Leaving Cert students get down to business

Leaving Certificate students got down to business in the morning and needed some quite specific knowledge on many of the questions.

This was particularly so for those sitting the higher level exam, according to Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) subject spokeswoman Margo McGann.

She said students needed to recognise acronyms, for example, for foreign direct investment and capital gains tax, while the break-even chart was in a difficult format. Ms McGann also felt that students who anticipated a number of calculation questions will have been disappointed, as such tasks only accounted for 30 of the paper’s 400 marks. But she was pleased with the topics of the applied business question, about a returned emigrant setting up a surf school in Donegal, and the business-in-action section about a wedding dress designer.