Post Tagged with: "Leaving Certificate"

IT was a hectic Friday morning for the Leaving Cert Class of 2023 as they celebrated their results. While the traditional gatherings at schools to receive the brown envelopes is a thing of the past thanks the availability of results online, there were still a few who turned up at […]

Guidance Counsellor Billy Ryle has welcomed news that the Leaving Certificate results will be released earlier this year… A bit of good news is always welcome before any big event. That’s exactly what public exam candidates received on Wednesday afternoon when the State Examinations Commission (SEC) announced that the Leaving […]

You’ve done the hard work so ‘play a blinder’ in the 2022 State Exams says Guidance Counsellor Billy Ryle who has some last minute advice for candidates… The waiting is almost over for about 120,000 Leaving Cert and Junior Cycle students as the exams get under way on Wednesday, June […]

With a decision on this year’s Leaving Certificate to be made next week, Billy Ryle says the Irish Second Level Students’ Union make a good case to win Leaving Cert exam choice… The views of the Irish Second Level Students’ Union (ISSU) made a significant impact on last week’s meeting […]

MINISTER for Education, Deputy Norma Foley has issued an open letter to students who received their Leaving Certificate results this morning. Under this year’s calculated grades process, around 60,000 students received results with grades higher than any other year on record. On average grades were 4.4% higher than those of last year. […]

As calls are made to postpone the Leaving Cert exams until the autumn, Guidance Counsellor, Billy Ryle says working at home presents new challenges but students have the resources to meet them headlong… In normal times, young people look forward to school holidays so that they can enjoy the freedom […]

IT was that time of the year again. There were many tears of joy and, inevitably, a few of disappointment too, as hundreds of students collected their leaving certificate results on Tuesday morning at Tralee schools. While the results were available online from 10am, many decided to come into their […]

HAPPINESS, nervousness, and for some, a little disappointment were among the emotions evident at schools around the country this morning as thousands of students collected their Leaving Cert results. There were 1,727 Kerry students among them and hundreds were from Tralee schools, so we called around this morning to see what […]

THERE were many happy faces in schools around Tralee on Wednesday morning as the Leaving Certificate results were released. They were some of the 58,500 students who sat the exams nationally, almost 1,900 of whom were Kerry students. Principals from around the schools said they encountered a lot of satisfied students this […]

Tralee students are among the thousands who will receive their Leaving Certificate results on Wednesday. Billy Ryle gives some advice on what follows… The eagerly awaited Leaving Cert exam results will be issued by the State Examinations Commission (SEC) to about 60,000 candidates nationwide this Wednesday. The anticipation is intense […]

Know Your Rights has been compiled by Kerry Citizens Information Service which provides a free and confidential service to the public… Question: Can I have the marking of my Leaving Certificate exam papers rechecked? Answer: Yes, if you are not satisfied with the marks in one or more of your Leaving Certificate […]

Third level applicants have until 5.15pm on Saturday to submit a CAO ‘Change of Mind’ and Billy Ryle has some advice for students as the deadline approaches… The state exams are done and dusted so the thoughts of exhausted candidates are no doubt turning to holidays, summer jobs and travel. But […]

TraleeToday.ie’s Dermot Crean and Fergus Dennehy visited schools around Tralee in the wake students receiving their Leaving Cert results… IT was D-Day today for hundreds of students all around Tralee this morning as they arrived at their schools to collect the Leaving Certificate results. Many were full of excitement, trepidation and […]

WEDNESDAY was D-Day for almost 4,000 students here in Kerry as they nervously sat down to take the first exams of the Junior Certificate and Leaving Certificate. TraleeToday.ie was out and about yesterday afternoon to talk to some of the students as they finished English Paper 1, the traditional opener of the […]