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# exams - Wednesday 22 May, 2013
Top 10 tips for healthy living during exams
Pharmacy union offers tips for avoiding health problems during exams…which includes paying a visit to your pharmacy.
# exams - Thursday 28 March, 2013
Dept. of Education to overhaul Leaving Cert programme and points race
Plans include reducing the number of degree programmes, cutting grade bands and changing the predictability of exams.
# exams - Tuesday 22 January, 2013
8 funny wrong answers kids have given on tests
What is a nitrate? You might be surprised…
# exams - Wednesday 12 September, 2012
Almost 59,000 teens to receive Junior Cert results today
There are thousands of nervous households this morning as students get graded on their first State exams.
# exams - Thursday 30 August, 2012
Harvard launches plagiarism investigation into over 100 students
Alarm was raised by teaching assistant who noticed suspicious similarities between students’ papers.
# exams - Thursday 16 August, 2012
‘Who needs a Leaving Cert?’ The best tweets from results day (and night)
How it all looked on Twitter.
# exams - Wednesday 15 August, 2012
Do you use what you learn in school… after you leave school?
The Leaving Cert results have been occupying the minds of over 55,000 students today – TheJournal.ie team reflects on how much of the senior cycle curriculum we go on to use in real life…
Poll: Do you think Leaving Certificate results are important?
Almost 56,000 students will be getting their results today – but do Leaving Cert results affect your future?
# exams - Tuesday 14 August, 2012
Sausage rolls and Samuel L Jackson: Leaving Cert result nerves kick in
Feeling the nerves about tomorrow’s Leaving Cert results? Don’t worry – you’re not alone.
Column: ‘I fear failing expectations’ – how the Leaving Cert results wait feels
Shelley Stafford describes the strange sensation of being in limbo, counting the days until that fateful envelope arrives.
Need advice on your Leaving Cert results?
Guidance counsellors will be manning the 2012 Exam Helpline to provide information for students, parents and teachers.
# exams - Monday 13 August, 2012
Calls for greater vigilance of alcohol sales ahead of Leaving Cert results
Parents have been reminded of the influential they can play in guiding their children’s drinking behaviour by leading by example, discussing the topic of alcohol openly, setting out clear rules for them.
# exams - Sunday 12 August, 2012
5 alternative sixth year holiday ideas
Leaving Certificate students have worked hard, now where are they going to play hard? Here are some less than ordinary sixth year holiday destinations.
# exams - Wednesday 27 June, 2012
Column: Why the Leaving Cert is broken… by someone who just took it
Patrick Kelleher, who finished his exams last week, explains why the system needs a complete overhaul.
# exams - Monday 11 June, 2012
Contingency papers arrive at schools for today’s Leaving Cert Irish exams
Schools are collecting replacement papers for this afternoon’s exam after a security breach last week.
# exams - Friday 8 June, 2012
Some Junior Cert students played CD for Irish Leaving Cert aural exam
The State Examinations Commission will now issue a new paper and CD for Irish Leaving Cert students sitting paper one on Monday.
‘Worst day ever’: Leaving Cert students react to English Paper Two
Some people weren’t too happy about the examiners’ choices. Here’s how they reacted on Twitter.
# exams - Thursday 7 June, 2012
Minister to consider letting ‘crisis’ students sit exams later
The issue of allowing Leaving Cert students to take an exam after missing it due to a ‘crisis’, rather than having to re-do their year of study, is to be considered by the Minister of State for Education.
# exams - Wednesday 6 June, 2012
Over to you: what advice do you have for people doing the Leaving Cert?
The first day of exams is officially over. Got any suggestions for how students can relax and get through the rest of them?
Leaving Cert students asked to reflect during ‘challenging’ English exam
The theme for today’s higher level paper was Memories.
Students advised to take care of mental health over exam period
Students undertaking Junior and Leaving Cert exams have been reminded to talk about any stress they might be feeling, eat a healthy diet and get enough sleep over the next two weeks.
# exams - Friday 1 June, 2012
Fewer students to sit this year’s Leaving Cert
Over 50,000 students, 13 days, 3.1 million exam papers, 105 subjects. Shudder.
# exams - Thursday 22 December, 2011
Exam board to address Leaving Cert ‘predictability’
A report published by the Department of Education today was critical of “rote learning” and highlighted the common practice of memorising pre-packaged answers.
# exams - Saturday 17 December, 2011
Column: Our school system is broken – we need to look beyond exams
Irish students are falling behind, forcing companies to look abroad for staff. But a new approach could change that, writes University of Limerick founder Ed Walsh.
# exams - Thursday 3 November, 2011
Junior Cert to be significantly changed under new scheme
Minister of Education gives his approval to NCCA’s proposals to change the focus of the Junior Cert from rote learning and state exams.
# exams - Friday 21 October, 2011
The 9 at 9: Friday
Nine things to know this morning…
Teachers welcome delay in changes to Junior Cert
Minister for Education Ruairà Quinn has said the introduction of a limit on subjects for Junior Cert students will not be rolled out until 2014.
# exams - Tuesday 18 October, 2011
Teachers say Junior Cert reform plans ‘would do more damage than good’
The Teachers’ Union of Ireland warns that plans to reform the exams, including limiting the subjects to 8, could damage education.
# exams - Wednesday 21 September, 2011
Leaving Cert study ‘leaves students stressed and with narrow education’
The system has come under fire in a wide-ranging new study which says many teachers simply ‘cover the course’.
# exams - Wednesday 14 September, 2011
Almost 60,000 Junior Cert students to receive results
There has been an increase in the number of pupils sitting higher level maths and science.
# exams - Friday 26 August, 2011
Poll: Should exams matter less in the Junior Certificate?
Many Junior Cert exams are likely to be replaced with portfolio-based assessments under new proposals currently being considered. What do you think – should exams matter less in the Junior Certificate?
Exams likely to be downgraded in radical Junior Cert reforms
A new system of portfolio-based assessment is “on the cards”, the Department of Education has confirmed.
# exams - Wednesday 17 August, 2011
Take 5: Wednesday
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
In numbers: how Ireland’s students fared in Leaving Cert 2011
Which subjects had the best pass rates? Which had the fewest taking higher level? We’ve crunched the numbers to find out.
In photos: Teenagers get their Leaving Cert results
With 58,000 students picking up their results today, here’s how some of them reacted…
Does the Leaving Cert really count?
All the advice Leaving Cert students are being given this morning… from ‘keep calm and carry on’ to wearing machine-washable shoes tonight.
Poll: Do you think the Leaving Cert results are important?
The Leaving Cert results are out – but do the grades you achieve in the State’s second-level finals really affect the rest of your life?
# exams - Monday 8 August, 2011
Calls for marking state exams to be part of teachers’ jobs
Teachers who choose to mark exam papers during the summer are paid extra on top of their salaries. There are calls for the bonus payments system to be reviewed.
# exams - Sunday 3 July, 2011
Column: Dear student, the Leaving Cert is damaging your brain
Economics lecturer Stephen Kinsella on second-level education’s “wheel of regurgitation” – and why the next generation of decision-makers must get rid of it.
Poll: Do you think the Leaving Cert should be scrapped?
An American academic has criticised our second-level senior cycle as “dysfunctional”. Do you agree with him?
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