[Niamh.]

Our equivalent to GCSEs over here is the Junior Cert and they've started to change that, my sons year will be the first to start seeing the changes in it, it's going on assessments over the whole of the junior cycle which is 3 years long. It makes so much more sense then to have the whole thing based on one exam in each subject at the end of the three years, it's too mush stress and pressure