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I Sat the 2018 Leaving Cert Business Paper!

I Sat the 2018 Leaving Cert Business Paper!
I slowly dropped in to conversation with other teachers how I was planning to sit the Economics and Business papers in the Leaving Certificate – it garnered mixed reactions, some unsure as to the benefits, some in disbelief you’d spend two days of your summer holidays sitting an exam, and others developed a glazed over look in their eyes, with what looked like some type of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder you’d expect from a soldier that’s been to war, as they appeared to replay nightmare Leaving Cert scenarios behind their eyes! Reactions ranged from “Sure of course you’d get a H1” to “this will be very embarrassing if you don’t”, the grade wasn’t the main reason to sit the paper, so what was?