Leaving Cert Results Guide 2024: Key Dates, Appeals, Offers & Next Steps

The Leaving Certificate Class of 2024 received their Leaving Cert results on Friday 23rd August.  The CAO will release their first round of college offers on Wednesday 28th August. CareersPortal has you covered with everything you’ll need to know in one place - check out the Leaving Cert Results 2024 - What’s Next Guide for everything you will need to know.

Leaving Certificate Results

Now that you have your Leaving Cert results, you may be anticipating what to do next. Below we have linked various informative pages that will help you with your next steps.   

The What’s Next Guide is there to help students who may have questions around Leaving Cert Results Day including:

CAO Round One offers

Leaving Certificate 2024 students who have applied to CAO will be informed of potential offers in Round One on Wednesday 28th August from 2.00 pm

Leaving Cert 2024 CAO Points will be Live here at 2.00pm on August 28th

After receiving your Leaving Cert results and CAO offers, the following are some of the most important considerations which you should consider and these and other questions are covered in the What’s Next Guide:

  1. CAO offers
  2. CAO acceptances 
  3. Money Matters - Grant Applications; Accommodation arrangements etc.
  4. Other Options - Contingency plans; Repeat Leaving Cert, PLC (Post Leaving Cert Courses), Further Education and Training, Apprenticeships, UCAS Clearing, Gap Year, Finding a Job and Study Abroad options.