Results day: what we know so far
Thousands of students (and their parents) face a nervous wait before they can access their results online at 10am.
So, what do we know so far?
The State Examinations Commission has released a national breakdown of the results. They show most of this year’s Leaving Cert students’ grades have been artificially inflated to bring them into line with record highs of recent years.
It follows a direction by Minister for Education Norma Foley that this year’s overall Leaving Cert exam results should be kept in line with record highs of recent years, in recognition of disruption to their education.
The Minister’s intervention means more than two-thirds (68 per cent) of students’ grades have been adjusted upwards.
Continuing with these high grade levels of grades means Leaving Cert results are at record high levels for a fifth successive year, with knock-on consequences for CAO points.
The graph, below, gives a sense of how the proportion of top grades has increased dramatically since the pandemic and stayed at a high level since 2021.
You can read more on this year’s results here.
