Leaving Cert English paper 1: Where education is serious business...

Leaving Cert English paper 1: the verdict - Education News | Primary, Secondary & Third Level | The Irish Time - Wed, Jun 04, 2014: "Before the first English paper had even begun, students’ minds were already leaping ahead to the following day’s exam, and the all important question of which poets will appear on the paper. Today, over 37,000 students were shocked to discover an article by Seamus Heaney appearing on higher level English Paper One. Post exam, students immediately took to Twitter to indulge in fevered speculation about whether his poems are now less likely to appear on tomorrow’s English paper. Should they now focus on Emily Dickinson and Elizabeth Bishop? Was this all just a cruel trick?
The answer, says Evelyn O’Connor, founder of leavingcertenglish.net and a teacher in Mount Saint Michael’s Secondary School in Claremorris, is that Heaney’s surprise appearance changes nothing. “Different examiners set the different papers. Predicting which poets will appear is a mug’s game.”"



'via Blog this'