JUNIOR Cert students had a glowing contentment about them" on the way home from school yesterday evening after completing their higher-level Greek paper.
Mr Michael Bevan, a Greek teacher at Gonzaga College, Dublin, said the paper had not given any of his students a problem. He was particularly pleased with the "unseen" and the comprehension passages "because they drew on aspects of the history course". He said a good range of grammatical concepts were examined and the construction of sentences into Greek was both testing and wide-ranging.
He found the ordinary-level paper "unsatisfactory" because of a number of misprints. "It could have been better proof-read, whereas I can detect no mistakes in the higher level."