'Urgent' appeal for Leaving Cert and Junior Cert students with dyslexia to get extra exam time

Dyslexia Association of Ireland CEO Rosie Bissett says there has never been a clear rationale why extra time is not given for State exams, 'even though it is being done in so many other jurisdictions and at university level'. Picture: Nick Bradshaw

The allocation of extra time for students with dyslexia doing State exams must be urgently tackled, according to the CEO of the Dyslexia Association of Ireland. Rosie Bissett was commenting in advance of the start of the Junior cert and Leaving cert exams which get underway on Wednesday. Ms Bissett said: 

A student doing their Leaving Certificate doesn’t get extra time but an engineer or a primary teacher or a doctor or a nurse doing their final exams in university is getting extra time.