Twelfth Grade - Ireland

Ireland

In Ireland, it is the sixth and final year of Secondary School, Sixth Year or Séú Bhlian (for 17-18 year olds), in which students take the Leaving Certificate Examinations or Scrúduithe na hArdteistiméireachta.

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