Leaving Cert students say they are relieved with clarity and choice, but some issues remain

File image of a Leaving Cert exam. File image of a Leaving Cert exam. A DECISION WAS reached yesterday on this year’s Leaving Certificate, with students having the option to sit an exam in each subject or receive a calculated grade.

Aoife Devlin, a Leaving Cert student from Sligo, said that the finalised plan made her “happier than I thought I would be”. Teachers used their students’ past exam results, essays, project work and practicals to assess what grade students would have received if they had sat the traditional Leaving Cert.

These are due to take place over a number of days during the Easter break or thereafter, the Department of Education said yesterday. Half of the 3,200 students surveyed said they were unhappy the practical and oral exams were going ahead. “If this announcement was made eight weeks earlier and a decision on the Leaving Cert was in place before the lockdown… students could have had time to prepare a decision in regards to orals,” he said.

“In essence, students are pleased and happy to see there has been a choice offered when this wasn’t even on the table a month ago,” he said.

Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)

I'm glad they are,I really am,but now the teachers are bamboozled,it's obvious those in power are detached from the reality of rolling this MENU of education in three months of teaching that's left,I've spoken to many teachers the last few days and the qns are endless edchatie

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