Reaction to 2025 Leaving Certificate History (Higher Level) by Stephen Tonge, History teacher at The Institute of Education. Questions with narrower focuses will require students to quickly edit and adjust their approach to topics. The reappearance of topics from…
Reaction to 2025 Leaving Certificate French (Higher Level) by Corinne Gavenda, French teacher at The Institute of Education. Trickier vocabulary and grammar questions in the 2nd Comprehension will test them more than usual. The absence of some predicted topics…
Reaction to 2025 Leaving Certificate Biology (Higher Level) by Wesley Hammond, Biology teacher at The Institute of Education. Students really needed to focus on the granular details of each chapter and the questions interrogated a broad span of details. …
Reaction to 2025 Leaving Certificate Irish Paper 2 (Higher Level) by Nuala Uí Cheallaigh, Irish teacher at The Institute of Education. Broad questions allow students lots of opportunities, but they would need to focus their approach to avoid losing…
Reaction to 2025 Leaving Certificate Irish Paper 1 (Higher Level) by Nuala Uí Cheallaigh, Irish teacher at The Institute of Education. The aural had familiar topics and questions. Broad aiste titles allowed students the scope to adapt their material…
Reaction to 2025 Leaving Certificate Maths Paper 2 (Higher Level) by Aidan Roantree, Maths teacher at The Institute of Education. Familiar topics will help students earn marks early on, but the challenges grew as the paper progressed. Students…
Reaction to 2025 Leaving Certificate Maths Paper 2 (Ordinary Level) by Jean Kelly, teacher at The Institute of Education. Unified topics within questions will help students build momentum Useful clarifications made the paper much more accessible than Paper 1 Students…
Reaction to 2025 Leaving Certificate Mathematics Paper 1 (Ordinary Level) by Jean Kelly, teacher at The Institute of Education. The core material was manageable but the students really need to read the questions carefully. This paper had everything thrown in…
Reaction to 2025 Leaving Certificate Maths Paper 1 (Higher Level) by Louise Boylan, teacher at The Institute of Education. A paper with an off-putting appearance but many manageable elements. Continues the trend of pulling material from unexamined areas of the…
Reaction to 2025 Leaving Certificate Geography (Higher Level) by Michael Doran, Geography teacher at The Institute of Education. Students will be relieved by the appearance of anticipated topics like deposition and human impact on biomes. Every section contained challenges that…
Reaction to 2025 Leaving Certificate English Paper 2 (Higher Level) by Clodagh Havel, English teacher at The Institute of Education. “Duality” seems to have been a hidden theme throughout. Some unusual vocabulary will have caused some to pause…
Reaction to 2025 Leaving Certificate English Paper 1 (Higher Level) by Liam Dingle, English teacher at The Institute of Education. The paper reflected the world beyond the exam hall and the experiences of modern students. The layout and range…