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Junior Cycle Examinations 2023
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On 2 September 2022, Minister for Education Norma Foley announced that adjustments will be made to the assessment arrangements for students due to sit State examinations in 2023, to take account of the disruption to their learning during the COVID-19 pandemic: read the full press release here .
A document detailing the adjusted assessment arrangements for the Leaving Certificate Established, Leaving Certificate Applied, Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme and Junior Cycle programmes has issued to schools and can also be found here , schools will be asked to ensure that all students are made aware of these changes.
The level of adjustment will be the same as that announced in August 2021 but updated as relevant. These adjustments will play to student strengths by leaving intact the familiar overall structure of the examinations, while incorporating additional choice for students in the examinations. In some cases, the adjustment measures will provide more time for tuition by, for example, reducing preparatory work for practical examinations.
They provide clarity, certainty and reassurance to students, their parents/guardians, teachers and schools at the start of the 2022/2023 school year.
These adjustments were arrived at through discussions between the Department of Education, the State Examinations Commission and the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, and key stakeholders.
The changes will be made with due regard for the principles of equity, fairness and integrity, in relation to student-to-student, subject-to-subject, and year-to-year comparisons.
In September 2022, the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) published the revised arrangements for Classroom-Based Assessments for students entering third year and second year in 2022, and these are available here .
More details regarding the Junior Cycle 2023 examinations will be published here as they become available.
Information on the Junior Cycle examinations, including regular updates throughout the examinations period, is available from the website of the State Examinations Commission www.examinations.ie . The phone number for all enquiries is 090 6442700.
Throughout the written examinations period (7th to 27th June 2023), staff members are on hand to deal with queries from 8.30am to 9.00pm on examination days and from 9.30am to 1.00pm at weekends. Outside of these hours contact may be made through the main number 090 6442700 and a brief message can be left with the security staff.