Jean Kelly, a maths teacher, said that the ordinary-level paper was fair, modern and thoughtfully designed

Students were generally relieved with an approachable higher-level maths paper one, but the element of choice allowed them to swerve trickier questions, teachers said.

Second week of State exams begins for more than 140,000 students across junior and senior cycle

Jean Kelly, a maths teacher, said that the ordinary-level paper was fair, modern and thoughtfully designed

Hopefully, Leaving Cert students who left school halls drained and miserable last Friday after the higher-level maths paper were a little happier following the second paper

Prose and poetry questions were approachable but some of the reading comprehensions may have been challenging

Were they trying to ensure that students left the exam hall in tears? Or were put off higher-level maths forever?

Some feel the higher-level paper was accessible and fair, but others think it contained tricky vocabulary