Talks are continuing today in an effort to reach a definitive decision on whether the Leaving Cert should go ahead.
The Education Minister met with officials and teaching unions yesterday to discuss whether exams could be safely held.
The feasibility of teachers predicting students grades was also discussed.
There's an expectation in political circles there will be an announcement sooner rather than later.
Fianna Fail's education spokesperson, Thomas Byrne, thinks the exams should, and will, be cancelled.
"It doesn't appear to me at least on the surface that they've had the imagination to try and deal with this.
"Every other country pretty much in the Western world has abandoned final exams in schools.
"So what the department should have been doing is working on a fair alternative, which does exist."
