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.

Andy Carolan, TUI spokesperson, described the higher level Leaving Certificate paper as fair but testing, particularly the (c) parts of many questions. He felt students might have been surprised at the places where theorems came up but overall it was a good paper for brighter students.

ASTI spokesperson Eileen Scanlon said it was a good first higher level paper. She said there was no ambiguity about what was being asked and agreed the (c) parts of questions were quite tough.