31 thoughts on “You May Now Turn Over Your Paper”

  1. LC1234

    The headline is not even the worst part: ‘Is it possible to devise a selection mechanism that’s fairer than the CAO. It’s transparent and objective but only fair if you believe wealthier students who can pay for grinds and extra tuition, is fair.” How about adding a question mark to the first sentence and then completely rewriting the second sentence so that it actually makes sense. Mark: Fail.

    2. Mel Healy

      The final line of the article is an epic fail too: “Until kids from Ranelagh see as many kids from Darndale at fresher’s week we cannot keep pretending educational apartheid runs deep.”

      1. LC1234

        The entire article is badly written. There is this gem too: ‘For students teachers and commentators it appears an unpredictable exam is a bad exam as it means students can’t rehash their learned off colour coded notes or prepared essays.” Ever heard of commas? They should add this article to the syllabus and ask students to point out everything wrong with it and rewrite it as a piece that makes sense.

  2. Bertie "the inexplicable pleasure" Blenkinsop

    It’s just a typo, no sense getting a dee in your bonnet about it.

  3. Boj

    Are we allowed to type comments today? I hope it was a production issue rather than heavy censorship going on yesterday.

    2. bisted

      …just noticed one of my comments from yesterday is gone…a fairly innocuous one at that…explanation needed Broadsheet…

          3. mildred st. meadowlark

            Invention something something mother of necessarily or something.

            I do have a great one. Sackmuncher. Asspixie. Clunchduster.

          4. bisted

            …hah…just got moderated for using t***biscuit…I must be on the naughty list…I’m not even as naughty as Teresa May…

    1. salmon of nollaig

      You sound like an old solicitor in the showers in Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis club.

    2. Anomanomanom

      THE problem is its nothing more than a work out for memory, expect for maths, you can be really have no clue of the subject and pass easily. I’ll explain, my history basically predicted fairly accurately what essay questions would come up, but he got us to write and rewrite and rewrite 10 different essays question answers. Id literally just memorised what he told me to write,in my own words, 4 of the essay came up and 3 of the paragraph question were based on essays id wrote. I got a b2, im thick as fuck when it comes to history, but again a b2.

  5. salmon of nollaig

    Before the property market, the Irish Times cruelly exploited this exam to sell papers.

    The Times… those who never emigrated ruining the lives of successive generations of young Irish people.

  6. Rugbyfan

    I did the leaving cert once. Maths formulae and Shakespeare came and went however Peig Sayers will be with me forever……..

  7. Spaghetti Hoop

    The Leaving Cert curriculum is a great general education. Still remember all me poems, some of me theorems and a hape of geography.

    1. bertie "The Inexplicable Pleasure" blenkinsop

      29 years since I did the Leaving.
      How did that happen?

          1. mildred st. meadowlark

            I’d expect no less from the inexplicable pleasure that is your own self, Bert :)

    2. rotide

      Apparently Paul Durcan is on the syllabus now,. Fancy that.

      Bertie, Thanks for making me feel young! (by 2 years)

      1. Bertie "the inexplicable pleasure" Blenkinsop

        I watched bits of the Manchester concert at the weekend, it that didn’t make you feel old nothing will.

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