A record number of Junior Cert students will collect their results today.
70 thousand 727 students sat the exam this year, and can get their results in school this morning or online from 4pm.
It's the first time that the number of candidates sitting the Junior Cycle exams or any of its predecessors - the Junior Cert or Inter Cert - has exceeded 70 thousand candidates.
Unlike in 2022, when results issued on 23 November, a combination of an increase in the number of teachers marking the examinations this year and the use of online marking in almost all Junior Cycle subjects has allowed for a return to a more normal timeframe for the issue of these results.
Some 629,189 grades in 21 individual subjects are being provided to 70,727 candidates this year. The overall number sitting Junior Cycle examinations has increased by 5% on 2022 and the proportion of candidates who are re-entrants to education has risen from 0.3 % of the cohort in 2022 to 0.4% in 2023.
Josepha Madigan, Minister of State for Special Education and Inclusion, is encouraging students not to stress over the results.
