, but I don’t mind because I’m finished on Wednesday after the business exam,” said Alison from Gurranabraher, who is also interested in nursing.
“I’ll try to get a summer job now until I go to college. I suppose we’ll miss school, alright, except for the exams,” she said.
Another St Vincent’s student, Ciara O’Brien from the Lough, agreed that the second ordinary level exam was harder than the first one on Thursday.
“The home economics was the hardest so far, though, the course was new and nobody knew what might come up,” she said.
“I’m not really looking forward to biology on Wednesday, but it’s my last exam and my birthday’s on Friday so it’ll be a double celebration at the weekend,” said Ciara, who hopes to study geology at UCC next year.
At the North Monastery, Mark Barrett said the higher level maths paper II was challenging.
“It was harder than the first paper, especially the question on vectors. I’m hoping to do chemistry in UCC but it’ll depend on my Irish result, it was very hard last week,” he said.
Ross Coveney and Dave Lockyer found the ordinary level paper difficult but the blistering sun helped them to look forward to holidays in Crete and Santa Ponsa.
St Vincent’s students Serena Lee and Kate Murphy thought the second foundation level maths paper was going to be harder.
“It was easy enough, but some of the exams so far have been harder than the pre-Leaving papers,” said Serena.
Their classmates Fiona Doherty and Amy O’Connell felt that the home economics paper on Friday was the toughest up to now.
“It was really awful, it was a very long exam,” said Fiona.
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