Focus will be on maths as students get results
The focus this year is likely to centre, once again, on the uptake of higher level maths and an analysis of whether numbers failing ordinary level maths have steadied or not.
Last year, a record low of less than one-in-six maths students took the higher level paper, and there was a slight fall in the numbers who got an E or lower grade in the ordinary level exam. The first students to sit the Leaving Certificate under a new programme for learning maths will get their results tomorrow.
