Game of Russian roulette? I prefer Ultimate Frisbee

Yesterday, students across Ireland (myself included) realised the magnitude of the role luck plays in your Leaving Cert exams.

Every year there appears to be a Russian roulette of papers, wherein students are left distraught by one paper in particular. This year, you could argue, it was Maths Paper 1.

Most of the classmates I spoke to had “never seen a paper like it”. I found there were a few unusual questions I really had to think about.