Exam is a very expensive grind

THE irony of our “free education” system is that 60% or more parents of Leaving Cert students fork out between €2,000 and €3,000 on grinds.

Exam is a very expensive grind

It would be fair to say a student going into a Leaving Cert exam without the benefit of grinds would be like a person jumping out of a plane without a parachute or swimming naked in a pool of piranha fish. Crazy.

A student with average intelligence would not have a hope in hell of getting enough points to do medicine without the benefit of grinds under the present system.

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