Junior and Leaving Cert pupils told: Keep calm and carry on

The strong advice from education experts to exam students is to sleep and eat well over the next two weeks.

As close to 120,000 candidates were getting in last-minute study, the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland suggested they keep things in perspective heading into the exams, which start this morning.

Its president Sally Maguire said: “You are sitting exams, and that is all they are; they do not define your value as a person. We are all unique and each person’s best effort on a given day looks different from everyone else’s efforts.”