Leaving Cert: Qu’est-ce que c’est? French question may have got the goat of students

For Leaving Certificate French students, a morning exam featured questions in the listening test which were fairly typical and quite manageable for well-practised students.

Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) subject spokesperson Jane O’Dwyer noted, however, that they might have had difficulty with an item about a goat breeder.

She considered the two written comprehensions easier than other years, and suggested the first one about Paris tourism would have been popular with students. Familiarity with vocabulary in school from their oral exam would have helped with a novel extract.