Answers cooked up for second paper of the day
For Sarah O’Connor, home economics was the paper she was most looking forward to as she hopes to become a teacher of the subject herself.
“I’ve applied to study for it in Sligo, it’s my favourite subject,” she explained.
Sarah said she had a bit of a panic attack when she opened the higher level paper to find a question about vitamins but she got through the exam fine.
“The short questions were lovely and I liked the long question about marriage as well,” she said.
Cindy Lyes had some nerves at the start of the day but she was pleased emerging from the home economics exam yesterday.
“The short questions were okay but the long option questions were a bit hard, I thought the appliances question was a bit hard,” she said.
“I’m hoping to do hairdressing or nursing after I finish. I’ll miss all the girls when we’re gone from the school,” said Cindy.
Lisa Heffernan from Dublin Hill said she had hoped the exam would be better, having chosen not to do the microbiology question despite having studied for that topic.
“It’s grand to have the first day over, but I wasn’t too nervous really until I came in and met all the girls this morning,” she said.
Another classmate, Sarah Scanlon from nearby Dillon’s Cross was also pleased with the short questions section, which she said were taken from a good range of the entire course.
“It was good that the appliance question came up and there was a nice question on marriage in there too,” she said.
The school’s home economics teacher Caroline O’Connell was pleased with the papers yesterday and said most girls got on very well.
She said the ordinary level paper was also well received, featuring particularly topical subjects such as unemployment and poverty in the social studies section.
Ms O’Connell said students were also happy with the ordinary level questions about appliances and carbohydrates.
