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old group cert?

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  • 19-04-2006 9:19pm
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    tallaghtdave
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    does anyone on here remember the group cert?
    i think it was a trial before the inter cert its self.


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    Litcagral
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,038 ✭✭✭Litcagral


    tallaghtdave wrote:
    does anyone on here remember the group cert?
    i think it was a trial before the inter cert its self.

    Yes I remember it well but I didn't sit it myself. In our school it was usually for pupils who were deemed to be less academic. We did Latin and Greek and they did woodwork and metalwork. I think it originated for those who were leaving at 14/15 to do an aprenticeship.

    I don't know when it was abolished but it was still going in 1983/1984.


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    Devon
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    I don't believe it was a trial. I distinctly recall the smart kids doing the inter cert and the ehh... "challenged" ones doing the group cert. It was a given that the "challenged" kids weren't going on to do the leaving cert since they wouldn't have had the required level of knowledge, i.e. inter cert level, to hit the ground running.


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