Leaving Cert students have less than a week to register online to opt-in to receive their calculated grades. Just over half of Leaving Cert students and more than a quarter of Leaving Cert Applied students have opted-in since the student portal (gov.ie/LeavingCertificate) opened. Meanwhile the State Examinations Commission is planning to run the postponed Leaving Cert written exams in November. EstimatesThis is the first time in the near 100-year history of the Leaving Cert that the exams have been postponed and replaced with calculated - or predicted - grades for students. “Creating an entirely new system of calculated grades has been a huge and challenging task.

Source: The Irish Times July 21, 2020 15:00 UTC