The Leaving Certificate begins in a few days.
But for our Work & Technology Correspondent, Brian O'Donovan, it has been 24 years.
Yet he still vividly remembers hand pain and ink stained fingers after completing English Paper 1 on day one of his exams.
For our Leaving Cert and Me series, we asked Brian O'Donovan what he remembers from sitting his exams in 1999 and what advice he would now give his younger self.
This series can be viewed in full on the @rtenews TikTok account.
