A High Court judge has said a “lead” case on Leaving Cert grades will be heard next month – but only if lawyers agree which of three separate cases brought over standardisation will be that lead case. One of the cases is by Freddy Sherry, a Leaving Cert student at Dublin’s Belvedere College. Feichin McDonagh SC, with Micheál P O’Higgins SC and Brendan Hennessy BL, for the applicants, said the cases were not a systemic attack on the calculated grades. He had studied consistently for his Leaving Cert until May 8 when the cancellation of the exam and its replacement with a calculated grades system was announced. It is “impossible to reconcile” that background with the Calculated Grades actually received by students of St Kilian’s, its principal Alice Lynch said in an affidavit.

Source: Irish Independent September 23, 2020 15:11 UTC