Further updated FAQs on Leaving Certificate 2021

By piofficer, Tuesday, 9th March 2021 | 0 comments

Click here for updated TUI advice (9th March) on the Leaving Certificate Examinations

New updates are highlighted in Orange shading.

Main updates are:

1, Music Practical Examinations

  • Adjustments to the performing requirements
  • Measures to ensure the safe conduct of the practical examinations

2. Teachers may, if they choose to do so, set no more than 3 additional assessments to feed into the SEC Accredited Grades process.  Given that members have expressed concern over the awarding of specific marks to students for those assessment, the Union has updated its advice.  ‘The Union would recommend that you not give a percentage mark or a grade for such assessments and that, instead, you give a descriptor or provide formative feedback to students.’

Junior Cycle 2021

The TUI remains in discussions with the Department and other stakeholders in relation to the assessment and reporting arrangements for Junior Cycle 2021. 

Pending the issuing of such arrangements and TUI’s associated advice, teachers should not plan any alternative assessments or reporting arrangement for Junior Cycle 2021 Students.

Leaving Certificate Candidate Self Service Portal 2021 

Click here for the Leaving Certificate Candidate Self Service Portal 2021 Guide that issued today (9 March).

This Guide is a step-by-step guide for students on how to

  • create an account
  • select subject levels
  • add a subject
  • opt to receive an Accredited Grade
  • opt to sit the written examinations

The Guide confirms that:

  • if a student opts not to sit the written paper and subsequently changes her/his mind at the end April/beginning of May when the Portal re-opens, s/he will have missed the opportunity to sit the Oral Examinations and/or have their coursework corrected by the SEC and will therefore not be able to achieve full marks.
     
  • if a student completes the additional assessment component and does not go on to take the written examinations, the work may not be marked by the SEC and even if it is marked by the SEC it will not feed into the Accredited Grades process.
     
  • even if a student opts not to sit the written examinations s/he is required to engage with their teachers and ‘participate in the learning of the curriculum in that subject as determined by your class teacher’.
     
  • the subject level selected by students at the end of April/beginning of May will be the final decision on subject levels for the Accredited Grades process.
     
  • students must select one level on the portal for the Accredited Grade and the Written Examination for each subject i.e. a student cannot opt for higher level as an Accredited Grade and Ordinary Level for the Written Examination.
     
  • A student can change the subject level for the Written Examination on the day of the exam.

Leaving Cert Applied Year 1 candidates (5th years) are not included on the portal as this is not the final year of the programme and their information will be gathered directly from their school.

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