State exams get underway tomorrow

Tension is in the air for 4,700 families across Meath this week as the State examinations get underway tomorrow.
Some 4,703 Meath students will sit the Leaving Certificate and Junior Certificate examinations in 19 schools around the county, joining the 120,000 candidates who will take their seats in the 5,000 examination centres countywide this week.
A total of  2238 students will sit their Leaving Certificate in Meath and of those 101 will be taking the Leaving Certificate Applied exam.
Among those doing the Leaving in Meath are 1113 girls and 1025 boys, while 35 girls and 66 boys are taking the Applied examination.
Some 2,465 students will sit the Junior Certificate in Meath, 1,218 of whom are girls and 1,247 boys.
Since the weekend, over 5,000 superintendents involved in supervising the written examinations will take possession of the locked boxes containing the four million examination papers that are required by candidates over the 13 day examination period.
Over 4,300 examiners will then be involved in marking the work presented by candidates in the written examinations.
This is in addition to over 2,300 examiners required to mark the oral and practical tests.
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 Certificate Applied programme finish on Thursday 16th June.
The results of the Leaving Certificate examinations will be available on Wednesday 17th August 2016. Results of the Junior Certificate will be available in mid-September 2016.