The English Language Paper 1 is one of two mandatory English papers (totaling 160 external marks), and it is crucial for a student’s overall percentage. The paper specifically tests the ability to ...

The Leaving Cert Diary series, with thanks to our friends at the Irish Second-Level Students' Union, is back for another year. Here, Waterford student Lidiia gives us her take on English Paper 1. And ...

It turns out the biggest scandal amid the first HSC exam of the season was not the content of the paper but the material itself. Here’s what the students had to say. Almost 75,000 Year 12 students ...

More than 140,000 Leaving and Junior Cycle students have turned the page on their English exam this morning at 9.30am, kicking off the 2026 exam season that finishes on Tuesday, June 23rd with applied ...

‘It’s honestly just stressful ... Going into that exam I was like ‘Oh my God, I’m going to die’ My colleague Ella Sloane visited Belmayne Educate Together Secondary School in north Dublin, where the ...