Keep exams in perspective, students told ahead of Junior and Leaving Cert papers

The importance of keeping exams in perspective has been emphasised as 120,000 students prepare to begin Junior and Leaving Certificate papers today.

For more than 56,500 people, it marks the beginning of the Leaving Certificate which starts this morning with the first of two papers in English.

The same subject is the opening exam for most of the 60,652 entered for the Junior Certificate. English & Communication is timetabled for this morning’s Leaving Certificate Applied which has 2,811 students this year.