Timetable change a relief as students face exams

THE vast majority of students beginning their Leaving Certificate tomorrow will have at least one morning or afternoon free during the first three days of exams.

Following changes again to this year’s timetable, students will have their two English papers split across Wednesday and Thursday mornings for the second successive year – both writing-intensive exams were previously held on the first day.

Only 13,000 of the 55,383 people sitting this year’s Leaving Certificate will have a second exam tomorrow, when home economics papers are taken. Around 5,000 candidates are entered for Thursday afternoon’s engineering exam, in a slot which was allocated to chemistry last year.