Mock Examinations 2026
Delivering a seamless mock exam cycle in your school
Mock exam papers will be available to view online from mid-November. Please register here to view the papers as they become available.
If you are a new Mock Exam Secretary in your school or teachers have left, please notify us at info@examcraft.ie.
As always, if you need any support or have any questions, please contact our Customer Success team, who will be happy to assist you.
Second paper in 12 subjects
In recent years, we made the decision to invest in publishing additional mock exam papers. Having two papers significantly reduces the chance a student will have seen the paper they sit.
Schools can choose from two paper options for the following subjects: Maths, English, Irish, French, History, Geography and Business Studies at Junior Cycle and Maths, English, Irish and Biology at Leaving Cert.
Mock Exam start date
from the third week in January
We set a mock exam start date each year. This year, schools are asked to schedule their mock exam timetable from the third week in January.
Having an agreed start date means all schools sit their mock exams within a three-week window. This along with additional LC papers limits the potential of social sharing of exams.
Special Offer | Free Mock Revision Courses for Your Students
If your school orders 80% or more of its papers from Examcraft by January 9th, 2026 your students will have free access to:
On ordering, simply confirm that your papers make up 80% or more of your school’s order, and you’ll receive a code to share with your students.
Examcraft’s Delivery Commitment to Schools
We are proud of our tradition of early delivery of papers, well in advance of the mock exams.
However, in recent years, actual delivery times seem to have increased due to online shopping and more disruptive weather events. To eliminate any stress caused by delayed deliveries, we are introducing further delivery commitments to get your papers to you well in advance of your exam start date.
From November 14th
Papers available to review online.
Order by December 19th
Papers dispatched by the week of January 12th.
Order by November 28th
Option of receiving papers before Christmas.
Orders after January 5th, 2026
Dispatched within 7–10 working days.
Junior Cycle Online Corrections
We are committed to the process of continuous improvement, with the overall aim of delivering a mock exam cycle that prepares your students for their exams. Two areas for improvement that are regularly highlighted by you, our customer, are higher-quality corrections and a faster turnaround of papers.
We believe the only way to achieve this is through an online process that facilitates autochecks on correction quality and eliminates the need for papers to be sent to correctors and back to Examcraft to be delivered to schools.
Online corrections offer schools far more benefits than the paper-based process of marking scripts, including:
Improved quality of corrections, with built-in autochecks that ensure correctors are marking to an agreed standard.
Significantly reducing the time frame for students receiving their results.
Eliminating any potential for papers being lost in transit, while reducing your school's carbon footprint.
Giving teachers an overview of their class results and students’ scripts, with the added benefit of having this information to hand in a matter of seconds.
Supporting student progress: scripts can be shared in class on screen, allowing teachers to provide individual and whole-class feedback to move learning forward.
Teacher dashboards allow teachers to accurately analyse students' results across each question, with improved reporting and capabilities to compare class averages per question and paper.
NEW FOR 2026
Comprehensive Student Feedback
For the first time, students will receive a detailed visual report on their progress in each subject, broken down question by question. Model answers will also be available online, making the mock exam a truly formative assessment that clearly shows students their next steps in learning.
Let’s check each question with an ideal answer
to get a better understanding
Topic wise performance analysis
(Junior Cycle Maths)
Benefits of Online Corrections
The Online Corrections Process
Once teachers and students are registered for online corrections, the system and process is designed to make life easier for the mock exam secretary. Exam paper envelopes will be sent to Examcraft, as always, where they will be scanned and uploaded online.
The papers are corrected online and when they are marked, mock exam secretaries and teachers will be notified by email to view the scripts and approve the student's results. Once approved, students will be able to view their scripts and the marks received for each question.
Contact our customer service team to discuss your options
Next steps
We have created guides to help you with registering your students and teachers for online corrections.
Select your school position below, and you will be asked to log in to access the online correction support guides.
