Analysis: What format should the 2021 Leaving Cert take?

Every day, students face stress and uncertainty over what format exams will take. It's time for an answer, writes Matthew Morrin, a Leaving Cert student from Kildare.

Students will have missed five months of in-person teaching by the time they return to the classroom, potentially undermining exam preparation. File Picture.

“Anything the Department of Education and Skills can do moving forward to minimise that level of stress, we would be focused on doing that.” 

These were the words of Norma Foley, Minister for Education, last November.