State exam chiefs are planning to introduce online marking for Leaving Cert subjects this year, in a bid to make the process more accurate and faster. State exam chiefs are planning to introduce online marking for Leaving Cert subjects this year, in a bid to make the process more accurate and faster. From this year, Leaving Cert results will be released a day earlier and appeals outcomes will be delivered on September 16 rather than October 10. Now it intends to roll out online marking to all subjects that can be marked in this way, over the three-year period 2019-2021, including Leaving Cert subjects this year, for the first time. In online marking, students' scripts are scanned and converted to digital images that examiners access on their home computers.

Source: Irish Independent February 04, 2019 02:26 UTC