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Leaving Cert Students Can Register For Written Exams Today

Emma Tyrrell
Emma Tyrrell

06:58 28 Sep 2020


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Leaving Cert students unhappy with their results and wishing to do the traditional written exam in November can register from this morning.

The State Examinations Commission says they can sign up on the Calculated Grades Student Portal.

It comes after calculated grades were issued for the first time this year because of Covid-19.

Students have until 5pm on Friday to apply. The exams will run from Monday the 16th of November to Friday the 11th of December.

Guidance Counsellor Betty McLaughlin says they will take place outside of school hours this year;

"They will be sitting the exam in the school that they had entered prior to June so therefore the students couldn't be in school" she said.

Betty McLaughlin says the exams will take place on weekdays and weekends;

"From half five to roughly eight o'clock on school days and then on Saturdays and Sundays they will have two sittings, one in the morning and one in the afternoon."

Rankings

Meanwhile the Teachers Union of Ireland has reiterated it's concern this year's students will be able to see where they ranked in their class from today.

As part of the calculated grades process, teachers had to rank students from best to worst in terms of how they thought they would do in the exams.

The union says it was assured students would only see the information through a data access request or as part of an appeal.

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