Leaving Cert results due this morning

 

 

Leaving Cert students across the region will receive their examination results later today (Tuesday) - a day earlier than in previous years.

It follows the 2018 High Court ruling which found that Wexford student Rebecca Carter was treated unfairly, as she would have been forced to wait a year to begin her college course due to the time it took0to re-correct her Leaving Cert business paper, found to have been incorrectly totted up.

The earlier results time is part of a suite of measures introduced for 2019 in an attempt to shorten the exam result appeal process.

Now appeal results will be issued in mid-September this year, three weeks earlier than before.

Students will meanwhile begin to receive their first-round offers from the CAO on Thursday, August 15 - five days earlier than was the traditional date.

More than 800 students will received their Leaving Certificate results in Cavan in 2019.

This includes 434 females and 372 males. Some 60 more students will receive their Leaving Certificate Applied results- 23 females and 37 males.

The number awaiting results is up on year when 754 sat their Leaving Cert in Cavan schools; while 52 completed their LCA.

By comparison, 786 students in Monaghan sat their Leaving Certificate in 2019- 417 female and 369 male- with a further 46 taking up Leaving Cert Applied- 18 female and 28 male.

In other neighbouring counties, a total of 408 students in Co Leitrim will get their results; 632 in Co Longford; and 2,348 in Co Meath, plus 105 Leaving Cert Applied.

The overall number sitting the examinations is 58,787 in 2019. Of the candidates who sat Leaving Certificate examinations this year, 56,071 candidates followed the Leaving Certificate (Established) programme, of which 13,124 (22.3%) followed the Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme. A further 2,716 (4.6%) candidates followed the Leaving Certificate Applied Programme.

It is the third year also that the new grading system has taken effect, since its introduction in 2017. The new grading system reduces the number of grades from 14 in the old system to just eight under the revised arrangements.

However candidates receiving results in Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Link Modules and Politics and Society had their examinations marked using an online marking system. Their scripts were scanned and marked by examiners using specially designed software. Candidates’ scripts were marked on a computer, not by a computer. When it comes to the viewing of scripts candidates will view these scripts online.

“The results obtained this year are broadly in line with those obtained in 2018 and previous years,” the State Examinations Commission say.

From the earlier time of 10am on Tuesday this year, students who are not in a position to collect their results in person from their school can access them through the SEC’s new online Candidate Self-Service Portal on www.examinations.ie.

Applications to View Scripts, via an online process, opens at 9am on Wednesday and closes 5pm on Friday.

Access to component marks meanwhile can be accessed online only from 9am on Wednesday.

The viewing of scripts on paper takes place on Tuesday (5pm-8pm) and Wednesday (9am-5pm), August 20-21.

The Appeal process opens online only from 5pm on August 16 and closes five days later, with results of said appeals due back in the week ending Friday, September 20.

The Junior Certificate Cycle results are not expected to be released until late September.