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The Explainer: Leaving Cert results are out on Monday - here's how it'll work

We take a look at how the calculated grades system will work.

THE LEAVING CERTIFICATE exams are a tense and stressful time for students.

Years of primary and secondary school work boiled down to a handful of papers, completed in a stuffy exam hall over the course of a few hours.

But as you’ve likely realised by now, 2020 isn’t like other years, and so the Leaving Cert looks a lot different. Exams were cancelled and students next week will instead received a calculated grade based on their previous work in school.

But how will this system work? Sinéad O’Carroll is joined this week by TheJournal.ie reporter Gráinne Ní Aodha who has drilled down into the detail of how students will be awarded grades in their chosen subjects.

We also look at what students can do if they’re unhappy with their points, and how Ireland aims to avoid the angry scenes witnessed in the United Kingdom by pupils whose results were downgraded by an algorithm.

https://soundcloud.com/the-explainer-podcast/leaving-cert-results-are-out-on-monday-heres-how-itll-work/s-6N5sR9PrmRq

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This episode was put together by presenter and producer Aoife Barry, assistant producer and technical operator Nicky Ryan, and executive producer Christine Bohan. Guest was reporter Gráinne Ní Aodha. Design by Palash Somani.

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    Sep 3rd 2020, 7:57 AM

    How on earth can a student who is appealing a grade sit a leaving cert exam in November? They haven’t been in school since March. They may or may not have had online teaching support in subsequent months and they will have missed their opportunity to go to college because the results are being given too close to the CAO offers, the appeals date and the start of the college year. A deliberate ploy on the part of the Department of Education to try to discourage students from appealing. The whole thing is an absolute shambles!! Good luck to the leaving cert students of 2020..I hope every single one of them that wants to go to college, gets a place in the course of their choice.

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    Sep 3rd 2020, 12:51 PM

    @DeeM: they could self study, their education didn’t stop just because of the pandemic

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    Sep 3rd 2020, 9:47 PM

    @Bikes rule the world: no, it did. It stopped. That’s actually exactly what happened.

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    Sep 5th 2020, 12:50 AM

    @Bikes rule the world:
    self study yes. but we had to return our books back in may. so we don’t even have those as resources + no teacher contact.

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    Sep 3rd 2020, 9:03 AM

    I think the reason they moved the result date was that there was no time before the start of Uni to question the results

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    Sep 3rd 2020, 9:23 AM

    @Alan Wilson: If you question your results and are awarded a higher grade you will get the place you are entitled to in college, as far as I know. I just don’t know what the perfect solution to this year’s LC would have been. All the partners in education were involved in the decision to do it this way and still people are up in arms. What would the hurlers on the ditch have done better, I wonder? There was no manual for handling something as unprecedented as this pandemic.

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    Sep 3rd 2020, 9:10 AM

    Here’s how it will work…..anyone who doesn’t get their No 1 choice will moan about the unfairness of it all. Simples.

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    Sep 3rd 2020, 1:03 PM

    @Canyon: That’s not the a problem with the LC, that’s a problem with the CAO.

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    Sep 3rd 2020, 1:51 PM

    Barristers and solicitors are already clearing their calendars for late September and early October. I expect there are going to be an enormous number of cases. Previously results were based on single exams that everyone sat – the human element for grading was to a large extent objective. Now it’s to a large extent subjective.

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