Students had no way of predicting design paper

STUDENTS sitting the Leaving Certificate Design and Communications Graphics Higher Level paper were well tested, according to teacher Kieran Tummon.

He said although the paper was fair, and with no tricks, it was very challenging.

“You couldn’t say this was an easy paper and it will be difficult enough to get an A,” said Mr Tummon of Mount Temple Comprehensive School in Dublin and a member of the TUI.

He said the course had developed into one where you could not predict the exam and a number of topics could be mingled into a single question.

Among the more challenging tasks was the short question about a parabola, he said,

A teacher at Dublin’s Institute of Education agreed there was little or no room for rote learning in the exam, as all the content in the questions was “totally unpredictable”.

The teacher said that across both levels, candidates could apply their knowledge and understanding of an extensive range of geometric principles and applications to questions based on modern, vibrant everyday examples.

Mr Tummon described the ordinary level paper as “fair but doable”.