M7/01

To: Management Authorities of Second Level Schools

Prescribed Material for the Junior Certificate and Leaving Certificate

Examinations in 2003

The Department of Education and Science wishes to inform the management authorities of second-level schools that the prescribed material for the Junior Certificate and Leaving Certificate Examinations in 2003 is as indicated on the attached list. School authorities are reminded that it is very important that adequate notice of these texts is given to pupils before the start of the relevant school year.

John Dennehy

Secretary General

February 2001

The Junior Certificate, 2003

1. In the case of the subjects English; Music; Typewriting; Art, Craft, Design; Science; Home Economics; Environmental and Social Studies; Irish; Greek; Technical Graphics; Italian; Classical Studies; Spanish; Civic, Social and Political Education; Business Studies; History and Geography; Mathematics; Materials Technology (Wood); and Latin (see the prescribed material below), the examination in 2003 will be based on the Junior Certificate Syllabuses in those subject which have been issued to second-level school authorities.

2.  In the case of the subject Hebrew Studies the prescribed material for the Junior Certificate Examination in 2003 will be prescribed in that subject for the Junior Certificate Examination in 2002

Liadin don Teastas Sóisearach i 2003

(Latin for the Junior Certificate Examination in 2003)

Údar (Arthur) / Gnáth Leibhéal (Ordinary Level) / Sleachta sa bhreis don Ardleibhéal. (Additional for Higher Level)
- / - / -
Catullus / (V), (VI). / -
Ovid / (X), (XII), (XIII), (XXX), (XXXV) / (XXXIV), (XXXVI)
Virgil / (XXXIX), (XL), (XLII), (XLV) / (XXXVII), (XXXVIII), (XLI), (XLIII), (XLIV)
Sleachta (Extracts) 11; Línte (Lines) 125 / Sleachta (Extracts) 7; Línte (Lines) 81.

Ardteistiméireacht, 2003

An Ghaeilge

An cúrsa próis agus filíochta atá faofa don Ardteistiméireacht I 2003, tá eolas faoi le fáil in Imlitir M38/98 a eisíodh 21 Lúnasa 1998 (cóip leis seo).

Leaving Certificate Examination, 2003

English

The prescribed material for English in the Leaving Certificate Examination in 2003 is outlined in Circular Letter M2/01.

Latin

Leaving Certificate (Ordinary and Higher Levels) in 2003

Cicero, Pro Lege Manilia

Or

Virgil, Aeneid, Book I (Lines 1-519)

Greek

Leaving Certifidate (Ordinary Level) in 2003: As for 2002

Leaving Certificate (Higher Level):-

The Joint Association of Classical Teachers (J.A.C.T.) Greek Course: The Intellectual Revolution (Published by Cambridge University Press) - Page 118 - 139 inclusive. (Selections, in Greek and in translation, from Plato's Apology and Phaedo)

Or

The Joint Association of Classical Teachers (J.A.C.T.) Greek Course: A World of Heroes (Published by Cambridge University Press) - Pages 4-34, inclusive (Selections in Greek and in translation, from Homer's Iliad, Book XXII).

Hebrew Studies

Leaving Certificate in 2003:- As for 2002

Classical Studies

Leaving Certificate in 2003: - As for 2002

Italian

Leaving Certificate (Higher Level) in 2003:-

Le voci della sera by Natalia Ginzburg

Or

Marcovaldo by Italo Calvino

Spanish

Leaving Certificate (Higher Level) in 2003:-

José Luis Olaizola: Bibiana y su mundo (Publisher: S. M. Madrid)

Engineering

The topic prescribed for the Leaving Certificate Examination in 2003 is "Basic Principles and operation of compressors in refrigeration".