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    Leaving Cert English Fiasco – There Was Another Way!

    Big Problem! In assessment terms, the majority of our state exams may be characterised by unseen (in advance) questions and time limited tests.The shock news of today is the fact that through some unfortunate human error the questions for Leaving Cert English paper 2 were inadvertently distributed to a small group of students intending to sit paper 1.“The integrity of the exam had been compromised by the regrettable incident” said the Minister for Education Batt O’Keefe.The State Exams Commission considered they had no option but to cancel today’s paper 2 exam and ordered that a new paper 2 should be taken by students this Saturday.This is no small inconvenience it…