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State Examinations

Department/Agency

State Examinations Commission

Key information

Leaving Certificate candidates (distinguishing external and school candidates) by examination level, sex, subject and grade results; Leaving Certificate Applied candidates by sex, grade and county; Junior Certificate candidates by examination level, sex, subject and grade results.

Links

Links to web pages that lead to the statistics:

Contact

corporate.affairs@examinations.ie Corporate Affairs Division at tel:090 644 2851/2852/2853

Source

State Examinations Commission administrative records.

Scope

All state examinations

Frequency

Annual

Reference period

August and September (provisional Leaving and Junior Certificate respectively), October and November (post-appeals Leaving and Junior Certificate respectively)

Start date

2000

Timeliness

About two days after the release of results

Classifications

  • Subject (Leaving Certificate)
    Accounting; Agricultural economics; Agricultural science; Ancient Greek; Applied mathematics; Arabic; Art; Biology; Bulgarian; Business; Chemistry; Classical studies; Construction studies; Czech; Danish; Dutch; Economics; Engineering; English; Estonian; Finnish; French; Geography; German; Hebrew studies; History; Home economics; Hungarian; Irish; Italian; Japanese; Latin; Latvian; Lithuanian; Mathematics; Modern Greek; Music; Physics; Physics & chemistry; Polish; Portuguese; Religious education; Romanian; Russian; Slovakian; Spanish; Swedish; Agricultural science; Technology; Design and communication graphics.
  • Subject (Junior Certificate)
    Ancient Greek; Art, craft & design; Business studies; Classical studies; English; French; Geography; German; Hebrew studies; History; Home economics; Irish; Italian; Latin; Material technology (wood); Mathematics; Metalwork; Music; Religious education; Science; Spanish; Technical graphics; Technology; Typewriting; Civic, social and political education.
  • Examination level (Leaving Certificate)
    Higher; Ordinary; Foundation.
  • Examination level (Junior Certificate)
    Higher; Ordinary; Common; Foundation.
  • Grade (Leaving Certificate)
    A1; A2; B1; B2; B3; C1; C2; C3; D1; D2; D3; E; F; NG.
  • Grade (Leaving Certificate Applied)
    Distinction; Merit; Pass; Record of credits.
  • Grade (Junior Certificate)
    A; B; C; D; E; F; NG.

Theme

People and Society - Education

Page Created

2009-03-03

Page Modified

2017-07-25

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