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Leaving Cert accounting: ‘Testing, but manageable’

Additional choice gives students more time to focus on accuracy, say teachers

Leaving Cert physics: Some challenges and surprises

Exam posed a suitable challenge to stronger students, say teachers

Leaving Cert Spanish: Topical paper with a sprinkling of ‘magic’

Students who prepared essays based on previous papers would have been ready for the topics that arose.

Leaving Cert students sit first ever Chinese exam: ‘It’s definitely easier than Irish’

About 290 students sat the Mandarin Chinese paper on Monday

Leaving Cert results ‘likely’ to be issued in late August

Government sources signal release date, with examiner shortage one of several factors behind uncertainty

Leaving Cert student uses downtime to renovate pony box into new food truck business

Alice Kelly is planning a pop-up bakery run out of a vintage 18th-birthday present from her family

Student who left Leaving Cert exam due to medical emergency permitted to re-sit paper

Rules state that candidates who take ill during exam are not allowed access to deferred Leaving Cert papers

Laid-back Leaving Cert: Parents whose offspring opt out of points race pressure

'I don’t want hard roads for my kids but I can’t sit the exam for them’

Junior Cycle classics: Place of women in classical society features on exam paper

Classics challenges the patriarchy, teacher says

Junior Cycle engineering: Topical paper that made good use of graphics

A fair, challenging and enjoyable test for students, said teachers

Junior Cycle music: Plenty of choice in an ‘enjoyable’ exam

First common level exam was 'engaging' with variety of musical styles

Leaving Cert construction studies: Praise for an environment-focused paper

Use of natural light, design, solar panels and urban regeneration feature in a topical exam

Leaving Cert German: Fair, accessible and topical

This year’s changes meant students had more choice than ever

RTÉ news2day’s Mícheál Ó Scannáil: I walked out of higher level chemistry after 30 minutes

TV presenter says his construction teacher taught him maturity and respect.

Exams commission acknowledges error in Irish version of LC maths paper

Mistake meant question made ‘no sense’ and left some students ‘bewildered’, teachers say

Leaving Cert art: Student-friendly papers with lots of choice

‘It really gave students a strong platform to demonstrate their ability,’ said one teacher

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