{"id":3225,"date":"2020-03-27T10:20:55","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T10:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/presentationcollege.ie\/?p=3225"},"modified":"2020-03-27T10:20:55","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T10:20:55","slug":"junior-cycle-mocks-marking-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/presentationcollege.ie\/2020\/03\/27\/junior-cycle-mocks-marking-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Junior Cycle Mocks &#8211; Marking Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Junior Certificate \/ Junior Cycle 2020 and new Grade Descriptors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dear Parents\/Guardians.<\/p>\n<p>For most students and parents, the grading system within the new Junior Cycle has been a big change. We were all so used to the grades A, B, C, D etc \u2013 these have been replaced with <strong>\u2018Grade Descriptors\u2019<\/strong> and we have outlined what this change means below. You will have seen these marks on your daughter\/son&#8217;s Mock results.<\/p>\n<p>Because the introduction of the new <strong>descriptors<\/strong> is happening in steps, the current 3rd Year class who are sitting the Junior Cycle Class in 2020 are following both the old system (A, B, C, D etc) <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and<\/span> the new <strong>descriptor <\/strong>system.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They receive new <strong>&#8216;Grade Descriptors&#8217;<\/strong>\u00a0in English, Irish, French, German, Italian, Art, Business, Science and Wellbeing.<\/li>\n<li>They receive the grades from the <strong>&#8216;old system&#8217;<\/strong> such as A, B, C, D etc in the remaining subjects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><strong>New Junior Cycle and Grade Descriptors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><u>Distinction<\/u> 90 to 100 %<\/p>\n<p><u>Higher Merit<\/u> 75 to 89 %<\/p>\n<p><u>Merit<\/u> 55 to 74 %<\/p>\n<p><u>Achieved<\/u> 40 to 54 %<\/p>\n<p><u>Partially Achieved<\/u> 20 to 39 %<\/p>\n<p><u>(not graded)<\/u> 0 to 19 %<\/p>\n<p><strong>NEW GRADE DESCRIPTORS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3228\" src=\"https:\/\/presentationcollege.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JC-New-Grade-Descriptors.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"482\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/presentationcollege.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JC-New-Grade-Descriptors.jpg 482w, https:\/\/presentationcollege.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JC-New-Grade-Descriptors-181x300.jpg 181w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>OLD MARKING SYSTEM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3229\" src=\"https:\/\/presentationcollege.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JC-Old-Marking-System.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"689\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/presentationcollege.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JC-Old-Marking-System.jpg 689w, https:\/\/presentationcollege.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JC-Old-Marking-System-259x300.jpg 259w, https:\/\/presentationcollege.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/JC-Old-Marking-System-600x696.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 689px) 100vw, 689px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Junior Certificate \/ Junior Cycle&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/presentationcollege.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/presentationcollege.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/presentationcollege.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presentationcollege.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presentationcollege.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/presentationcollege.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presentationcollege.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/presentationcollege.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presentationcollege.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presentationcollege.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}