Reaction to 2025 Leaving Certificate Physical Education (Higher Level) by Brian Gregan, Physical Education teacher at The Institute of Education. The emphasis on popular topics will make students happy The paper had lots of choice, with even more internal…
Reaction to 2025 Leaving Certificate Economics (Higher Level) by Rob Quinlan, Economics teacher at The Institute of Education. Students who read the news in the first half of the year will recognise the key topic areas. A broad scope…
Reaction to 2025 Leaving Certificate Music (Higher Level) by Ciara Coleman, Music teacher at The Institute of Education. The inclusion of Irish artists in the listening section will be nicely familiar but the questions were challenging. This paper rewarded…
Reaction to 2025 Leaving Certificate Design and Communication Graphics (Higher Level) by Rob Kiernan, DCG teacher at The Institute of Education. A fair paper with the meat and potatoes of the course A paper that was true to form…
Reaction to 2025 Leaving Certificate Accounting (Higher Level) by John Taylor, Accounting teacher at The Institute of Education. Students will recognise all the question types from previous papers Students will need to be disciplined to manage their time Accounting…
Reaction to 2025 Leaving Certificate Physics (Higher Level) by Pat Doyle, Physics teacher at The Institute of Education. While there were many conventional elements to the paper, students were pushed by wordy questions and subtler mathematical twists. Some topics…
Reaction to 2025 Leaving Certificate Chemistry (Higher Level) by Tara Lyons, Chemistry teacher at The Institute of Education. An exam that will be familiar to those who had gone through the past papers. At the heart of the study…
Reaction to 2025 Leaving Certificate Spanish (Higher Level) by Maria Fenton, Spanish teacher at The Institute of Education. Students will find lots of topics and themes that they recognise. Some of the phrasing for the synonym questions required an…
Reaction to 2025 Leaving Certificate Agricultural Science (Higher Level) by Catriona Hendry, Agricultural Science teacher at The Institute of Education. Some curveballs in format but lots of viable choice Every Ag. Science paper needs a pause and breath in…
Reaction to 2025 Leaving Certificate Mandarin Chinese (Higher Level) by Yun Wu, Chinese teacher at The Institute of Education. This was a harder paper than previous years. Emphasis was on the practical applications of the language rather than abstract…
Reaction to 2025 Leaving Certificate German (Higher Level) by Orla Ní Shúilleabháin, German teacher at The Institute of Education. The material on the paper was more detached from the oral material than past exams Students needed to think outside…
Reaction to 2025 Leaving Certificate Art, Visual Studies (Higher Level) by Declan Kelly, Art teacher at The Institute of Education. Students will be thrilled by the early sections but the later essays will shake some students’ confidence. Section A…