Junior Cert higher level maths paper ‘challenging’

WITH only about 5,000 Leaving Certificate engineering students in exam halls because of the rescheduled English papers, Junior Certificate candidates felt most pressure on day two of the state exams.

The Teachers’ Union of Ireland’s maths spokesperson Michael Berry said the higher level maths paper could have been difficult for some Junior Certificate students yesterday morning.

He referred to the wordiness of questions on the first few pages which might have been off-putting initially. But, he said, the first few questions were quite practical arithmetic problems, such as calculating the length of a journey.