Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 November 2017

Committee on Public Petitions

English Junior Certificate Examination: Discussion

1:30 pm

Ms Ellen McKimm:

We would like the additional 30 minutes to be added, a clear structure to be given and ensuring that an English examination assesses all aspects of the English curriculum such as the novel not coming up in our examination but poetry might not come up next year. It is vitally important to the English curriculum that students have a wide knowledge of English as a subject so the additional 30 minutes and a clearer structure should be hugely beneficial to teachers and students. It would definitely help.