State Examinations 2025
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From: Department of Education
- Published on: 18 September 2024
- Last updated on: 14 April 2025
- Important Information about Leaving Certificate Examinations 2025
- Oral examinations
- Assessment Arrangements to State Examinations 2025
Important Information about Leaving Certificate Examinations 2025
The Leaving Certificate 2025 written exam will start on Wednesday, 4 June 2025 and finish on Tuesday, 24 June 2025.
Timetables for the examinations are available on the State Examination Commission’s website here
Information on the Junior Cycle and Leaving Certificate examinations, including regular updates throughout the examinations period, is available from the website of the State Examinations Commission www.examinations.ie .
The State Examinations Commission intends to issue the Leaving Certificate 2025 results on Friday 22 August 2025.
Oral examinations
The Oral examinations in Irish and the Modern Foreign Languages in 2025 will be delivered by State Examinations Commission appointed examiners in schools in the early part of the Easter holiday period from Saturday 12 April to Thursday 17 April inclusive.
Assessment Arrangements to State Examinations 2025
In April 2024, the Minister announced that the phased return to normal results would start in 2025, with a modest and gradual reduction in the level of post marking adjustment applied to minimise the impact on students in so far as possible.
The return to normal will be done in stages over the coming years, in a phased and student-centred way. The adjustment next year will seek to bring the overall set of results on the aggregate to a point no lower than broadly midway between 2020 and 2021 levels.
The same adjustments to assessment components themselves, including Leaving Certificate examination papers – for example, greater choice - will also apply for 2025.
These are the same as the assessment adjustments that applied for students sitting the 2023 and 2024 examinations
