Students are being warned that giving gifts to teachers will be considered a serious attempt to influence Leaving Cert grades.
The warning is included in new detailed guidance on the Leaving Cert's predictive marking system being issued to schools today.
It will set out how teachers will be expected to grade students and the criteria they should use.
The Education Minister Joe McHugh has said a students' results won't be based on any single exam including the mocks.
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A two-hour limit for meetings will remain in place, even if all the Covid-19 restrictions are lifted by September.
Employers are being urged to still restrict staff in the workplace, while meetings should be no longer than 2 hours, to reduce the risk of workers becoming symptomatic if someone in the room has the virus.
The Houses of the Oireachtas and the Courts are limiting sittings to under two hours, following HSE guidance.
A further 11 people with Covid-19 have died, bringing the death toll to 1,571, while there have been over 24,300 confirmed cases.
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175 convicted sex-offenders are being supervised in the community after being released from prison.
According to freedom of information figures, 42 are managed by probation services in the midlands and southeast.
They range from young adults to pensioners.
Rape victim Debbie Cole says people should, in some cases, be allowed know if one lives near them, citing British laws.
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71% of people believe the next government would fail the people of Ireland if they didn't act on climate change.
Two-thirds claim the issue should be prioritised in the economic recovery after Covid-19.
And 90% say climate change policies should be guided by expert advice.
The findings are based on a poll by Opinions Market Research.
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The number of cases of COVID-19 around the world is approaching five million.
Yesterday saw the biggest daily rise in COVID-19 confirmed cases around the world since the pandemic began.
The World Health Organisation said 106,000 new cases were recorded in 24 hours - almost two thirds of which were reported in just four countries.
There are now 4,999,981 confirmed cases around the world according to the latest data form Johns Hopkins University.
