Junior Cycle

Key dates for Classroom-Based Assessment

The window in which schools can schedule Classroom-Based Assessments and Subject Learning Assessment and Review (SLAR) meetings is below. Classroom-based assessments should be completed within the time allocated (e.g. 3 weeks, 4 weeks) as specified in the Assessment Guidelines for each subject. Subject Learning Assessment and Review meetings should take place no more than a month after completion of the CBA. Where necessary, key dates for classroom-based assessments may be amended in light of particular circumstances schools may encounter due to Covid19.

Student Cohort 2020 – 2023 (3rd years in 2022/2023)

Classroom-Based Assessment 2 in Applied Technology, Engineering, Graphics and Wood Technology1 (required)

Classroom-Based Assessment 2 in Visual Art (required)

Classroom-Based Assessment 1 in Gaeilge (optional)

Classroom-Based Assessment 2 in Gaeilge, Home Economics, Music (required)

Classroom-Based Assessment 2 in English, Science, Business Studies, Modern-Foreign Languages, Mathematics, History, Geography, Classics, Religious Education, Jewish Studies (optional)

Relevant brief or project document for technologies subjects will issue immediately after the completion date for CBA2.

Student Cohort 2021 – 2024 (2nd years in 2022/2023)

Arrangements for this cohort remain as per the FrameworkforJuniorCycle(2015).

Classroom-Based Assessment 1 in all subjects, with the exception of Gaeilge2

Notes re: Classroom-Based Assessments in school year 2022/2023

Students complete Classroom-Based Assessments with support and guidance from their teachers. Detailed information about the formats, topics and timeframe for completion of CBAs in each subject and short course is included in the relevant Guidelines for the Classroom-Based Assessments, which are available on www.curriculumonline.ie/Junior-cycle. While Classroom-Based Assessments are designed to take place under the guidance of the teacher in a classroom context, schools have flexibility in the school year 2022 – 2023, in light of changing circumstances which may arise due to COVID-19, to support students to complete CBAs in school and/or remotely.

Particular attention is drawn to the following:

• With the exception of circumstances which may arise due to COVID-19, students complete CBAs primarily during class time, with support and guidance from the
• Students who cannot attend school due to circumstances arising from COVID-19 can be facilitated to research, create and complete their CBA remotely, with support and guidance from the teacher.
• As teacher/student interaction, including conversation and responses to unscripted questions, is integral to the communicative task in Gaeilge (CBA2) and oral communication in Modern Foreign Languages (CBA1), students should interact with the teacher when completing this CBA.
• In Visual Art, one CBA must usually be presented in 3D. This requirement is waived for students in third year in 2022/23.
• In Physical Education short course, students in third year in 2022/23 are required to complete a minimum of one Classroom-Based Assessment.
• In Business Studies, for students in second year in 2022/2023, CBA1 is a group project, as outlined in the relevant assessment Where necessary, in line with public health advice at the time or due to circumstances which may arise due to COVID-19, students may complete an individual report for their CBA1, as per the link above.

² Classroom-Based Assessments 1 and 2 in Gaeilge are completed by students during their third year of junior cycle.