Leaving and Junior Cert students encouraged to 'mind themselves' as exams get under way 

Fifth year pupils Andrea Toye, Leah Hennessy, Zsofia Gztrenen, Gulmira Cetinkaya and Rouguie Barry with teacher Fiona Glynn getting the rooms ready for the start of the Leaving and Junior Cert examinations at the Ursuline College Blackrock, Cork. Picture: Dan Linehan

More than 136,000 Junior and Leaving Certificate students who will begin their State exams on Wednesday morning have been told to “look after” themselves over the coming weeks above all else.

The students will face into their first papers from 9.30am — English paper one for those at senior cycle and English for those doing junior cycle — at 817 venues across the country.