Students will receive results based on accredited grades, exams or both this year Expand Leaving Cert students this year had the choice of sitting written exams, opting for accredited grades, or both, across individual subjects. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill ...
[ Key dates for Leaving Cert 2024: Results, script viewing, appeals and offersOpens in new window ] Grades began to soar in 2020 and 2021 due, mainly, to the use of teacher-predicted grades, and they have been artificially kept at that level ever since. While it may ...
Another issue raised was the fact that around one in four of this year's Leaving Certificate students do not have Junior Cert results which could have been used as a metric in awarding accredited grades. Over the past two years, Junior Cert marks had been used as a benchmark but because ...
The students had a number of concerns. They wanted clarity and certainty. I have answered both of those valid concerns by making this announcement earlier than last year. "To alleviate this concern, I have asked the SEC to put in place measures to ensure that the overall set of results in...
Carl O'Brien Fri Jan 29 2021 - 14:46It is the question 60,000 students and their parents all want to know: what’s going to happen with the Leaving Cert? Until recently, Minister for Education Norma Foley said it was the Government's "firm intention" to press ahead with...