{"id":479643,"date":"2026-06-02T19:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T19:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/479643\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T19:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T19:08:08","slug":"watch-exam-papers-arrive-at-schools-ahead-of-state-exams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/479643\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Exam papers arrive at schools ahead of State exams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exam papers have been arriving at schools around the country ahead of the Leaving Cert and Junior Cycle written exams beginning tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of students will be starting their exams with English Paper 1 and last minute preparations have been under way in schools to make sure everything is ready for their arrival.<\/p>\n<p>As nerves rise for pupils, we asked John Paul Hayes, the principal of Kildare Town Community School, to share some advice on how to approach the days ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video to hear what he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exam papers have been arriving at schools around the country ahead of the Leaving Cert and Junior Cycle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-479643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}