Date for Junior Cert results announced | Westmeath Independent

The Athlone-based State Examinations Commission (SEC) has confirmed that this year’s Junior Cycle results will be available to candidates from their schools on Wednesday, October 18.

Junior Cycle candidates can also access their results online from 4pm on that date. However, the SEC has stated that this online service is not intended to replace the valuable results service and advice provided by schools at results issue time.

The SEC said that in 2022 it was not possible to issue the Junior Cycle results until late November due to a combination of factors which included the later issue date for the Leaving Certificate results and, most especially, the impact of an acute shortage of teachers to mark the examinations.

It said since then it has been working with stakeholders on a comprehensive review of the issue of how to ensure that there are sufficient numbers of teachers engaging in this critical work.

In 2023, a combination of a much-improved examiner supply situation and the use of online marking in almost all Junior Cycle subjects has meant that it is possible to deliver these results five weeks earlier than last year, it explained.

This has been made possible by the generous response of teachers to the SEC’s examiner recruitment efforts this year

"The SEC is extremely grateful to those teachers who marked for us this year, and indeed to all those who undertook a variety of roles in the state examinations over the 2022/23 school year," a spokesperson said.

"We also deeply appreciate the work undertaken in support of the SEC’s efforts by school leaders, in highlighting with their staff the importance of undertaking work with the SEC, and by the school management and leadership representative bodies and the teacher unions. The additional funding which SEC received in 2023 to incentivise the uptake of this critical work has also had a significant impact and for this are very grateful to the Minister and her Department."