Eugene Murphy (Roscommon-Galway, Fianna Fail)
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Such assessment is a fantastic idea and well done to Mr. Farrell on the way he has addressed it here today. I will tell the committee why. In the past, I believe that many students failed an exam because they just could not face the stress of questions and trying to put the answers together. Assessments, however, gives them an opportunity to excel and many of them do excel in that area. We all accept that students need to do some written work. Written work is very good, but assessment gives a fair chance to the students who may not be able to handle sitting an exam for two or two and a half hours to try to answer. There are a considerable number of such students. It causes them a lot of stress. The assessments are really good.