Reaction to Leaving Certificate 2021 Accounting (Higher Level) by Ray O’Loughlin, Accounting teacher at The Institute of Education. Candidates who decided to sit the higher level accounting paper, as opposed to getting calculated grades, were rewarded today. All the questions…
Reaction to Leaving Certificate 2019 Economics (Higher Level) by Ray O’Loughlin, Economics teacher at The Institute of Education. Overall quite a nice paper. The even split of four micro and four macro questions would have been very well received by…
Reaction to Leaving Certificate 2019 Accounting (Higher Level) by Ray O’Loughlin, Accounting teacher at The Institute of Education. A very straightforward, uncomplicated paper. Students who prepared well will be pleased with this exam. In line with one of its basic…
Reaction to Leaving Certificate 2018 Economics (Higher Level) by Ray O’Loughlin, Economics teacher at The Institute of Education. One of the nicest, most student friendly economics papers in years. A very fair examination of the syllabus. There was an equal…
Reaction to Leaving Certificate 2018 Accounting (Higher Level) by Ray O’Loughlin, Accounting teacher at The Institute of Education. Generally a fair test of students’ ability to record and analyse transactions, cost proposed projects and prepare budgets going forward. With the…
Reaction to Leaving Cert 2017 Economics (Higher Level) by Ray O’Loughlin, Economics teacher at The Institute of Education. In line with recent years, this Economics exam paper was very challenging and required a lot of lateral thinking and applied knowledge.…
Reaction to Leaving Cert 2017 Accounting (Higher Level) by Ray O’Loughlin, Accounting teacher at The Institute of Education. Generally Accounting students who prepared well, studied all aspects of the course and chose their questions carefully would have found little difficulty…
Comment/ analysis on the Economics paper (Higher Level) by Ray O’Loughlin, Economics teacher at The Institute of Education A fairly well-balanced paper. Section A was particularly student friendly. Continuing last year’s trend, the paper contained an amount of non-textbook…
Comment/ analysis on the Accounting paper (Higher Level) from Ray O’Loughlin, Accounting teacher at The Institute of Education Although the topics examined on the paper were fair, the questions asked were reasonably challenging. Many of the anticipated topics came…
Comment/ analysis on Economics paper (Higher Level) by Ray O’Loughlin, Economics teacher at The Institute of Education A fairly well-balanced paper that gave good scope to hard working students to showcase their knowledge and ability. In line with last…
Comment/ analysis on Economics paper (Higher Level) by Ray O’Loughlin, Economics teacher at The Institute of Education In line with last year, this was a very challenging paper, with some very high-end questions, bordering on third level standard. Even well…
Ray O’Loughlin, who has been teaching Accounting at The Institute of Education for 9 years, advises students to prepare for this section, as it is manageable, ‘like diagnosing a patient in many ways’, and will ensure that they have…