ieExplains: Key dates for Leaving Cert students, teachers and parents
Leaving Cert exams start on Wednesday morning with English paper 1. File picture: Mark Stedman/RollingNews.ie
Leaving Cert exams start on Wednesday morning (June 4) with English paper 1, and continue in the afternoon with home economics.
The exams will run until Tuesday, June 24, finishing up with Japanese, Arabic, religious education, and applied maths. A full Leaving Cert timetable can be found on examinations.ie.
A new grading system was introduced for all Leaving Cert subjects in 2017, replacing the traditional ABC grading system. The new system now uses eight grade bands, each 10% wide. For a student to achieve the top mark at higher level (H1), they need to score between 90 to 100% in the subject overall.
Students should receive their Leaving Cert results on Friday, August 22. The first round of college offers is due to go to students on Wednesday, August 26, at 2pm.
The State Examinations Commission (SEC) will run a set of deferred exams later in June and July. These are strictly limited to students who experience a close family bereavement, or who suffer serious medical conditions such as accidents, injuries or illness.
Access to these exams should be seen as a “last resort” and the SEC only grants access to students who meet the criteria. It warns against viewing them as “second chance examinations”. Unless a student is “absolutely sure” they meet the criteria, they should attend the exams in June as normal.
The CAO Change of Mind facility, which allows students to add, remove, or reorder their college course online, closes on July 1 at 5pm.
College course entry points are subject to change, and are determined by a number of factors. There has been a surge in applications to the CAO this year, and data collected earlier in the year suggests strong interest in nursing, teaching and medicine, as well as engineering.
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