The following are excerpts from the Skoool.ie discussion forum on the exams. In their own words, students describe their reaction to the controversial Maths Leaving Cert paper and raise other issues.
• Who ever put the Leaving Cert Honours Paper 2 together should feel huge guilt this evening. It was absolutely ridiculous!!! What was the story with putting an applied maths type question as part of question 8?!! It'll be the cause of many students not reaching the point requirements for what might have been their dream courses! There's no excuse for typos like in question 1, its our leaving cert, it should have been dealt with already!
The Dep. of Ed.better be ready for all the complaints coming their way! Thanx for bringing down my Leaving Cert points cheers!
- Dominique
• I thought the Math Honours Paper 1 was a million times more difficult than Paper 2!!! I did really well in Paper 2, granted 8 (c) was a bit of a joke really... but the rest seemed ok... just paper 1 one I'd say I wouldn't be at all surprised if I failed it... French (H) was disgusting enough today as well.
- Conflustered maths person!!
• Can't see what all the fuss over Maths higher paper 2 is all about. I suppose I was lucky I picked out all the right stuff to study!
- Anon 1
JC honours Irish wot iz de story wit makin it so hard? Every1 thout it woz. de story and debates were AWFUL.
- Hiller frm CONFEY
• Well not that anyone cares here's my story so far. Wed. English H went well (thank god for Heaney) Thu Maths (o) paper 1 was impossible failed! Irish paper 1 (o) was ok as was paper 2 on Friday. Saturday and Sunday studied maths for about 25 hours. Went to bed Monday mornin at about 4 o'clock. Made a hash of maths paper 2! then fell asleep in geography (Higher) but still got through it anyway. Now its biology on wednesday (yipee) All you can do folks is hold your head up high. I just failed maths AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!
- Jason OCallaghan
• Honours Maths2 was such a joke esp q 4 and 8.I mean 8(c).....what's going on there. Such a waste of time even studying for it ... it was evil and far too time consuming. But since everyone found it hard I don't feel too bad. Some ppl in my school werent even told about the change to Q1 I mean thats such a mess. People shouldn't be coming out crying from exams, its not on. If I fail there will be war
- Damn Maths
• Well never thought I would get through to Monday. Thats Home Ec, Maths, Irish and English over forever. Only Biology, French, History and Music left! Irish paper 1 (higher) was v. hard, and Maths (ordinary) was also v. hard. Home Ec wasn't too bad (higher) and neither was English (higher) but I'll give ye more info after history and biology I think the story will be drastically changed at that stage!!!!!
- Michelle Burke
• Life is cooler than cool. the Junior Cert is just like any of the christmas or summer exams we did. It's actually a good laff sitting in the exam hall with those seriously easy papers, innit?
- shakespeareswaywithwords
• JC (h) French tape woz handy. De readin comp bout de festival ting woz a bit hard. REALLY don wanna go back 'n do History now. HELP. One word FAIL.
- Anon
• The LC is going brutal for me, Im definitely repeating next year ... The worst has been English Pass Paper 2.
- Neill