Tricky but doable sections in Junior Cert higher level maths

The higher level Junior Certificate maths paper 2 had a mix of very manageable and some tricky parts, according to Elaine Devlin of the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI).

One question that asked for the importance about using representative samples in statistical research had the capacity to produce long but incorrect answers.

She felt it was an unnecessary confusion to require students to use shoe lengths instead of familiar units like centimetres or millimetres in a question looking for the height of a tower.