Almost 73,000 students at schools around the country will receive their Junior Cycle results on Wednesday.
Nearly 650,000 grades in 22 individual subjects are to be issued to 72,828 students this year.
From this morning, schools can access results in digital format through the State Examination Commission’s (SEC) schools portal.
This is the third year of the SEC’s return to externally-delivered Junior Cycle exams under the reformed Junior Cycle curriculum.
Due to the pandemic in 2020 and 2021, the Junior Cycle examinations were cancelled for most candidates and replaced by school-based assessments.
Until 2019, just English, science, and business studies had been examined under the reformed Junior Cycle curriculum.
Apart from Irish, English, and maths — which are still examined at higher and ordinary level — all Junior Cycle subjects are now examined at common level.
Of the results issued today, Wednesday, 94% (604,000) were either full or partially marked using the SEC’s online marking system.
A combination of an increase in the number of teachers marking the examination and online marking in almost all Junior Cycle subjects means this year’s results are available to schools a week earlier than usual.
The official marking schemes for all subjects will be published on www.examinations.ie on Thursday, October 10.
