The new Junior Cycle grading system is to be updated in time for the exams this summer, with more students expected to receive higher grades as a result. The minister for education Helen McEntee ...

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Photo: Stock image Children sitting the Junior Cycle exams this year will have more chance of achieving distinctions and higher merits under a new system introduced by the Department of Education.

A teacher from a school in Co Wicklow that protested outside the Dáil last month over Junior Cycle grading bands, has warned that today’s move to narrow these bands, while welcomed, is not enough.

More students will get higher grades in the Junior Cycle following criticism from pupils and teachers that the existing scoring system was too harsh. The changes will apply to the more than 73,000 ...