Leaving Cert appeal results to be released today

Leaving Certificate results have been made available to students who appealed their original grades.

Appeal applications were made by 12,509 candidates against 26,454 individual results this year.

Following the appeals process, 5,119 results have been upgraded, which is 19% of the total number of appealed grades.

The State Examinations Commission (SEC) has also issued 110 upgrades in results that candidates had not appealed as part of its own assurance checks.

The number of appeals was 27% higher than in 2025, when 20,764 results were appealed by 10,048 candidates, and 85% higher than in 2024, when 14,287 appeals were processed by the SEC.

19% of candidates following the established Leaving Certificate programme made an appeal against one or more results.

Less than ten of the 4,779 Leaving Certificate Applied candidates appealed their results.