Leaving Cert timetable up for ‘serious consideration’

LEAVING Certificate students may be spared some stress in future after the Education Minister yesterday said she would seriously consider changes to exam timetables.

Mary Hanafin met 100 of this year’s Leaving Certificate students who spent two hours detailing grievances about exams.

Pupils from the classes of 2007 aired concerns over heavy handwriting for papers, the timing of language oral exams and the order of subjects tested, among others.