The English candidates for the new Junior Cycle examination in June 2017 may have only seen sample papers the previous autumn, but their successors in 2018 had a full year’s extra notice.

A professional association representing post-primary teachers of Irish has called for an "urgent review" of new Junior Cycle sample papers issued last week by the State Examinations Commission ...

It was all change for Junior Cycle Irish this year, with separate papers for students in Irish-medium schools and those in English-medium schools following major syllabus reform. Each syllabus can ...

The new-style Junior Cycle history paper has sparked outrage because students sitting the exams had no idea what marks were being allocated for each question.