Candidates will be scattered across 574 schools or centresThe most unusual Leaving Cert exams ever get under way today, with special arrangements in place for any candidate who is a close contact of a confirmed Covid-19 case. A total of 2,569 students from the Leaving Cert class of 2020 have entered to sit the postponed written papers, with the first exam, Biology, at 5.30pm. Sixty adult learners and early school-leavers are sitting postponed Junior Cert exams. There will be no second sitting of this deferred Leaving Cert, such as was introduced for students who had a bereavement during the June exams. About 200 November candidates are out of school learners who did not receive calculated grades.

Source: The Herald November 16, 2020 02:45 UTC