Congratulations to our Biology teacher Wesley Hammond on the publication of his new book Bridge the gap – Transition Year Biology. Wesley has created this book to help 4th year students to bridge the widening gap between Junior Cycle Biology…
Reaction to Leaving Cert 2021 Biology (Higher Level) by Wesley Hammond, Biology teacher at The Institute of Education. A very fair, clear paper with few surprises. Some of the tougher topics such as genetics and plant reproduction were very manageable…
Reaction to Leaving Cert 2019 Biology (Higher Level) by Susan Silke, Biology teacher at The Institute of Education. A broad but fair paper. Language used was nice and clear. There were questions on large sections of the course. Some of…
Reaction to Leaving Cert 2018 Biology (Higher Level) by Jean Kelly, Biology teacher at The Institute of Education. Many of the questions on the Higher Level paper were quite specific and focused on smaller parts of the syllabus. There was…
Reaction to Leaving Cert 2017 Biology (Higher Level) by Mona Murray, Biology teacher at The Institute of Education Overall a challenging paper that covered every corner of the course. An inventive paper, wide ranging in its content. It looked…
Comment/ analysis on Biology (Higher Level) from Mona Murray, Biology teacher at The Institute of Education A tough paper, which spanned a wide variety of topics on the syllabus and required students to have an in-depth knowledge of the…
Comment/ analysis on Biology (Higher Level): Susan Silke, Biology teacher at The Institute of Education. A well balanced paper that required a good depth of knowledge. It was a long paper that would have taken quite some time for…
Comment/ analysis on Biology (Higher Level) from Mona Murray, Biology teacher at The Institute of Education A well balanced paper, that required a good depth of knowledge. Some nice contemporary issues appeared, including the role of DNA in horse meat…
David Bourke, who has been teaching Biology at The Institute of Education for 40 years, explains the distribution of questions on the Biology paper and advises how students should approach each section… COMMON ERRORS Make sure not to change the…
Review of Biology Higher Level paper by Mona Murray, Biology teacher at The Institute of Education. The questions asked were very precise and required a clear, accurate and comprehensive knowledge of the biology syllabus. The paper was quite deceptive. At…