Leaving Cert business exam: ‘Students had to think on their feet’Keith Hannigan, a business teacher at the Institute of Education, said the paper drew on the familiar but asked students to think on their feet.
“However, the occasional new question would have challenged students to think on their feet and maybe alter their plan for how to approach the later sections,” he said.subject expert and a teacher at De La Salle College in Dundalk, said that students would be happy with a “lovely” paper. “Many students worry about the Applied Business Question but will have been relieved by the approach the question setter took,” said Mr Hannigan.Ms Keenan said that some students might struggle to get full marks for a part of this question which asked them to define the term “contract”.