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LAST UPDATE | 30 Aug 2019
THERE HAS BEEN huge increase in the number of Leaving Cert students who have appealed results this year.
The State Examinations Commission has said that 9,049 students have appealed more than 17,037 grades.
That’s a 74% increase on the number of students appealing compared to last year, when 5,197 candidates appealed results.
Overall, 16% of Leaving Cert students this year have appealed results, up from 9% last year.
Per subject, over 17,037 grades have been appealed this year compared to 9,087 last year, an 87% increase.
Higher level Biology has seen the largest number of appeals this year with 2,092 followed by Higher Level Irish, English and Maths.
Last year, 16% of papers that were appealed were upgraded. There were just five downgrades.
The huge upsurge in the number appeals this year comes after changes were made to the CAO timeline this year following a High Court case last year.
The legal action was taken by student Rebecca Carter, who won a judicial review case to have her amended results considered by the State Examinations Commission.
Her results had been incorrectly totted up meaning her points score fell marginally short of achieving that necessary to earn a place studying veterinary medicine at UCD.
Carter claimed that under the previous timeframe for processing appeals, she would have not been able to commence that course in the current academic year, but would have instead been required to accept a deferred offer for the following year.
The State Examinations Commission has acknowledged that the appeals process “has been in focus since last year”, contributing the upsurge in students availing of it.
“The SEC has been very active in alerting examination candidates to the revised timelines this year which has heightened awareness of the viewing and appeals processes among candidates,” it said.
“The services were also more accessible to candidates as the viewing and appeals applications were provided online through the portal. For the first time this year, candidates were provided with the marks that they achieved in all subjects including the individual component marks in multi component subjects.”
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And that was our Summer!
@C H: Not had for Spring, though!
Best of luck to Leixlip/Lucan in their walk today to save St Catherines Park! The gov and councillors doing nothing to destroy this amenity and the area of Leixlip
@C H: how else are things in the future CH? Because it’s still splittin the stones here. Any chance of next week’s Lotto numbers PM me for God’s sake don’t post ‘em.
@C H: Jeeze. There’s three months of actual summer still to go! There’s been more sun in the last week than you’d usually get in almost a month in Dublin. We’re not doing too badly.
Any longer and the Government will stick a Tax on it
@cormac o neill: Government blah blah ….do this….. blah blah do that …….change the bloody record.
@cormac o neill: enjoy the sun misery guts……
@cormac o neill:
Always someone who brings the Government into it
@cormac o neill: sap.
Journal will you please do a fact check and find out if there’s good drying out. Thanks
@Matty kinevan: yep there is did two loads of washing and dried the lot for free on the line between the garage and the ESB pole. Then made a pot of nettle tea friend of mine countryman showed me how to pick just the tips of the nettles from the ditch between ours and next field without getting stung. I mentioned to him an article read in the Journal this week and he said O yes my mother in law swore by it and I offered my mother a cup and she said God my grandfather swore by it so we all had some. Lovely. And free drying. Couldn’t be better unless found a way to make the washing machine work for free too.
@John O’Driscoll: I’ve made nettle soup a few times. Very nice, similar to spinach. Try a schneaky extension lead going into your neighbours gaff and run the washing machine off that. Bish bash bosh.
@Matty kinevan: what extension lead? It’s an 1892 model. My elderly mother cranks the handle and the drum and mangle goes round with my clothes in. The cast iron’s getting a bit heavy for her now she’s nearly in her 80s but I should get a few years more out of her yet. It’s feedin’ her in between washes is the cost. So you were saying about nettle soup like spinach again is there a recipe you can give me?
relax it its a sunday , chillax shoot the breeze
@Seamus Davey: What breeze?
@Paraic McDonagh:
Grand breeze here on curacloe beech
Was going to do a bit of sanding and varnishing round my mum and late dad’s home today but a friend who’s more church-going than me said ”It’s not a cow caught in a ditch. Relax it’s Sunday.” In Israel you can’t even press the buttons on a lift so suppose driving down to the village to get a few beers to split with my mother and sister is a mortaller in some views. Take me chances. Great excuse for lazin on a sunny Sunday afternoon. Sometimes religion makes a jot or tittle of sense.
Some belter of a day. Can’t wait to see all the cider heads with the big red raw heads in work tomorrow. “Bar garden weather bud”
@Science of beer: Big pint of water and two Solpadeines no probs mate. Make sure it’s not a small pint is all.
@John O’Driscoll: Before bed as in.
Its 23 here.
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