Minister confirms students to sit traditional Leaving Cert exams 

Minister confirms students to sit traditional Leaving Cert exams 

Minister Foley said that the exams will be "structured in a familiar way, but with more choice and a reduction in the number of questions to be answered." Picture: Sasko Lazarov / RollingNews.ie

The Leaving Cert exams will go ahead in the traditional format in June 2022, the Government has confirmed today.

Education Minister Norma Foley said although the exams will revert back to the traditional style, they would be "radically different" from students' experiences in previous years 2019/2018 because there will now be a "considerable" choice on the paper and less content prepared to be studied.

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