THE LEAVING CERT gets underway this morning for almost 60,000 Leaving Cert and Leaving Cert Applied students.
Minister for Education Ruairi Quinn offered his best wishes to all those sitting the exams today, saying that the students are finally getting “the opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge, understanding and skills across a range of areas.”
“This marks an important milestone in their lives,” Quinn said, adding though that he hoped the students would “keep the exams in perspective”.
Exams have been set in 90 curricular subjects as well as another 15 non-curricular, including Polish, Lithuanian and Romanian. The number sitting the non-curricular language exams is up by over a quarter, according to the Examiner. Of these exams, Polish is the most popular, with 582 students taking the exam this year. Next is Lithuanian with 257 students sitting the paper.
Students sitting the non-curricular language exams must speak that language as a mother tongue and must also sit the English paper.
In contrast, the number of Leaving Cert students sitting the Higher Level Maths papers is expected to drop to its lowest ever after the exams body received fewer applications for the exam this year than ever before.
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