Entry process to open for Leaving Certificate 2020 

The State Examinations Commission (SEC) has announced that entry for the Leaving Certificate written examinations, to be held in November, will open from 9am on Monday, September 28th, on the Calculated Grades Student Portal, available at www.examinations.ie and at Gov.ie/leaving certificate.

Entries will be accepted over five days, closing at 5pm on Friday, October 2nd. Leaving Certificate Applied (LCA) candidates will be able to enter by emailing LCAexams2020@examinations.ie anytime over this five-day period. Subject to public health advice in relation to the holding of the state examinations in November, the Leaving Certificate written examinations will commence on Monday, November 16th, and conclude on Friday, December 11th, and will take place with one examination on weekday evenings and two examination sessions at weekends, on both Saturdays and Sundays.

The examinations are scheduled to start at 5.30pm each weekday evening, and at 9.30am and 2pm on both days at weekends. The LCA written examinations commence on Monday, November 16th, and conclude on Saturday, November 28th. The published timetables for the examinations will be available on the SEC website www.examinations.ie when the student portal opens on Monday.

There will be one sitting of the Leaving Certificate 2020 examinations in November 2020. Candidates who cannot attend an examination for which they have entered can apply to sit the Leaving Certificate examinations in 2021. Candidates who had entered for the Leaving Certificate/LCA examinations which were postponed from last June can enter for any or all of the examinations for which they had previously entered.