Final batch of students sign off on Leaving Cert

Leaving Certificate 2017 only ended yesterday evening for around 3,500 students of applied maths and religious education.

Tony McGennis, applied maths spokesman for the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI), reported that many students reported the higher-level paper as being difficult.

Although there should be few complaints about questions on relative velocity of projectiles, connected particles, or rigid body rotation, an acceleration question requiring knowledge of circular motion was one of two more tricky questions.