Nearly 5,000 exam centres will host some 118,000 exam candidates this morning, as the Leaving and Junior Certificate exams get underway.
Nearly 55,000 of them are taking the Leaving Certificate, including the Vocational Programme, while over 3,000 will do the Leaving Cert Applied.
A record number of students - more than 17,000 are planning to sit honours maths this year, although traditionally around 2-thousand drop down to ordinary maths at the last minute.
More than 60,000 secondary students will sit the Junior Cert exams.
Minister of State for Training and Skills, Ciarán Cannon, is urging students to try not to get too stressed:
