Focus will be on maths as students get results

ALMOST 56,000 students will receive their Leaving Certificate results at schools around the country tomorrow.

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.