Junior Cycle students are experiencing "significant stress" caused by school workloads and many are struggling to balance homework, Classroom Based Assessments (CBA) and study for tests and exams ...

CBA work was seen as an “extra”, which ... “Students believed that in order to be successful at Junior Cycle they must: engage in early and sustained academic engagement, engage in diligent ...

Junior Cycle English has two Classroom-Based Assessments (CBA) with an associated Assessment Task and a Final Assessment, one of which is the Oral Communication Task (an individual or group ...

Similar to the CBA in oral communication ... This will be included in the new Junior Cycle Profile of Achievement (JCPA) to be awarded next year, replacing the traditional Junior Certificate.

In third year students have to complete an “assessment task” linked to their CBA which is worth 10 per cent of their final Junior Cycle subject mark. As each subject is allocated a specific ...

Junior cycle students rise to the new challenge of communicating and presenting in front of their peers Conor Eiffe delivering a three-minute presentation on music sampling in one of the first of ...

Minister for Education, Helen McEntee has announced major changes to the Junior Cycle. Speaking on Tuesday, the minister announced that new grade bands will be implemented for incoming students.