Local students receive Junior Cert results today
A total of 73,336 candidates are receiving their results.
The long-awaited day has arrived for local students who receive their Junior Cert results today.
The State Examinations Commission (SEC) has congratulates all of the candidates who sat the examination in 2025 and whose results. A total of 73,336 candidates are receiving their results, similar to the 2024 figure of 72,833. This is the third year in a row that the number of candidates taking the Junior Cycle examinations (or any of its predecessors - the Junior Certificate or Intermediate Certificate) has exceeded 70,000 candidates.
From this morning school authorities can access the results in digital format through the SEC’s Schools Portal. School authorities will arrange to print the Statements of Provisional Results, which are in PDF format, and prepare them for issue to candidates. As in other years, the timing of the distribution of the results to candidates is at the discretion of the school authorities who exercise a common-sense approach in this regard.
Revised Junior Cycle grade bands have been introduced this year following the announcement by the Minster for Education and Youth in April 2025. There are the same number of grade bands as before with the top four grade descriptors (Distinction, Higher Merit, Merit, and Achieved) being evenly distributed in bands of fifteen percentage points. The decision to make this change followed careful consideration by the Department of Education and Youth in conjunction with the SEC and the NCCA taking on board feedback about the impact that the previous grade bands may have been having on the teaching and learning experience. This feedback came from many stakeholders including teachers and school leaders as well as candidates taking examinations, their parents and guardians.
For 2025, in order to give effect to this announcement, the revised grade bands have been implemented by the SEC as a technical adjustment. This means that the examinations were marked by examiners in the normal way using the grading standards based on the previous grade bands. When all of the marking and the results quality assurance procedures were completed, the SEC implemented a technical intervention to apply the new grade boundaries to the marks achieved in the examinations. More information on the Grade Band changes and their effect on the results is included below.
The date for the issue of results this year aligns with last year’s results despite the additional time needed for the technical intervention to be implemented.
