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THE NUMBER OF students doing Higher Level Maths and getting a high grade has stayed broadly steady, two years since the introduction of a scheme to encourage more Leaving Certificate students to do the course.
Just over 14,000 students sat Higher Level Maths this year, up from 11,000 in 2012 when the 25 bonus points for the CAO were first introduced, according to figures released today from the State Examination Commission.
Ten per cent of these students (10.2%) got an A grade, which is a drop of one percentage point on last year. However the percentage of students who got either an A, B or C is almost exactly the same as last year at 72.6%. Just over 4% of students who sat the paper failed, a slight increase on last year.
The subject in which students received the highest proportion of As was Russian, where a massive 82.5% of students got an A grade, reflecting that fact that many native speakers took it as an non-curriculum subject.
Applied Maths had the highest percentage of As of any curricular subject, with 28.2% of Higher Level and a massive 41.6% of Ordinary Level Students getting As.
The highest failure rate was in Physics and Chemistry for the second year in a row. Exactly one third of students (33.3%) who sat the Ordinary Level paper failed the subject.
Classical Studies had the next-highest failure rate with just over one-fifth (21.6%) of everyone who sat the Ordinary Level exam failing.
Compulsory subjects
The percentage of students getting As in English has fallen to 9.3% of Higher Level students, down from 10.5% two years ago. Meanwhile 7.4% of students at Ordinary Level got an A, down from 8.30% in 2012.
The percentage of students getting the highest grades in Irish has also fallen. Just over 14% of students (14.2%) got either an A1 or an A2 at Higher Level – a drop from 17.5% two years ago. Similarly, the percentage who got an A at Ordinary Level has fallen from 2.9% to 2.3%.
However, the overall number of students getting either an A, B or C in Irish has stabilised at both levels, at 88.8% for higher level and 74.9% for lower level.
Just over 76% of students got either an A, B or C in English (at both Ordinary and Higher Level), while the results were different for Maths: 72% of students got an A, B or C at Higher Level, but this figure dropped to 66% at Ordinary Level.
Here’s a round-up of how people got on with the three compulsory Leaving Certificate subjects.
ENGLISH:
MATHS:
IRISH
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Reading all the wishes of ill-health of death by the bitter little people who read The Journal reminds me why I could never be a Leftist like them. Their hearts are dark with no room for charity or kindness.
@Brian Lenehan: you’re a tonic… Do you always come up with these one liner, ops two sentence, comical jestures so fast?
@Brian Lenehan: on a serious note, with all the ill health and pain he has forced on his own people and on the people of this earth, I think a twisted gut is the minimum this guy should be inflicted with. Let’s hope the cure is worse than the disease on this occasion. karma can be beautiful but can also have a weird sense of humour.
@Brian Lenehan: Those comments are humourous in intent. Considering his dangerous impact on the environment, ‘truth’, democracy, the rule of law and accountability, etc. it is difficult to empathise with him. You would have done better service to your argument if you hadn’t resorted to giving away your own agenda and limited perspective.
@David A. Murray: its about time the left started to express themselves directly in no uncertain terms just as the right do. this character shows f all respect for humanity. so, f all respect should be shown to him.
@Brian Lenehan: take up a new hobby this year- staying conversant with current affairs
@Brian Lenehan: this man has openly killed 1000s of people with his words and lack of action. He has openly threatened to imprison those he deems a threat to his rule. He’s a little strongman who rules with a fist. So anyone that disagrees with you is automatically a leftist? He has recently said those asking for his impeachment will be punished by his followers by executions. He has clamped down on the free press, freedom of speech, censorship, jailed those who disagree with him etc. And apparently he said something about a girl before he got elected saying that she was to ugly to get raped? He despises Democracy. he is a autocratic President playing the putin card. People like him don’t last long. So yeah I can understand peoples feelings.
@Brian Lenehan: you don’t have to be a specific side of the political spectrum to know that Bolsonaro and many others like him are devoid of any redeeming characteristics. People from the left and right used to think like this before the mid 2010′s when large swathes of each felt they had to blindly support the politicians they felt an affinity with as blindly as they would support their soccer team, regardless of their words, actions, or the consequences of both.
@Brian Lenehan: The absolute state of that comment
@alan scott: I am a fierce critic of Bolsonaro. He is a disgrace. But half of the things you mentioned are not true or complete exaggeration.
@CaicoNaFita: nothing about Bolsonaro is exaggerated.. He’s a scut and more.
@CaicoNaFita: il try and find the links and post them.
@Brian Lenehan: why are you guys always able to dish it out but not take it? Hahahaha
@Brian Lenehan:
Der Fürher loved dogs and was vegetarian. He was still however a b0//0x (1st Class with Oak Leaves). Whaddya gonna do…?
He’s been full of it and hot air for years…… I’m surprised its taken this long
@Aidan Leonard: its not so much hot air he is full of at the moment….
Fingers crossed.
A tool passing a stool
That will be the bile and hatred, i expect.
Wouldn’t be terrible if he caught covid whilst in hospital.
@Gerry Gleeson: if you are after a fresh bout of Covid, there is no better place to pick it up than a hospital
Classic case of head up ones own but..
Did somebody shove his policies up his hole?
I think his blocked.
@Ciarán O’Fearghail: Brain is blocked
@Ciarán O’Fearghail: you’re some rick with a large P.
He really is that full of absolute…..
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