Results day arrives for Longford's 667 Leaving Cert students

Results day has arrived for Longford's 667 Leaving Cert students.

Leaving Certificate (621) and Leaving Certificate Applied (46) candidates will be issued with their results today, Friday, August 25.

From 10am Leaving Certificate candidates may access their provisional results through the State Examinations Commission (SEC) Candidate Self Service Portal (CSSP) accessible at www.examinations.ie

Candidates can view their provisional  results and will also be able to print a statement of their provisional results.

Schools may access results for  all of the candidates in the school through the SEC’s Schools Portal.

Schools have been asked to make  arrangements to support candidates receiving results today. 

The most notable difference between this year’s Leaving Certificate cohort and previous cohorts is that none  of this group of students sat Junior Cycle examinations due to the pandemic.

In this group, those who  undertook Transition Year should have sat the Junior Cycle in 2021 and those who went straight to fifth year  should have sat the Junior Cycle in 2020.

As a result, the Leaving Certificate examinations are the first formal  state examinations that these candidates have sat. 

Speaking on the 2023 Leaving Certificate results, the Chairperson of the State Examinations Commission,  Mr Pat Burke offered his congratulations to all of the candidates receiving their results.  

“I, and my fellow Commissioners, would like to offer our sincere congratulations to candidates  receiving their Leaving Certificate results today, which is a notable milestone for these young  people.  

"Since the beginning of the pandemic, the Commissioners and I have endeavoured to ensure that  candidates taking the Leaving Certificate and Leaving Certificate Applied examinations are treated  as fairly and equitably as possible having regard to the adverse impact of Covid19. We welcomed  the clarity provided to the education system in September 2022 through the early notification of  the level of adjustment to the assessment arrangements this year. In response, we have delivered  adjusted examinations and assessments which take account of the disruption to learning for this  year’s cohort.

"We have again applied a post-marking adjustment to the examination results in  order to give effect to the Minister’s commitment that there would be no ‘cliff edge’ return to pre pandemic aggregate grade profiles and the subsequent decision that this should mean that the  overall set of results for 2023 should on the aggregate be no lower than 2022. Through this  measure it is intended that the Leaving Certificate class of 2023 will not be disadvantaged when  competing with the class of 2022 or previous years for opportunities in further or higher education  or employment." 

Of the 61,736 candidates receiving results this year, 58,006 candidates followed the Leaving Certificate  (Established) programme in 409,643 individual subjects, of which 12,848 (20.8%) candidates followed the  Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme (LCVP). A further 3,730 (6%) candidates followed the Leaving  Certificate Applied Programme.

Leaving Certificate Appeals Process 

Applications to appeal can only be made through the Candidate Self Service Portal between 10 am on Sunday, September 3 and 5pm on Monday, September 4. Appeal Applications are subject to a fee of €40 per subject  for Leaving Certificate Established and €15.50 in the case of Leaving Certificate Applied. The appeal fee will  be refunded if an upgrade is awarded. The date of issue of results of the Leaving Certificate appeals is  dependent on the number of appeals received and will be announced in due course. 

Access to Examination Scripts  

Candidates need to be aware that the only opportunity that they will have to access their written examination  scripts in advance of the appeal application closing date, is to apply to view their script on between 5pm on August 29 and 8pm on August 30. Candidates viewing scripts which were marked on paper are allowed to bring a  mobile phone, tablet or digital camera with them to the viewing session in order to make a copy of their own  script(s). Scripts viewed on-line may be printed during the viewing session only.