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Empathy for students facing Sunday exams

A reader voices concern over the stress of scheduling state exams on weekends

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Sir, – I wish to empathise with Caoimhe Buckley (Bad timing on Spanish Oral: Letters to the Editor; March 31st). Holding such a potentially life-altering exam on a Sunday and especially last Sunday is fraught with traps for those distracted by stress.

I hope her letter is circulating to those who set the schedules for state exams emblazoned with the words: “Think laterally”. – Yours, etc,

JOHN HILLERY,

Blackrock,

Co Dublin.