Exam adds up to a fair challenge

THERE were sighs of relief in most Leaving Certificate exam halls on reading the second maths papers, according to Brid Griffin of the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI).

After many complaints about higher-level Paper 1 last Friday, students were hoping for a nicer exam yesterday morning. Ms Griffin said it was fair and contained a good balance of challenging and straightforward questions.

She felt that questions on co-ordinate geometry, vectors and probability would have been favourably received, but the last part of a trigonometry question was quite challenging.