Blast from the past - old exam papers

am_zarathustra

It's worth remembering that access to the Leaving Cert was not universal and a place to study or access to books was not there for many students. Lots of A student never had the opertunity to sit the exam. You would hope modern Ireland is evening the playing field.

I will say that in the subjects I teach, I had to be able to do more in school when I sat the LC but I didn't really need to understand it, more emphasis on that now. The new assessment questions would have benefited those with a natural talent for it, but would have hurt the students in my class who got the grade with grinds and 6-7 hours of extra school every weekend. From correcting, its not the straight from the curriculum stuff that students get wrong, it's the questions asked from an angle they are not familiar with.....would have been the same in my time. I remember girls learning 10 essays for poetry.

But it's mad looking back at things you oncw knew so well, fair play to you remembering what was on the paper and which questions you answered!

NewbridgeIR

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121933337#Comment_121933337

Leaving Cert History - Modern Ireland by Mark Tierney