‘A little tricky’
Mr Girdham said the question on Boland was “a little tricky” but that the expected appearance of Heaney would have “sent the country home happy” and the Durcan question was “a doddle [with students asked about] tone and mood expressing emotions”.
Candidates who answered poetry also had to take on the unseen poem. “Louise Greig’s How to Construct an Albatross had an arresting title and was an interesting one,” said Mr Girdham.
“I think that this may have disconcerted quite a few candidates; it’s certainly testing, but it was a good choice.”
Paul McCormack, an English teacher at the Institute of Education in Dublin, said that the single text questions on King Lear were “beautiful and subtle questions that challenged candidates to think carefully and use their argumentative writing skills effectively”.

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