ONE could almost say wunderbar after yesterday's Junior Cert German papers. Ms Jackie Kenny, a German teacher at Castlerea Community School in Co Roscommon, said that the ordinary-level paper was "very manageable" and "very fair". Students were very happy with it - "they found nothing difficult in it, they understood everything".
On the higher-level paper students found that the letter they got in Section III was "quite difficult but they ploughed through it". Parts B and C of this section, were satisfactory. The comprehension was also "a little bit harder than their mock or past years," said Ms Kenny. "However, it was a fair paper. It has to be a little bit difficult." There were no outstanding problems with the tape work at either level, she said.
Ms Eileen Brennan, a teacher at Greendale Community School in Kilbarrick, Dublin, said that students at both levels were happy with their papers. She did have one or two quibbles - and, she said, it was a pity that section A and B on the tape were not played a third time as with sections C, D and E.
As to the higher level, the paper was challenging but manageable. Section G in the ordinary-level paper was a long passage and there was no indication after each question as to where the answer was, unlike a similar question on the higher-level paper.