Junior Cert business - post-mortem: Yesterday's Junior Certificate higher-level business studies paper was similar in style to previous years. However, some of the questions were challenging.
Ms Norah Martyn, president of the Business Studies Teachers' Association of Ireland (BSTAI) and business teacher in Marian College, Dublin 4, said that some of the questions were difficult and lengthy in wording.
The short-answer questions on the higher-level paper in particular were very challenging.
Normally questions one, two and three tend to ease students into the exam and settle them down a little, she said.
There was a question on club accounts on the paper, though students avoided this question because it was combined with petty cash.
Some teachers felt that questions on the higher-level paper were drifting away from the syllabus and towards Leaving Cert business and economics questions.
Though the paper was challenging, according to Ms Martyn, students were able to answer the required amount of questions.
Ms Ann-Marie Connolly (15), a student in Coláiste Eoin, Hacketstown, Co Carlow, said most of the questions on the paper covered one particular topic.
"Question 4 was a bit complicated," she told The Irish Times, "but I did an extra question because I had time."
Paper two for the business studies course was "fair and predictable" and students liked the paper.
Students taking the ordinary-level paper found it was generally similar to last year.