Leaving Cert 2025 marks the slow return to grade normality

While normality has resumed in almost every other aspect of life post covid, it is taking a little longer when it comes to tackling grade inflation
Leaving Cert 2025 marks the slow return to grade normality

College entry here remains still so tightly bound to the Leaving Cert, and sudden moves to dramatically “deflate” grades would be a disadvantage to students when compared to those presenting results from 2020 to 2024. File picture: Domnick Walsh

It's a conundrum that wouldn’t seem out of place on a higher level paper.

“Exam authorities artificially increased more than half of all Leaving Cert grades in 2025 in a bid to bring them down. Explain, in your own words, how and why?”

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