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Leaving Cert

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2024
Teachers to protest outside schools to seek delay in implementing Leaving Cert reforms
The free schoolbooks scheme is being extended again (and booksellers aren't delighted)
Quiz: How well do you know your film and theatre history?
The second round of CAO points for 2024 have just been released. Find them all here
The Leaving Cert is getting two new subjects: Climate Action and Drama, Theatre and Film Studies
The CAO points for 2024 have just been released. Find them all here
CAO points are out today - find them all on The Journal from 2pm
Irish language at 'crisis point' after 2024 sees record number of pupils opt out of Leaving Cert exam
Quiz: How well do you know the Leaving Cert subjects?
Solicitor on Leaving Cert: I took the long route for my education and I have no regrets
Cian Moriarty
Poll: Do you remember your Leaving Cert results?
Results now available for more than 60,000 Leaving Cert students
Parenting: 'I can still vividly remember the stress, tears and dread of my Leaving Cert'
Margaret Lynch
Poll: Do you still have the 'Leaving Cert nightmare'?
Record number of Leaving Cert students to sit exams today - starting with English Paper 1
Poll: Should the Barbie movie be on the Leaving Cert English syllabus?
‘Barbie’ movie to be on Leaving Cert English curriculum in 2026
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Decision to hold Leaving Cert oral exams over Easter break will bring 'unnecessary' stress, unions say
'The AI excuse doesn't wash with me': Mixed reaction to plans to drop teacher-based assessment
Government drops plans for teacher-based assessment of Leaving Cert, blaming AI
CAO: 60% of courses see fall in point requirements
Therapist: It's been a summer of tragedy and loss for many young people
Monica Jackman
Poll: Do you remember how many points you got in your Leaving Cert?
Leaving Cert results: Grades adjusted upwards again due to pandemic disruption for students
Tributes to 'bright, sporting young men' after deaths of two Dublin students on Greek island
What lesson can we learn from our Leaving Cert nightmares?
Leaving Cert: Commentary over higher-level maths paper one 'will be considered during marking'
Quiz: How well do you remember Leaving Certificate syllabus?
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The Explainer: What is it like to sit the Leaving Cert in 2023?
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Leaving Cert 2023: Students begin exams with 'well-pitched and broadly appealing' paper
Poll: Do you have 'Leaving Cert nightmares'?
Over 130,000 students begin state examinations today - most sitting their first one ever
Leaving Cert 2023: Don't worry if you feel overwhelmed ahead of the exams, you're not alone
Fiona O'Malley
Quiz: How much do you know about Macbeth?
CAO Round One offers to be released on 30 August
Leaving Cert results to be issued on 25 August in 'significant step towards pre-pandemic norms'
Leaving Cert students ask Foley to keep 'no cliff edge' vow - and avoid clash with Harry Styles gig
Close to 19,000 individual Leaving Cert results appealed this year, with more than 20% upheld
‘I’m over the moon’: Dublin student gets top mark of 625 in Leaving Certificate
Leaving Cert 2022: Students urged not to 'obsess' over points as they open results