Group of Leaving Cert students call for exams to be cancelled
“They ran the A Levels during the War, but they still aren’t running it this year.” A group of over 60 Leaving Cert students are calling for the State Exams to be cancelled and to be replaced by “expected grades” assigned by their classroom teachers. It comes as students enter a second week of studying […]
6 years ago
History to be required Junior Cycle subject from September
A move that will be welcomed in many quarters. All schools in Ireland will be required to offer history as a Junior Cycle subject from September, following an announcement made by Minister for Education and Skills Joe McHugh on Tuesday. McHugh also revealed that all students entering first year from this September will be required to […]
6 years ago
QUIZ: How well do you remember Junior Cert business studies?
You’ll regret not listening in class now… It’s exam season for thousands of students around the country at the moment. The Junior Cert is well underway, and one of today’s exams is business studies. From first to third year there was no dividing of business subjects, accounting and economics were all piled into one big, […]
8 years ago
QUIZ: How well do you know your Junior Cert history?
Think you can pass? You need to get eight questions right. We’ve all had to sit the Junior Cert history exam – some might even know it as the Intermediate Cert – and while the format of the paper has changed over the years, one thing remains constant, 20 short questions to test your history […]
10 years ago