Ms Brigid O'Sullivan:

I also want to talk about the same topic. In junior certificate, I found that my teachers made much more effort toward active learning and doing projects. This was especially the case with history, where we did a lot of projects to understand topic better. We are a great deal more restricted at leaving certificate. The junior certificate course runs from first year to third year but with the leaving certificate is covered in bulk over fifth and sixth year. It is a lot more rote learning and we are really restricted by the curriculum. I feel it is really not possible to do the same with both cycles. The curriculum would have to change because during junior certificate cycle we had a lot more time to delve into projects and things like that. For leaving certificate cycle, it is lot of learning, doing tests and then more learning.