Exam chiefs rule out repeat of mistakes

ORGANISERS of the Junior and Leaving certificate exams being taken by more than 116,000 students from this morning are confident there will be no repeat of last year’s controversial rescheduling of a paper handed out by mistake.

With a range of measures introduced to reduce the risk of the wrong exam being given out by any of the 4,700 people supervising exam centres, State Examinations Commission (SEC) chairman Richard Langford said the intention is to reduce the likelihood of any repeat.

“The examinations are a matter of public interest, and the events surrounding the re-scheduling of Leaving Certificate English Paper 2 last year show how any disruption to the examination schedule can impact on all those involved,” he said.