Ms Andrea Feeney:

We have not yet announced the timelines for assessment this year. The date for the results has been the end of August or early September in the past two years because of the challenges we have faced in that time. The date for the results this year will be impacted by two things. An announcement has been made to the effect that the overall profile of results will be no lower than the profile of results in 2021. That requires time for analysis so after all the marking is done, we need to do the analytics required to make sure of that. A second announcement related to deferred sittings of the examinations for students who are bereaved, seriously ill or suffering from Covid-19 and unable to take their examinations. There will be a deferred series of examinations for those students.