Assessment Requirements · Gaeilge
Official assessment structure
- Assessment component: Language portfolio — students choose three portfolio items as evidence of learning, including one sound/video piece; completed towards the end of second year
- Additional component: Interacting through Irish — students prepare and present a spoken piece and participate in a conversation about it; completed in the middle of the second term of third year
- Assessment Task: required
- Assessment Task weighting: 10%
- Final examination: State Examinations Commission final examination at Ordinary and Higher levels. Students demonstrate linguistic ability in listening, reading, communicative composition and personal/communicative responses to literary texts. Receptive/productive weighting: Higher 35%/55%; Ordinary 55%/35%. · 2 hours
Official source: Official curriculum source