Mr. Preston Ó Caoimh:

-----because, again, it is all rote learning. When it comes to the exams, you are doing three or four essays and all you have to remember is dates, who did what and when something happened. However, if you are working on projects throughout the year, that is a much more effective way of learning and analysing how you are as a student because you will not remember everything you learn throughout two years of studying, for example, the 1916 Rising, the 1912 home rule and all that craic. In the likes of art and economics, too, in which we did a project, that could be greatly expanded. Other contributors mentioned Irish and all the modern foreign languages. I was very happy to be able to do an oral and an aural. When I had the oral done, I was so much more at ease because I knew I had a certain percentage of my overall grade already done. I am thinking of subjects like that where they are measuring your creativity and how you can write. It is the same with English. For the essay that you do in English, you will not remember everything at the end of the year, especially with two exams.