Adamstown Community College
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Twitter was a bloodbath after impossible maths paper
- Education
- June 6, 2015, 01:00
Disaster. I knew it was going to be bad, but it was worse. Ordinary maths was just question after impossible question. The way they were phrased, it w(...)

Leaving Cert maths: Fury at ordinary level paper
- Education
- June 5, 2015, 19:16
Teachers and students have reacted with fury and upset to this year’s ordinary level maths paper, while those taking the higher level paper were gener(...)

Junior Cert geography and maths 1: Rocks and a hard place
- Education
- June 5, 2015, 18:49
There was no sign of Bono on the Junior Cert geography higher-level paper - the only major rock groups were igneous and sedimentary. Nevertheless, (...)

Leaving Cert geography: Blurred maps mar an otherwise perfect landscape
- Education
- June 5, 2015, 13:00
Blurry maps and poor definition aerial photographs marred an otherwise perfect higher level geography paper, according to teachers. Valerie Red(...)

Student diary: No surprises or upsets and students screamed with delight
- Education
- June 5, 2015, 06:00
“Ssshh . . . your sisters are studying!” That’s been the refrain in my house for the last few months. I’m doing the Leaving Cert; my sister is in the (...)

Leaving Cert Diary: Bono, and other unexpected eggs
- Education
- June 4, 2015, 05:30
I have spent the last year trying to delete U2’s Songs of Innocence from my iPad. Damned if I’m going to kick off my Leaving Cert with a question on B(...)

It was to be a model town. Adamstown, at the edge of the Dublin-Kildare border, was hailed as a well-planned new community where families and young p(...)

Leaving Cert diarists: on the home stretch for the exams
- Education
- May 29, 2015, 12:00
Adamstown Community College, the local co-educational post-primary in he “model town”, Adamstown, on the Dublin-Kildare border, is a very different(...)