Plans to spend €12m on new marking system for State exams

Shauna White and Natalia Sieradzk, both pupils of the Nagle Community College, Cork, who will access their Leaving Cert results by phone. Picture: Dan Linehan

The State Examinations Commission is to spend up to €12m on a new online marking system for the Junior and Leaving Certificate exams from 2024.

The exam body has tendered for a company to deliver an online script-marking solution together with a scanning system capable of uploading 75% of scripts to the SEC less than 12 days after an exam takes place.