Leaving Cert: Schools confident students will respect Covid measures as exams get under way Some 55,000 students expected to sit written exams, which begin today
about 9 hours ago
All desks must be at least two metres apart and in well-ventilated areas. Photograph: Laura Hutton
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School principals believe students will abide by safety measures that ban them from presenting for exams if they are required to self-isolate for Covid-19 reasons.
Almost 90 per cent of the 61,500 Leaving Cert candidates have opted to sit written exams, which begin on Wednesday across at about 800 schools and other venues.
A compulsory question on the higher-level home economics paper, which focused on how âhealth and wellbeingâ and âresponsible livingâ influence our food choices, has received a negative reaction from students. The question is worth a quarter of the overall grade.
âStudents are usually given a table which they can write about,â said Margaret Kinsella, ASTI subject representative and a teacher at Bunclody Vocational School in Co Wexford.
âThis year, they were given an infographic and they just werenât expecting it. They were asked about health and wellbeing and then, separately, about responsible living. They found the concepts ambiguous and hard to separate between.â
Students to receive CAO offers four days after Leaving Cert results Applicants will have less than a week to accept round one college offers
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Tens of thousands of college applicants are due to receive CAO first round offers four days after the Leaving Cert results are released.
The Central Applications Office (CAO) confirmed on Friday that offers will be made available online at 2pm on Tuesday, September 7th. Applicants will have just under a week to accept any offers .
The later issuing of offers follows the release of Leaving Cert results on Friday, September 3rd, about three weeks later than normal.