The Leaving Cert -

The first exam of the leaving cert 2010 is approaching and approaching fast! There’s only 3 weeks to go from Wednesday. Be honest, are you ready? How many of you actually feel 100% confident about passing with no probs.

Thanks to that one supervisor who handed out the wrong papers to students last year, (costing almost €2m and forcing 60,000 students to reschedule their plans) we now have a whole new set of exam procedures brought in specifically because of this supervisor. source; evening herald…

The Leaving Cert Song – as heard on RTE 2FM by Jim Jim and Orla La. The Black Eyed Peas would be proud…

Looking around twitter, it seems that something is beginning to hit the fan Thankfully, we don’t take things to heart, but just imagine if your name was ‘leaving cert’ and this is what was being said about you…

According to figures release by RTE, approximately 4% of you aren’t sitting the Irish exam this summer because of a disability… this article in The Irish Times suggests there are some of you that are cheating the system and getting out of Irish on the grounds that you have a learning disability…

A few months ago Enda blogged about bullying here. We tend to just ignore the issue of bullying or write it off just because it doesn’t happen to us or to our friends. In some cases though, you only hear about it when it’s too late…

We’re assuming by this stage most people have finished their mocks! We’re calling them mock exams as in one of our recent polls: ‘Pre’ or ‘Mock’ Exams – What should they be called? you all voted for them to be called mocks by 2 votes to 1.

That’s right. Fact. A recent report shows that not being able to speak our native language means you’re twice as likely to be unemployed as someone who can speak irish.

Cheating is only cheating if you get caught. It does go on and it will continue to go on. Some get caught, some don’t but no doubt this case will make some people think twice…

Lately there has been a lot of talk about introducing bonus points for good marks in maths and science subjects. Is it fair? Is it unfair? Is it blackmail? Have your say by voting below and leaving us comments.