Students object to six hours of almost continuous writing

SIX hours of almost constant writing is too much for anybody, according to disgruntled students who took two English Leaving Certificate papers yesterday.

Ian Cusack and several of his tired classmates at Christian Brothers College in Cork City declared that examiners should break up the subject into separate days.

“I think today will be the worst day of all the exams because of that. It’s a bit ridiculous to have double English on the first day,” Ian said yesterday evening.