Perhaps not surprisingly, Covid made an appearance on both Leaving Cert Biology papers. Siobhan Devaney, an Association of Secondary Teachers’ Ireland (ASTI) subject representative, also welcomed the “real world” question about Covid. “The early feedback I am getting from students is they found the level of detail required in some questions to be challenging. Wesley Hammond, a teacher at The Institute of Education, Dublin, described higher level as a “very clear paper with questions that were nicely phrased”. Mr Saunders said despite the extra choice, “students would have found some parts within these questions quite challenging.

Source: Irish Independent June 15, 2021 20:03 UTC