Exam day dawns for students

Extra precautions have been taken in the preparation of Junior and Leaving Certificate exams after controversy over a range of errors in many of last year?s papers.

As almost 120,000 students begin the exams across the country this morning, the State Examinations Commission has detailed some of the measures adopted, including the recruitment of contract staff to help prepare the extra papers required for the phasing in of the revised Project Maths curriculum.

Last year, errors and lack of clarity were detected on a number of papers leading to criticisms about the quality assurance procedures used by the SEC.