Despite another year of record Leaving Cert results, which were boosted after initial marking to keep in line with the Class of 2022, points have dropped for more than half (52.4%) of Level 8 college courses

Here, you can use the Irish Examiner's interactive CAO calculator to find the latest points information for both Level 8 and Level 7/6 courses

Today, almost 84,300 people who applied for college places through the Central Applications Office (CAO) will find out if they have received an offer when the first round of cut-off points is published.

I’m an educator with a passion for education. The Leaving Cert has little to do with education

Latisha McCrudden, 18, from Roscommon, hopes to study law at University of Galway

On Friday, almost 62,000 Leaving Cert students received their results in what has become a rite of passage for young people in Ireland.

The student at Christian Brothers College received his results on Friday as the 2023 results were issued to students across the country

Breakthrough Maths founder TJ Hegarty is warning this year’s grade inflation is 'detrimental' to students who work hard to get a H1 in subjects like maths

The principal said: 'These students faced very challenging circumstances and the Leaving Cert was the first State exam they sat.'

'Never in my wildest dreams did I think that I'd get 97%. I thought that it would be brilliant if I even got 60%'

Most students will have been happy to see Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ feature as the 25-mark question on the listening paper, which has not been examined in depth since 2012

This year’s accounting exam suited someone who was “match fit, with plenty of practice”, as the Leaving Cert exams continued on Wednesday evening.

The Leaving Cert exams continued this Tuesday morning with both higher and ordinary-level Spanish

The Leaving Cert exams continued Monday with agricultural science on Monday afternoon, and the non-curricular languages, as well as Polish, Portuguese, Lithuanian, and Mandarin Chinese.

The 2023 State exams continue on Monday with Leaving Cert Polish, Lithuanian, Portuguese, and Mandarin Chinese, as well as the non-curricular languages, Hebrew studies and Ancient Greek

The State exams continued on Friday with Leaving Cert German, and Junior Cycle music, and Junior Cycle Jewish Studies

This is the first year for the new art history curriculum to be examined but teachers say they are 'quite happy' 

The 2023 State exams continued this Thursday morning with Leaving Cert Business and Junior Cycle German

State exams continued on Wednesday afternoon with Leaving Cert history and Junior Cycle Spanish

The 2023 exams continued this Wednesday morning with Leaving Cert French and Junior Cycle home economics.

This year's question about the skeleton might have jarred some students, Biology teacher Margaret McGagh believed, as it asked about the ‘innominate’ bones, which are part of the appendicular skeleton.

The State exams continued this Tuesday morning with Leaving Cert Irish paper 2, Junior Cycle graphics, and Junior Cycle Italian

The State examinations continued this Monday evening, with Leaving Cert Irish paper 1 and Junior Cycle business studies

Leaving Cert maths paper 1, examined on Friday evening, proved to be a very difficult exam experience for many students

The State exams continued this Monday morning with Leaving Cert maths and Junior Cycle science

Some asked 'rather sweetly' if they interpreted her poem correctly

A number of students reported feeling tired after the exam. 

The 2023 State exams continued this Friday morning, with Leaving Cert geography and Junior Cycle history

Meanwhile, this year’s Leaving Cert engineering paper featured extended reality (XR), classic car restoration, delivery robots and foldable electric scooters

State exams

The first day of the State exams continued this afternoon with the first elective subjects to be examined in 2023

For more than 63,500 Leaving Cert students, Wednesday also marks the first time they will sit an official State exam

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Junior Cert results

The State Examinations Commission said its continued objective is to "substantially increase" the numbers of teachers involved in marking

Students across the country are set to receive their long-awaited Junior Cert results today, the first year in which all exams have been delivered under the new curriculum.

It’s understood that poor ticket sales were the main reason for the cancellation

Cara Darmody's campaign has seen her go all the way to Leinster House, where she met the Taoiseach and addressed an Oireachtas committee

A 12-year-old schoolgirl has become the youngest person to pass a Junior Cert exam — and she got 97%. Cara Darmody’s maths exam result has just been broadcast live on Friday’s Late Late Show.

Norma Foley is bottom of the Junior Cert class

A report found that the new Junior Cycle may be boosting students’ confidence in class, but teachers say it has increased their workloads

Extreme shortage of examiners this year coupled with an increase in students sitting the exam have led to delay, Dáil committee told

Relaxation of rules relating to career breaks and measures to encourage retired teachers to return to work also being examined, conference told