Limerick students to receive Junior Cert results five months after exams

THOUSANDS of Limerick students will receive their Junior Cert results this Wednesday, two weeks later than usual.

The State Examinations Commission will issue the results to schools and students will also be able to access them online from 4pm. 

The results will be issued five months after pupils sat their exams with the delay being blamed on a shortage of examiners and the priorotisation of marking the Leaving Cert. 

The 2022 exams were the first to be held after a two year absence due to the pandemic.

Over 68,400 candidates took part in the exams, a 5% increase on the amount of participants in 2019. 

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Students took exams in 21 different subjects in schools across the country. 

In September, Limerick students celebrated their Leaving Cert results with one young person breaking records by achieving top marks. 

Luke Nicholas attended Glenstal Abbey School, who shared the news that their past pupil had achieved nine H1 grades in his exams.

The former School Captain has been offered a place to read English at Sidney Sussex College Cambridge after studying at Glenstal for the last six years.