Junior Certificate maths: A good test requiring a "thorough knowledge of the course" is how one teacher described yesterday's Junior Certificate higher level maths paper two.
According to Jim Healy of skoool.ie, and a teacher at Terenure College in Dublin, students generally found the second paper to be less difficult than paper one, which they sat last Thursday.
"There were no real nasty shocks in it," he said. "If you made the effort, nothing should stop you from getting marks. I think the examiners did an excellent job on it."
At ordinary level, Maria Kelly, subject representative for the ASTI and a teacher at Bishopstown Community School in Cork, said yesterday's paper was well balanced with few surprises.
She particularly liked the way in which the questions on the exam were structured, although she hoped that exam supervisors would have corrected a typographical error which appeared in question four.
