There are calls for special allowances for students who have suffered a personal grief.
A TD has called for an emergency scheme to allow leaving cert students to re-sit certain exams.
Fianna Fáil's Mary Butler made the call after it emerged that a girl from Co Waterford was forced to sit her business exam, just 12 hours after her mother died of cancer.
The Deputy says students should be allowed to re-take the exam after a couple of months if there are emergency circumstances.
The Student in question, Rhona Butler last week recalled how difficult it was to sit the exam just hours after her mum's passing.
“My school couldn’t have done anything for me, they would have if they could have… I didn’t want to make it any more abnormal than it was'”.
“If I didn’t show up on the day, that was my problem. It wasn’t the department’s, they didn’t care.
“They see us as exam numbers, we’re much more than that,” she said.
Rhona explained how there are two sets of papers that they chose from so she reasoned that students in the middle of bereavement could take those exams two weeks later rather than at the time of their beloved’s death.
“It’s not fair on the student, it’s not fair on the family and it’s not fair on the school either.”
