Here are some useless but interesting facts about the State Exams in 2009. For more info, please check out this ‘media information pack’ which we stumbled upon a while ago…
- 55,557 junior certs
- 54,197 leaving certs (incl 4,361 externals, 2,212 repeats)
- 3,264 LCAs
- 3.1m exam papers
- 38m A4 pages
- 84,546 oral tests
- 4,655 superintendants
- 6,469 examiners (to mark exams)
- 966,634 grades leading to exam results for 113,018 students
- 12,712 appeals
- 2,954 students were allowed use dictionaries in exams (because english or irish wasn’t their first language)
- €66.6m in running costs
- €9.7 collected in fees
Also worth noting that in the leaving cert (2009) there were 10,109 appeals. 2046 got upgraded, only 5 got downgraded. So based on those stats if you pay for appeals you’ve a 20% chance of getting upgraded 😉