Schools not told to destroy grading documents for Leaving Cert

Zoe Wilson, Dublin, with her Leaving Cert results. Picture: Jason Clarke

Schools were not instructed to destroy official documents relating to the calculated grades process, the Department of Education has moved to clarify.

More than 60,000 students received their Leaving Cert results on Monday. They are the strongest results on record, and it is the first year since the exams were established that students did not sit the final exams.