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• Exam demanded students to think ‘outside their textbooks’, says teacher

  A lot of independent thinking and knowledge of a wide range of topical issues was required of students sitting the Leaving Certificate Economics Higher Level paper, according to Keith Hannigan of The Institute of Education.

• Exam diary: Leaving Cert pupils of today are fully aware of the downsides of overworking

  After physics, I sprung my unyielding study to its next victim: Spanish.

• JC Metalwork: Teachers hope subject will survive in reform

  JUNIOR Certificate metalwork candidates had a good day of it with their exam and teachers expressing the hope that the subject doesn't decline in popularity when Junior Cert reform is introduced.