Thumbs up all round for ‘nice’ papers

LEAVING Certificate students faced into a second round of maths papers yesterday morning with reports that the ordinary level exam was much fairer than the one taken on Friday.

Maria Kelly of the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) said most students should have been pleased. In the statistics question, a graph was already supplied and candidates did not have to draw one themselves, while a nice probability question also featured.

There might have been more work than a first glance suggested as part of a trigonometry question, which required students to find the length of one side of a triangle before finding the length of the one needed for the answer. Ms Kelly also thought the second part of a co-ordinate geometry question on the circle was difficult enough to be the used in a third part.