The fine weather is not helping nerves as thousands prepare to sit the Leaving Certificate.
The school state exams begin tomorrow and will continue until 19 June.
Leaving Certificate students in north county Dublin were finding the going tough with the distraction of sunshine as they revised everything from perpendicular unit vectors to English literature.
I think every Leaving Cert student in the country feels the same. Everyone's a little bit worried.
The advice from Peter Keohane, at The Donaghies Community School, is to get a good night's sleep and to relax.
Tomorrow at 9.30 am school halls throughout the country will be filled with just under sixty thousand Leaving Certificate candidates. The first examination is English Paper 1.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 2 June 2009. The reporter is Emma O'Kelly.
