The Junior and Leaving Cert examinations are well underway with more than 116-thousand students expected to sit the state exams.
Students for both cycles have completed their first exam, English Paper 1.
Leaving certificate students are now in the middle of their Home Economics paper, with the Junior cycle half way through their second English paper.
These students were largely confident ahead of the exam:
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Most Leaving Cert students seemed happy with their first English paper:
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LCA students completed English & Communication this morning, and are now sitting Social Education.
90 subjects in both cycles will be examined in 15 different languages including Czech, Latvian and Polish.
This year has seen a 24 per cent jump in the number of students taking honours maths after 25 bonus points were introduced for the subject last year.
