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America's 13-year-olds have made no measurable progress in maths or reading since 2023, with current scores remaining ...

The class of 2026 sat Maths Paper 2 and Irish Paper 1 today. Two students share their thoughts with the Leaving Cert Diary.

An archive of Leaving Cert maths' papers tells a fascinating story of how the exam has changed over the last 100 years ...

The short answer is no. There is no pass or fail system in the Leaving Cert. If you fail maths, you will receive zero CAO ...

Michelle Tregoning remembers the first time she felt nervous about maths like it was yesterday. In Year 6, she was asked to answer a simple maths question in front of the class: what's 5 x 6? Ms ...

A seemingly simple set of rules kicks off a kind of mathematical magic trick, which has kept great minds busy since the 1930s ...

Niall Duddy, ASTI subject representative and a teacher at Presentation College, Athreny, said on Monday that it was a tale of ...

A new maths GCSE should be introduced for those students in England stuck in a cycle of resitting maths to achieve a grade 4 or above, a charity says. The proposed new curriculum should focus on "the ...

Pupils told the BBC that the wording of the questions was confusing so they did not know what was being asked.

'Not that they were delighted, but they certainly found it much more accessible than paper 1 on Friday' ...

VCE maths students will be banned from using calculator functions allowing them to “cheat” during exams - but the mandate ...