The Leaving Cert results for more than 56,000 students will be available from tomorrow morning.
Most schools are expected to have the results ready for collection by 10 a.m. Students can also access their results on-line from noon tomorrow. The results are available from www.examinations.ie
Students will require a personal PIN number to receive their own results. These were issued to students via their school earlier this year. Last year thousands of students received their results while working or on holiday abroad. The Department of Education said students logged on from over 20 countries.
The first round of CAO offers will be available next Tuesday. The second round offers will be known one week later, on September 3rd.
Students who wish to recheck their papers have until August 21st to inform their school that they wish to view a particular subject paper.
Viewing will take place on August 30th between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. and on the following day between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m.
If having examined the script the student wants a recheck he/she must do so by September 4th. A fee of €31.74 is required; this is refunded if the recheck leads to a higher grade.
The number who sat the exam this year (56,837) was the lowest for a decade. In 1995, for example, 68,000 students completed the exam, 12,000 more than this year's figure.
The decline in the number taking the Leaving Cert has also been accompanied by an explosion in the number of places on offer in universities, in the institutes of technology and in Post-Leaving Cert courses (PLCs).
Most interest in this year's results will focus on the marking of the higher-level biology which promoted an unprecedented level of complaints from students, parents and teachers. Many students were taken aback when they were asked about laboratory experiments on frog tadpoles for only the second time in 31 years.
The marking of all science papers is set to attract attention. Earlier this year the Government Task Force on Physical Science said there was evidence that science subjects were marked more severely than others.
The other focus will be on the number failing ordinary-level maths.