A total of 2,820 students have applied to sit the postponed 2020 Leaving Cert exams which are due to be held next month. All students who had been due to sit the summer exams were given the option of receiving calculated grades and sitting Leaving Cert written exams at a later date when it was considered safe to do so. Students who have received calculated grades and opt to sit the written exams will be credited with the higher of the two grades. These 424 students 7represent about 7 per cent of the 6,100 Leaving Cert students whose results were upgraded on foot of coding errors discovered in the past fortnight. The Leaving Cert exams, meanwhile, will take the form of written papers only.

Source: The Irish Times October 07, 2020 18:19 UTC