Irish CAO Points Calculator

Work out your Leaving Certificate points in seconds, then find out what that
number would have reached.

This app does the two things most points calculators get wrong.
The maths bonus is applied to your maths result before your best six are
chosen, which is how it actually works and which changes the answer more often
than you would think. And your total is not left sitting there on its own: the
app tells you how many courses that number reached in the last round of offers.

WORK OUT YOUR POINTS
Higher, ordinary and foundation level. The LCVP Link Modules. The 25 point
maths bonus, applied in the right place, with a plain line telling you whether
it counted for you and what it was worth. Add up to nine subjects and the best
six are picked for you.

NARROW IT DOWN TO WHAT YOU WANT
Nine hundred courses is not an answer. Pick the subject areas you are interested
in, the level, and the colleges you would actually go to, and see what is left,
grouped by how your total sits against what each course has taken: comfortable,
close, or further off for now. Nothing is predicted and no percentage is
invented. Every band describes years that already happened.

SEE WHAT IT REACHES
Every course whose published entry points your total meets, and the ones you
came within twenty points of. Filter by honours or ordinary level, or search by
course and college.

FIND A SUBJECT, NOT A COURSE CODE
General Nursing is one page, not twenty. Open a subject and see every college
that teaches it, side by side, with what each one took and which way it has
been moving.

SIX YEARS OF FIGURES
Every course carries its record from 2020 to 2025. One year is a data point.
Six is a shape, and the shape is what answers "what points do I need". The most recent
year is free on every course.

HOW POINTS MOVED
How many courses got harder and how many got easier, and which ones moved the
most in each direction.

KEEP A SHORTLIST, IN YOUR OWN ORDER
Keep the courses you are thinking about and put them in the order you actually
want them. Nothing reorders the list for you: under the CAO system a course
lower on your form can never cost you one higher up, so genuine order of
preference is already the best anyone can do, and a tool that sorted it for you
would be implying a tactic that does not exist.

NEVER MISS A DEADLINE
Every CAO date with the exact time it falls at, because the change of mind
facility closes at five in the afternoon and people miss it by hours rather
than by days. Turn on reminders and get one a week before and again the day
before. They are scheduled on your phone, so nothing is sent anywhere.

NO ACCOUNT, NOTHING TO SIGN UP FOR
Your grades, your shortlist and your reminders are stored on your device and are
deleted with the app. Nobody else can see them.

NOTHING IS INVENTED
Every entry point shown is a figure that was published for that year. Nothing
is estimated, averaged into existence or predicted. Where a course has no
published figure, the app says so rather than filling the gap. Scores that
include a portfolio, an audition or an entrance test are marked and kept out of
every range, because they are not on the points scale.

NO ADVERTISING
There are no ads. Nothing follows you between apps and nothing about you is
sold.

FREE, AND STAYING FREE
The points calculator, your full total, every subject line, the maths bonus and
what it was worth to you, the appeals calculator and every CAO date. None of
that is capped, counted or blurred, and none of it ever will be.

ONE PAYMENT FOR THE REST
The first courses in every band are shown in full, and so is the most recent
year for any course. One payment opens the whole list, and every year of
figures the app holds. It is a single purchase, not a subscription, it does not
renew, and it restores on any device signed in to the same store account.

This is an independent app. It is not affiliated with the
Central Applications Office. For applications and official information, go to
cao.ie.