Exam D-Day lands for close to 117,000 students

The first exams for almost 117,000 Junior and Leaving Certificate students beginat hundreds of schools, colleges and other centres this morning.

The State Examinations Commission (SEC) has printed more than 3m exam papers on 38m pages for the 53,749 candidates for the Leaving Certificate, 2,853 entered for Leaving Certificate Applied and 60,243 Junior Certificate students.

It is the first year that all Junior Certificate students will be examined in part of the revised maths course, Project Maths, with questions on the first two strands to feature in next Monday’s Paper 2.