Over 3,800 students begin exams

The Leaving Certificate and Junior Certificate State exams start today (Wednesday 8th June) at secondary schools around the county as over 3,800 Meath students begin the most important week of their lives. In the Leaving Certificate, the State Examination Commission predicts that it will have 1,788 candidates in Meath - 865 female and 923 male. In addition, there will be 55 females doing the Leaving Certificate Applied, and 81 males. In the Junior Certificate, Meath has 971 female candidates and 1,058 male pupils. Nationally, some 116,527 candidates will take their seats at almost 4,750 examination centres countrywide to begin their Leaving and Junior Certificate examinations. The examinations run until Thursday 23rd June for Junior Certificate subjects and Friday 24th June for Leaving Certificate subjects. The written examinations in the Leaving Cert Applied programme finish on Thursday 16th June. The results of the Leaving Cert exams will be available on Wednesday 17th August. Results of the Junior Cert will be available in mid-September. Over the June bank holiday weekend, the 4,750 superintendents involved in supervising the written examinations began to take possession of the boxes containing the three million examination papers that are required by candidates over the 13-day examination period. Over 4,000 examiners will be involved in examining the work presented by candidates in the written examinations. This is in addition to the some 2,000 examiners required to mark the oral and practical tests.