With physical awareness aural comprehension returned.

In everyday conversation, people with normal vision, hearing and social skills sub-consciously use information from the lips and face to aid aural comprehension and most fluent speakers of a language are able to speechread to some extent (see McGurk effect).

The Higher level examination has three parts, two written papers, which last 3 hours (180 minutes) in total and are worth 210 marks, and an aural comprehension (Irish: Cluastuiscint) examination, which lasts 30 minutes, with a maximum of 40 marks available.