Exam schedule: Hanafin could have done better

WHILE I agree with Sarah Egan (Letters, December 12) that the new Leaving Cert timetable will be an improvement for many students, it is clear that the Minister for Education, Mary Hanafin, “could have done better”.

In the past, the exams had to be completed within two-and-a-half weeks as many people were also sitting the now defunct matriculation exams.

The supposed rationale for squashing it all into two-and-a-half weeks now is to allow all the papers to be corrected by August.