The SEC spokeswoman said that for context, a total of 70,105 candidates sat Leaving Certificate and Leaving Certificate Applied examinations in 2026, leading to the issue of over 470,000 individual results.

A new curriculum was introduced last month and includes revised courses for biology, chemistry, physics, business and classical languages

New figures provided by the State Examinations Commission (SEC) show that the 155 2025 Leaving Cert results have been permanently with-held because of cheating and the 155 compares to 71 results permanently withheld by the SEC at the same point in 2024.

The State Examinations Commission (SEC) said 86 results had been withheld during 2024’s Leaving Cert cycle compared to only 39 the year before

The numbers suspected to have cheated in this year’s Leaving Certificate and Leaving Certificate Applied has almost doubled to 114 students