Tweaks to State exams next year as a Covid-19 contingency

The 2021 State exams will be adjusted to take the pandemic and its possible impacts into account.

The State examinations are to be adjusted for 2021 to account for the difficulties faced by students who lost months of time in their classrooms due to the ongoing global pandemic.

Leaving Cert and Junior Cert exams next summer will be adjusted to give students a greater choice of questions in certain subjects. This includes changes to exam papers in subjects like English, Irish, Maths, Biology, Chemistry, French and Spanish.