Stacy Stout

Good morning.

Thank you for having me.

I think they're all right.

They have worked hard.

They're well prepared.

They know the material.

They'll be fine.

I think a lot of the time it's just kind of the lead up to it is almost worse than doing it themselves.

I have faith in them.

They should have faith in themselves.

They'll be grand.

The parents are nearly as nervous as the kids.

But again, have faith in the kids.

The kids have worked hard.

It'll all be fine.

So question one on the Leaving Cert History paper is the DBQ or the document based question.

This is worth 20% of their grade and it is meant to help students.

Over the last few years, however, for some reason, students don't particularly like this question.

I don't know, is it because it looks busy on the page, there's lots of text, there's lots of different parts to it or what, but they've grown to dislike it.

And so I really think students need to kind of almost alter their thinking when they approach the DBQ because the question is there to help students collect and gather marks.