More than 100,000 students start State exams
More than 100,000 students in schools around the country will today sit-down to the Junior and Leaving Certificate exams.
This year sees religious education becoming an exam subject for the first time.
For all students, English is the first exam subject on the timetable when exams start at around 9.30am.
They will be taking their seats at 4,500 exam centres around the country to where two million individual papers have been sent in 89 different subjects.
For the first time all the aural exams have been delivered on CD and another first is the inaugural exam in religious education, which will be taken by 100 Leaving Cert students.
It’s also the last ever exam for economic history.
