Music exam hits all the right notes as technology is well received

Mairead Glynn of the Teachers’ Union of Ireland said yesterday’s higher-level Junior Certificate music exam was very fair.

She said questions were worded well, but the selections from which they were asked to pick the form of the first listening excerpt were quite advanced. There was nothing too unexpected in the written section, but working in the key of B-flat may have been difficult for some students.

Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland spokeswoman Mary McFadden considered the exam accessible. She said some students might have had a problem explaining an ostinato in a question on Simon & Garfunkel’s ‘Feelin‘ Groovy’.