There is no set date for the issuing of this year’s Junior Certificate results, a spokesperson from the State Examinations Commission (SEC) has said.
The Junior Cert results were traditionally provided in mid-September before the pandemic but the issuing of grades has changed significantly since then. The Leaving Cert results, which are routinely released in mid-August, came out at the start of September this year.
The SEC told RTÉ that Junior Cert results would not be issued until they were aware of the number of appeals that had been lodged for Leaving Cert exam results. The deadline for appeal applications was this Monday. Several people have criticised the delayed release of Junior Cert results online, saying it is unfair on students who are anxiously awaiting their grades.
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One person wrote on Twitter: “Junior Cert students of 2022 have only known disrupted schooling. There is no good reason why the results are so late, in the same way there was no good reason for late LC results.”
The SEC told RTÉ that Junior Cert results would not be issued until they were aware of the number of appeals that had been lodged for Leaving Cert exam results. The deadline for appeal applications was this Monday.
The number of candidates sitting the exams reached a record high this year of 131,000 students. The sitting of the exams is up 6 percent from figures previously recorded in 2019. This year marked the reinstatement of Junior Cert exams for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic.
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