A puzzler about distance and time was one of the few difficulties facing students on a fairly straightforward higher level science paper, teachers have said. “The theme of pollution was notable on the course,” said John Conneely, ASTI subject representative and a teacher at St Flannan’s College in Ennis, Co Clare. “These appeared on different parts of the course and included questions on acid rain, plastics pollution and noise pollution. “The biology sector would have been welcomed for having a relatively small proportion of plant biology questions, an area disliked by many. Try this at home: Junior Cert science, higher levelA student set up an experiment to show that there is water vapour in air.

Source: The Irish Times June 11, 2018 18:00 UTC