No ‘snaky’ stuff by examiners in this year’s Leaving
THERE’S been little in the way of nasty surprises to trip up the students of North Kerry yet in this year’s Leaving Cert with most reporting themselves very pleased with how the whole thing is going.
Examiners are usually at pains to point out they’re not in the business of tripping students up per se, of course. But year-in, year-out there’s always at least one stinker of a paper that gets teachers and the students ire up.
Not the case in 2016 thankfully. At least not yet, according to a number of deputy principals in North Kerry.
In Presentation Secondary school in Listowel, where 56 are sitting the big test, all is going swimmingly.
“They were very happy coming out of Irish Paper 2 today,” Deputy Principal and Irish teacher Margaret Walsh told The Kerryman.
“Everything predicted had come up with no surprises at all.
That was certainly the case yesterday also in the first Irish paper when all the essays predicted came up, including one on 1916.”
Ms Walsh said the girls were exemplary in their calm poise approaching the exams all week and praised them as a ‘wonderful group of students’.
Over on the other side of town, St Michael’s College deputy principal Liam Hassett was similarly impressed with how the lads were dealing with it all.
“It’s going very well. While boys probably don’t go in for post mortems as much as girls they were happy enough with how the second Irish paper went today,” Mr Hassett said on Tuesday.
His own subject Engineering went very well with all angles covered well in advance.
“The main thing is they have the hard work done, it’s all about putting in the graft and being ready for the exam on the big day now,” Mr Hassett said.