Junior Cert business studies:There were few complaints about the Junior Cert business studies exams, with papers at both higher and ordinary level described as being "predictable" and "along familiar lines."
Almost 34,000 students were sitting business studies, with over two thirds taking higher level.
Pat Morris, ASTI subject convenor and a teacher at Coláiste Chríost Rí in Cork, was happy with the papers.
Higher level paper one accounts for 60 per cent of marks, and Mr Morris said section A, which sees students answer 20 short questions, was fair. "If students are going to do well, they would want to do well in that section and I thought it gave them great scope," he said.
He said there was a good choice in section B with topical and relevant questions on SSIAs, consumer issues and personal banking. Gerry McCarthy of De La Salle College, Macroom, Cork, and spokesman for the Business Studies Teachers' Association said the papers at both levels were "well designed and well presented in general."
He welcomed that section A included two internal choices but said more options could be given.
On a straightforward ordinary paper, Mr Morris and Mr McCarthy praised the fact that there were answer sheets for six out of the eight questions in section B, which Mr Morris said saved students time.
