Here's how students have cheated in State exams

This year, 71 students who sat the Leaving Certificate have not been given their results over fears that they have cheated.

Using a mobile phone to access the Internet for answers and opening text books during toilet breaks during the course of an exam are just two of the cheating methods employed by Leaving Cert and Junior Cert students caught cheating in the State exams last year and in 2017.

Students in 2018 and 2017 were also found to have cheated by taking written notes into an exam centre; plagiarism and completing coursework outside of the school environment, according to information released by the State Examinations Commission (SEC) in response to a Freedom of Information request..