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A TOTAL OF 12,292 students have sought rechecks of their Leaving Cert results following the three-day appeals window this week.
The appeals are in respect of a total of 33,677 grades.
The window to lodge an appeal opened at 9am on Monday and closed at 5pm yesterday afternoon.
Over 60,000 students received Leaving Cert results on 7 September that were based on calculated grades rather than the traditional Leaving Cert Exams.
The process involves using a student’s Junior Certificate grades along with the input of their teachers to predict what they may have received if they sat the traditional exam
This year’s appeals process is very different to the usual system and will be based on re-checking the data transfer of a student’s results from their school through the various stages of the process.
It will not address the difference between the mark awarded by a teacher and the result they ultimately received for the subject.
If a student is still unhappy with their grade after the appeals process, they can opt to sit the exam in November in one or more subjects. They will then have two grades – the calculated grade and their exam grade – but the higher of the two will be the final result in that subject.
Students who have opted to sit the exam in November, with results expected after February 2021, will have access to the traditional appeals process when they receive their results.
- With reporting by Sean Murray
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They made a right balls up of the leaving cert. With the schools being empty and this Government throwing money at everything, extra supervisors could have been employed.
@Dave Barrett: The leaving cert should have gone ahead. There was loads of free space available to insure distancing. it just would have taken a little bit of creative thinking and organisation!
@Dave Barrett: Yup, parents pushed for these predicted grades, trust teachers they said. Well look at the absolute shambles this has caused, an education lottery basically.
@Dave Barrett: useless Dept Secretary and Chief Inspector
Why dont they go and sit the exams if they are so sure of what grades they “should” of got
@Fi Harte: that’s the option they don’t like
@Fi Harte: and where can they get these exams of yours?
@Ciaran Tuomey: not so, a lot of revision needed now without feed back from teachers to sit again.
@Fi Harte: by the time that they sit these exams, they’ll have been out of school for eight months. They won’t do as well as they would have done had they sat them in June. Also, most of them wanted to go to college this year. I know it’s nothing in the grand scheme of things but a year at that age feels like an eternity.
How dare the department downgrade students. Even in normal years they apply this ‘Bell curve’ and students whom we know for a fact received their grade get down graded. They are supposed to be checking the people marking the papers.. How dare they play with kids lives.
@Patricia O’Reilly: come next election you know what to do.
@Dave Barrett: Exactly, don’t vote for PBP, SF etc. These were the ones that were shouting before hand that they did not want the regularly under preforming schools downgraded so what happened – the regularly over preforming schools got downgraded.
@Patricia O’Reilly: who monitors teachers’ fantasy marks? Because that’s exactly what they were this year
Worst thing they done was give them their teacher grades. It’s like every exam student being given their examiners scripts.
Your one who brought the first case yesterday would want to check herself. Just because you go to a few paying school should have no determination of your grades. If you bet in a casino and lose you don’t get your money back
@McGregors mastercard: why should she check herself? Her parents worked hard to send her to that school. Not all people who go to fee paying schools are privileged. She went there because she wanted to study medicine and some pen pusher has just ruined that for her. I hope more of them go to court. Also if you are going to slag someone off maybe check your spelling first
@Rachel Walsh Howe:
In your two-tier world, it’s ok to buy priority for an education? Bumping a fee-paying student takes away the opportunity for someone else.
The son of my friend studied hard in a regular school and barely got his place in medicine. Fee-paying students receiving extra points would replace other hard working students who have an equal right to be there. Their family income may not be the same but their dreams and ambitions are.
@Rachel Walsh Howe: Perhaps you could also learn to start your sentence with a capital letter.
They have the option to sit it in November!! Like always, there are complainers and doers. Rather than complain about it, how about they sit it and prove the system wrong?
No surprise
One in five students IS appealing, comrade. Five are appealing: OK. One are appealing not OK.
Sorry about this, but if we have to speak and write in this language let’s get it right. We have always done it better than the English themselves. Tóg go bog é!
This is laughable. Release the results at the last minute – Provide an appeals process, which will bring both students who fell on the wrong side of the median and of course the privileged who believe they should get extra points because they paid for better results.
Would be interesting to know how long it takes to review each appeal. Let’s say 2 hours. This means there will be around 67k hours. Even if they have 1,000 assessors (which let’s face it there isn’t). This will need around 67 hours of work per inspector. More likely number is probably closer to 100 meaning this will take months to resolve.
One in five students IS appealing, comrade. Five are appealing: OK. One are appealing not OK.
Sorry about this, but if we have to speak and write in this language let’s get it right. We have always done it better than the English themselves. Tóg go bog é!
A total $h!t show
One in five students IS appealing, comrade. Five are appealing: OK. One are appealing not OK.
Sorry about this, but if we have to speak and write in this language let’s get it right. We have always done it better than the English themselves. Tóg go bog é!
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