Leaving Cert art, visual studies: Students needed to be methodical in addressing all elements of questionsThe second year of the new art: visual studies exam gave students “an accommodating paper whose transparent questions encouraged higher-order thinking,” according to Declan Kelly, a teacher at the Institute of Education.
Students had more clarity entering the exam has this year compared to last year and would have been primed to the demands of this new paper.”Yoga, pilates, coding clubs: schools encouraged to make facilities available to the wider communitySection A of the paper asked students to display their knowledge of the language of art elements and the principle of design.
Students were asked to consider what is meant by a “successful career” in art, the advantages of print editions and what makes an exhibition popular to the general public.