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Students across Ireland will be preparing for their Leaving Certificate (Leaving Cert) agricultural science exam which takes place on Monday.
The day has finally arrived for thousands of students across the country as the Leaving Certificate ag science exam takes place today.
7,791 Leaving Cert students are due to sit the written agriculture science exam later this month, the State Examinations Commission has said.
This afternoon (Monday, June 21), Leaving Certificate agricultural science students will sit their written exam, from 2:00p.m to 4:30p.m.
After a year like no other, some 55,000 candidates across the country began Leaving Cert and Leaving Cert Applied written exams this week.
The IASTA has said it was "not consulted" before the revised guidelines for the agricultural science curriculum were published.
According to Eddie Holton, the first question he will be asked next week is: "Sir, when are we going out on the farm?"
CAO has today, Thursday, August 15, issued 74,657 Round One offers to 51,513 Leaving Certificate students who sat the state exams in June.
4.8% of students who took the higher level agricultural science paper in this year's Leaving Certificate secured a H1.
Over 7,700 students in Ireland sat the agricultural science paper during this year's Leaving Certificate in June.
Leaving Cert point requirements for the vast majority of third level ag-science courses have dropped this year, according to the CAO.
There has been an increase of 167 students sitting the higher-level agricultural science exam in this year's Leaving Certificate.
Students who applied to the Central Applications Office this year have until 5:15pm tomorrow, July 1, to alter their application.
Some 7,866 students across the country will sit the Agricultural Science exam as part of their Leaving Certificate this morning.
The number of students who took Leaving Certif Agriculture Science fell by just over 3% this year.
