STATE EXAMS: ‘Traditional’ French questions, but history throws up surprise

Leaving Certificate French exams were on the morning timetable for students yesterday and featured many topical issues.

Susan Farrell of the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) said she found nothing out of the ordinary in the written papers. The higher- level exam opened with an article about homelessness, a topic she said would have been discussed in a lot of classes.

She described as traditional a question asking students to tell what happened next after being woken in the middle of the night.