# junior-certificate - Wednesday 13 September, 2017
Alcohol is a talking point.
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# junior-certificate - Monday 5 June, 2017
From organisational support to breathing exercises, there’s plenty a parent can do to help.
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# junior-certificate - Thursday 1 June, 2017
The SEC said that it would have sufficient numbers in place and did not want to “cause alarm” with the appeal.
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# junior-certificate - Wednesday 14 September, 2016
There’s been a rise in As almost across the board for students.
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# junior-certificate - Wednesday 8 June, 2016
The first exam for both sets of students this morning will be English paper 1.
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# junior-certificate - Friday 16 October, 2015
“It was like we both caught fire, spontaneous combustion, we were burning up together.”
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# junior-certificate - Thursday 10 September, 2015
Pamela Noonan sat her Junior Cert at age 71, having left school when she was just 11.
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# junior-certificate - Saturday 20 June, 2015
The venue became overcrowded because a number of people had forged tickets, leaving valid ticket holders stuck outside.
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# junior-certificate - Tuesday 30 December, 2014
Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan thinks it will encourage critical thinking.
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# junior-certificate - Tuesday 2 December, 2014
The Junior Cert does matter, apparently.
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# junior-certificate - Tuesday 25 November, 2014
The strike’s set to go ahead next Tuesday. And neither side is backing down.
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# junior-certificate - Wednesday 12 November, 2014
Teachers are angry about proposed reforms to the Junior Cert.
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# junior-certificate - Wednesday 10 September, 2014
…But saying ‘No’ alone is not good enough. Tell the whole story.
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To say it doesn’t is an insult to the 60,698 Irish students who studied for 3 years to sit the exam last June.
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Parents and those running bars and off licences are being asked to be extra vigilant today.
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There was an increase in the number of students taking up higher level maths and more than 90% of the Junior Cycle cohort takes up science.
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# junior-certificate - Wednesday 4 June, 2014
This year marks the first time that all students at Leaving Cert level will sit the new Project Maths exam.
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# junior-certificate - Thursday 10 April, 2014
Everyonne’s talking about the Omagh bomb, Rehab revelations, and President Higgins…
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# junior-certificate - Friday 14 February, 2014
27,000 ASTI and TUI members are to be balloted on non-co-operation with the new Junior Cycle.
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# junior-certificate - Tuesday 21 January, 2014
The short course will be available in schools from September 2014 and schools can opt in as to whether to adopt it.
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# junior-certificate - Wednesday 18 December, 2013
The union will meet with a Department of Education Working Group next month to discuss the new junior cycle.
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# junior-certificate - Monday 16 December, 2013
The Department of Education has announced that the first meeting of a new working group set up to discuss the planned overhaul of the Junior Certificate is to take place next month.
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# junior-certificate - Tuesday 29 October, 2013
The Teachers Union of Ireland said they are concerned there is not enough resources to implement the planned reforms.
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# junior-certificate - Saturday 14 September, 2013
Plus: How many texts do people in Ireland send on an average day?
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# junior-certificate - Friday 21 June, 2013
The minister says the SEC has two jobs now: to ensure no student suffers as a result of the error, and to stop it recurring.
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# junior-certificate - Wednesday 12 June, 2013
Warning: the following article contains trigonometry.
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# junior-certificate - Tuesday 11 June, 2013
Science minister Sean Sherlock believes the State Examinations Commission will ensure no student loses out over the error.
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# junior-certificate - Monday 10 June, 2013
The English version of a Maths question mistakenly inserted an extra number – which meant two answers are possible.
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# junior-certificate - Wednesday 5 June, 2013
Some 3.1 million exam papers are sitting in boxes across the country right now.
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We really hate it when sport and state exams clash.
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# junior-certificate - Tuesday 4 June, 2013
This week the State exams begin and Leaving and Junior Certificate students are getting ready to tackle Project Maths. John Devlin has some tips for those worried about the new syllabus.
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The National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals given a list of tips to help students perform well during exam time.
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# junior-certificate - Tuesday 7 May, 2013
TV shows like ‘The Tudors’ and ‘Rome’ show that history is more popular than ever – yet, under proposed changes to the Junior Certificate, history could become an optional subject or short course. It makes no sense, writes teacher Christian O’Connor.
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# junior-certificate - Friday 5 October, 2012
Teachers’ unions say they weren’t consulted about the changes, while opposition parties are sceptical of their need.
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# junior-certificate - Thursday 4 October, 2012
Ruairí Quinn is to outline a “major overhaul” of the Junior Cycle today, which is expected to include the abolishing of the State exam.
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Reforms announced by Ruairí Quinn this afternoon replace terminal exams with continual assessment – with the terminal exams scrapped altogether by 2020.
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# junior-certificate - Friday 14 September, 2012
Only the stereotypically male strongholds of Maths and Metalwork see boys have a higher proportion of A grades than girls.
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# junior-certificate - Thursday 13 September, 2012
In the wake of the Junior Certificate results, Deputy Principal Noirin Walsh says that the examination is no longer in tune with the demand of today’s students.
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# junior-certificate - Wednesday 12 September, 2012
There are thousands of nervous households this morning as students get graded on their first State exams.
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# junior-certificate - Saturday 9 June, 2012
CDs for the Leaving Cert Irish exam were inadvertently played at some Junior Cert exam papers yesterday. The Department of Education says an investigation is underway.
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