Junior Cycle exam results release date due this week
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- 17 Oct 2022
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The State Examinations Commission is expected to confirm early this week a date for the release of Junior Cycle results for tens of thousands of secondary school students.
While marking is completed in almost all Junior Cycle subjects, it has been continuing in a “small number of subjects”, according to officials.
A shortage of examiners, along with a second set of deferred exams in July and the prioritisation of the Leaving Cert exams and appeals this year, are among the factors that have led to a delay in issuing Junior Cycle results.
A final date for the release of results to schools is expected to be announced on Monday or Tuesday of this week.
On foot of the delay, Minister for Education Norma Foley pledged to establish a “root and branch” review into the marking of State exams which will focus on how to boost examiner numbers and provide greater certainty over the future release of results.
Meanwhile, the Association of Secondary Teachers’ Ireland (ASTI) has expressed its opposition to plans for teachers to assess their own students under new Leaving Cert reform plans. Read More...
