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60,000 Students To Receive Leaving Cert Results Tomorrow

Thursday, 24 August 2023 13:26

Guidance counsellors and recruitment experts have offering advice to those picking up their results in the morning.

60,000 Leaving Cert students will receive their results tomorrow.

Those who sat the exams earlier this year will have access to their results online at 10am.

"Take a step back and don't rush into any ideas", that's the advice from Mullingar Guidance Counsellor Betty McLaughlin to students who will be considering their options tomorrow.

She says the choice can be incredibly difficult:

Abbeyleix's Daisy Thomas chose to take a year out after getting 525 points in her Leaving Cert.

She says she wanted to make sure she knew what she doing before she settled on a course:

Having a level 8 university degree is "not important at all" according to the CEO of a recruitment agency.

That's according to Gary O' Keeffe of Crewit Resourcing, based in Portlaoise

He says that doing well in the exams is still important, but mainly because it prepares students for "knuckling down" and working after school.

Mr O' Keeffe says everyone has learned their skills and gotten their experience from someone else:

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