2,186 students from Kerry were among 72,828 candidates nationwide to receive their Junior Cert results this Wednesday and analysis shows that the collective performance in Kerry was superb.
Career Guidance Counsellor and Educational Commentator, Billy Ryle, said the results were on par with the very high standard of last year.
“It again confirms that candidates have adapted well to the new grade descriptors,” he said.
The six descriptors used are distinction, higher merit, merit, achieved, partially
achieved and not graded.
English, Irish and Mathematics were examined at both higher and ordinary levels and all other subjects were examined at common level.
The number of candidates who sat for the Junior Cycle exam this year was 2,101 which was up three per cent up on the 2023 figure of 70,727 and a whopping 5,693, or eight per cent, up on the 2022 figure of 67,135.
“The Junior Cycle exam is often overshadowed by the more public Leaving Cert exam but it’s a very important exam in its own right. It’s a prestigious exam of the State Examinations Commission and it’s the first opportunity for second level students to engage with a public exam of this nature,” Mr Ryle said.
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