Students had paper ‘less than a minute’

STUDENTS who were given the wrong English papers at a Drogheda school on Wednesday morning had less than a minute to read the questions before having them taken away again.

A Leaving Certificate candidate at St Oliver’s Community College claimed they were told to turn the exam sheets over and put them to the side of their desks as soon as another student said aloud that it was Paper II instead of Paper I.

“I didn’t even realise it at first. On Paper I, it usually says the theme of the paper and I was just looking for that across the front cover and couldn’t find it. Somebody just piped up and said, ‘This is paper two’, and immediately it was snapped up, taken off us. I didn’t get a chance to open it,” the girl told Joe Duffy on RTÉ’s Liveline radio programme.