Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 15 October 2020
184. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education the number of the 6,100 students awarded improved leaving certificate grades as a result of the review of the calculated grades system that received improved grades in one, two, three, four, five, six and seven subjects; the gender breakdown of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30738/20]
View answerOn 03 October I announced that improved Calculated Grades would issue that day to students who received lower Calculated Grades than they should have, as a result of errors that were found in the Calculated Grades process.
As a result of rectification of these errors, a total of 6,100 students received higher calculated grades. This breaks down as follows:
- 5,408 students received a higher grade, by one grade band, in one subject,
- 621 students received a higher grade, by one grade band, in two subjects,
- 71 students received a higher grade, by one grade band, in three or more subjects.
Following the issue of the outcomes of the appeals of Calculated Grades, my Department will be arranging to update the national statistics for the 2020 Leaving Certificate (Calculated Grades) results issued on the 7 September with the revisions to these grades which resulted from the coding error which led to revised grades being issued to some students on the 3 October and with the outcomes of the appeals process. When the revised data set is published, a full gender breakdown of the national data will be provided at that time.
