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This date last year year saw highs of 25 degrees.
The exams commission has introduced new measures to safeguard the wellbeing of Leaving Certificate students.
As the Leaving Cert begins tomorrow, teachers and education experts are warning of growing anxiety among students.
Rhona Butler said the current process is not fair on the student, family or school involved.
Grades in the pillar subjects of Irish, English, and Maths remain relatively unchanged from previous years.
From 5.15pm tomorrow, applicants will no longer be able to change their preferences for the courses they would like to do.
A tweet from Leo Varadkar featured on the first ever exam.
Get plenty of sleep and exercise, and remember that anxiety is normal.
Students protested and held a sit-in over the attempt to introduce the fees.
A group of up to 40 students had been occupying the college’s dining hall over the past few days.
Our education system must deliver a quality education that prepares each child for their future lives, writes Geoffrey Browne.
Trinity students have released a list of demands.
Currently, students have two hours to complete each paper.
TheJournal.ie spoke to four Leaving Cert students in the countdown to the results.
Denis North is taking the English and Geography exams at Kennedy College, New Ross.
Fake news, democracy and inventing the wheel – how did the first day of State exams go?
I have never forgotten the idea that I needed to put in long hours if I wanted to achieve something, writes Caoimhín De Barra.
The SEC said that it would have sufficient numbers in place and did not want to “cause alarm” with the appeal.
An engineering student writes about how he is buckling under the strain of too many exams concentrated at the end of the academic year.
Some performed very well, while others struggled with basic vocabulary.
Everything must be organised and tidy before you can do any work whatsoever.
Make the new English Junior Cert exam fairer by adding thirty extra minutes, writes Junior Cert pupil Tara O’Sullivan.
Why’d you have to be in Cáca Milis, Brendan Gleeson? Why?
Black and decker black and decker black and decker…
There’s been a rise in As almost across the board for students.
We asked three recent graduates to write a letter to their former selves. Here’s what they had to say…
Over 500,000 high school students were required to resit exams after exam papers were leaked.
One reader tells us about her experiences of trying to overcome crippling anxiety during her Leaving Cert exams
Light a few there Granny.
More students have been opting to do the higher level paper in recent years.
“thou shalt not lotto”
And grades for the junior cycle appear to be holding steady against previous years, without massive improvement.
More than 35,000 people have accepted first round offers.
Pressure is on schools to receive top results, writes principal Brendan Feehan.
Read these while waiting for results, at your peril.
The hard work is over, now it’s time to find out how everyone did.
I only learned to appreciate education after quitting school.