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ALMOST 117,000 STUDENTS are due to start their Leaving and Junior Certificate on Wednesday and the State Examinations Commission (SEC) has urged candidates to arrive on time.
The first day of the exams coincides with the Olympic Torch relay event coming to Dublin. The SEC says its primary concern is to ensure that all those taking the exams in Dublin on Wednesday, 6 June are aware of the delays that could be incurred on the morning as a result.
The areas most likely to be affected are North Dublin, Howth and the City Centre.
In a statement, the SEC said the key message is to plan the journey to arrive “well before the appointed time of 8.30am”. The exams begin at 9.30am but those taking English Paper One are expected to be at their centres before 9am.
The Olympic Council and the Gardaí have factored the State exams into their planning and will be working to ensure that any potential disruptions, including sound levels, are kept to a minimum.
From today, more than 4,800 superintendents will take possession of the boxes containing three million exam papers that will be taken over a 13–day period.
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The weather is going to pick up now the exams start
Good luck to them all over the next two/three weeks
if they are depending on luck they are not ready to sit exams.
Best of luck to my son and all his mates starting the Leaving Cert on Wednesday. Stay cool, keep calm, you can only do your best! Make sure to have some kind of breakfast before leaving and have the bottle of water in the fridge on Tuesday night! Time just goes to fast these days. :(
the leaving cert….. I still have the occasional nightmare about it all…. like forgetting to study, or sleeping in the morning of an exam. the relief when i wake up. after all these years it still comes back to haunt me ,even though I did ok and got the points I needed.
I get recurring nightmares about the leaving too and it’s many many years since I did it! Same theme as yours only mine revolve around my maths exam! Awful! Best of luck to all young people facing exams this week.
Finnian good luck with your exams I remember how stressful they were just try calm before you go in. I think for people to make stupid comments about teenage stress being discussed on the radio is highly idiotic. I will make no assumptions about the author of the post but I will say it is getting harder to get into college now with the increase of those coming back to education so clearly teenagers are going to be feeling the pressure to do well and the rest of us should support them for the few weeks it will be on the radio.
Good luck to all sitting their exams
that time of year again when radio stations keep pumping out the same old rubbish over and over again about exam pressure and how to prepare for exams etc. as if this was the only country in the world in which students sit exams and as if exams were the single biggest pressure a person could be put under. Change the tune.
@Aisling. From what I hear it is a terrible experience. Your leaving cert tests are obviously a flawed educational practice. No learning content and turns people against further learning. Another thing….why is the notice on the door in english and irish….oh, that’s right, the students wouldn’t understand it after a dozen years of taking gaelic. Hilarious….
Aisling shut up. I am a LC student and you’ve obviously no idea how much dam pressure i’m under. I have been working hard since Novrmber and I just don’t feel ready. Please take your sheer ignorance elsewhere.
Aisling, that is such an insensitive comment. I’m sitting English Paper One in two hours, having spent the last two years preparing, and I still don’t feel in any way ready.
Most obvious message ever!
Prayed to st Antony st Francis in st Augustine church GIT thru out my exams – both saints were so fed up in the end they decided to pass me and keep me smiling 32 years ago oh my how time flies
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