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A TOTAL of 2,682 Clare teenagers are registered to sit state exams from Wednesday.
As the sales of lucky rabbits feet, Mass cards and holy medals peak this week, 1,393 Leaving Certificate students from the county face their final tests in exam halls all over Clare.
A further 1,406 students will face state exams for the first time as they begin their Junior Certificate Examination, also beginning on Wednesday morning.
In addition, 67 Leaving Certificate Applied candidates will also complete their exam, which is made up of continued assessment.
And while many parish churches throughout the diocese of Killaloe are assisting with last minute divine inspiration with early morning masses on the morning of the first exams, nature is also playing its part with wet muggy weather promised for the early part on the examinations.
More male than female students are registered to sit the Leaving Certificate in Clare this year, with 664 girls and 729 boys scheduled to take the exam.
As many as 36 of the 67 students doing the Leaving Certificate Ap- plied in Clare are also male.
The gender balance of the number sitting the Junior Certificate in Clare is reversed however with 714 female students and 687 male students signed up for the exam.
Nationally some 118,673 candidates will take their seats in 4,962 examination centres countywide to begin their Leaving and Junior Certificate examinations.
From the June bank holiday weekend, over 4,962 superintendents involved in supervising the written examinations will take possession of the boxes containing the 3 million examination papers that are required by candidates over the 13 day exami- nation period. Over 4,000 examiners will be involved in examining the work presented by candidates in the written examinations. This is in addition to the some 2,000 examiners required to mark the exams.
The examinations run until Thursday, June 19, for Junior Certificate subjects and Friday, June 20, for Leaving Certificate subjects. The written examinations in the Leaving Certificate Applied programme finish on Thursday, June 12.
The results of the Leaving Certificate examinations will be available on Wednesday, August 13. Results of the Junior Certificate will be available in mid-September.