Leaving Cert: Students down to earth on agri exam

The agricultural science papers kicked off the second-last day of Leaving Certificate 2016.

Seamus Hynes of the Teachers’ Union of Ireland believes the higher-level paper was trickier than last year’s. While there was a good range of topics, he said high grades would be tough to achieve as all questions required some level of very specific answering.

In the very first short question, he felt students might automatically have answered which family the clover plant is a member of, rather than the phylum for which they were asked.