Almost 4000 of the students who sat the ordinary paper failed
It has emerged that almost 4,000 Leaving Cert students appear to have failed maths.
Which works out to around 10% of all those who sat the ordinary level paper.
However, Education Minister Richard Bruton does not think there is a problem with how maths is being taught.
Mr Bruton said: "I don't think that's fair, we're not disappointed with Honours maths, but it is a reality that some people in a test of this nature will fail to reach the standard that is being set.
"The chief examiner will examine this and report to us each year on what's happening, it does feed back then into the upskilling of teachers."
Pupils are now able to find out what they got by going into their school - they will have to wait until midday though if they want to look them up online.
