Best Websites and Apps for Leaving Cert Revision

The material you revise from is published free by State bodies. The exam papers and marking schemes come from the State Examinations Commission. The course specifications come from the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, and the exam logistics are written up on Citizens Information. Paid study sites sit on top of that and sell you the sorting, the notes and the videos around it. This post lists what exists in each layer, free things first, with the prices each site publishes.

All prices below were checked on Friday 7 August 2026. Study sites change their fees, so open the linked page before you pay. One of the tools listed here is ours, and that section says so.

The three official sites

examinations.ie holds every past paper and every marking scheme in its Exam Material Archive. Exam papers run from 1995 to 2026 and marking schemes from 2001. Nothing there costs money and no account is needed. We wrote up the archive, its filename codes and the years it skips in where to get Leaving Cert past papers for free.

curriculumonline.ie is the NCCA site that publishes the actual course for each subject. The Leaving Certificate Geography page carries the syllabus PDF, the guidelines for teachers, and the new specification being introduced for fifth years from September 2026. Reading the syllabus for your own subject tells you what is examinable, which no revision site can overrule.

citizensinformation.ie covers the logistics. Its Leaving Certificate page, edited on 28 May 2026, gives the grade bands, the bonus marks for answering in Irish, and the fee. In 2026 there is "an examination fee of €116 for each school-based Leaving Certificate candidate". The same page states that results are expected in late August 2026.

Free study material

RTÉ Learn publishes Study Hub, which is "part of Today with David McCullagh on RTÉ Radio 1". Each subject gets its own article with exam tips and revision notes. The series is "available in full as a Podcast, and a selection of the shows are also on YouTube". The 2026 subject articles were published through May and early June, ahead of the written exams.

Scoilnet is "the Department of Education's official portal for Irish education", managed by Oide Technology in Education. It indexes over 24,000 resources contributed by teachers, and its post-primary section links out to Britannica School and to the RTÉ Study Hub. It is built for teachers first, so most of what you find there is classroom material.

Your school and your library. Ask your own teacher what the department already has on a shared drive. Public library membership is free to join and includes the eLibrary.

The Irish study platforms that charge

These sites solve a real problem. The SEC archive gives you one PDF per paper and leaves the sorting to you. Seeing every past question on one topic together means either grouping them yourself or paying someone who already has.

Studyclix. Anyone can sign up for a free Basic account. Its plan comparison page lists Basic as "3 exam questions on each topic", saved questions, five quiz questions per topic, study advice and subject guides, and community access. A Plus account is listed at "€59.99 until the end of the school year (July 1st)". It gives "All state exam questions and marking schemes by topic in your subjects", along with video solutions and listening comprehension audio. A Premium account is listed at €89.99 to the same July date and adds mock exam questions by topic and the 2026 mock paper. If you already hold Plus, the pricing page states you "can upgrade to Premium for an additional €39.99". Studyclix also sells per-subject Boost courses and school licences.

iRevise. The iRevise home page prices its Student plan at "€ 7 billed monthly" or "€ 35 billed yearly", with a 7 day no-card trial and a 7 day money-back guarantee. That covers past papers, an Exam Creator for building custom papers by question or topic, and teacher-written notes and videos. Teacher plans are listed at €12 monthly and €69 yearly.

Both are Irish companies, and both describe their notes and videos as teacher-made. If the video explanations or the mock questions are what you are short of, that is what the fee buys. The past papers underneath are the same free SEC PDFs in every case, so check which parts of a plan you would actually open.

If you are weighing a subscription against in-person teaching, we put published grind-school and one-to-one rates side by side in how much grinds cost in Ireland.

General AI chatbots

ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini all have free tiers and all handle explanation, rephrasing and quizzing well. They are weaker on the two things this exam turns on, which are the exact contents of past papers and the official marking schemes. A model with no record of a specific question can produce a plausible invented one. We set out where a general chatbot helps and where it fails in can I use ChatGPT to study for the Leaving Cert. That post also covers the SEC's rules on AI in coursework.

What we make

ExamAI is our product, so weigh this section accordingly. The free parts need no account and no card.

The past paper finder takes a plain-language search such as maths 2025 hl lc or biology 2019 ms. It returns the paper or the marking scheme, linked to the file on examinations.ie, and it goes back to 2007 for the Leaving Cert and the Junior Cert. Each subject has a page you can bookmark, such as Leaving Cert maths papers.

For the topic problem described above, we grouped the questions in our corpus, which goes back to 2015, into exam topics. The Leaving Cert biology topic pages show every past question on one topic across those years. Each topic also has a downloadable PDF pack at Higher or Ordinary Level, with or without the marking schemes. Those packs are free.

The paid part is the tutor, at €10 a month or €60 once for a full year. Every account starts with a 7-day free trial and no card is required. It works from the real questions and the official schemes, shows you the source PDF for anything it quotes, and gives hints before full solutions.

Picking between them

Start with the free official sources, because they are the documents the exam is actually built from. Add one paid tool only when you can name what it does that you cannot do yourself. Topic-sorted questions, video solutions and mock questions are real gaps. A second copy of the past papers is not.

Whatever you use, the routine matters more than the platform. Sit a question under time, then mark it against the official scheme, which we set out in how to study with past papers.

FAQ

Are there free alternatives to Studyclix? Yes for the papers themselves. Every Leaving Cert paper and marking scheme is free on examinations.ie, and our topic pages group past questions by topic at no cost. Studyclix's own free Basic account also gives three exam questions on each topic.

How much does Studyclix cost? Its plan page listed Plus at €59.99 and Premium at €89.99 to July 1st when we checked on Friday 7 August 2026. Upgrading from Plus to Premium was listed at €39.99. Check the page for the current year's rates.

How much does iRevise cost? The home page listed a Student plan at €7 billed monthly or €35 billed yearly on Friday 7 August 2026, with a 7 day no-card trial.

Do I have to pay for Leaving Cert past papers? No. The SEC publishes every paper and every marking scheme free.

Where do I find the syllabus for my subject? On curriculumonline.ie, the NCCA site, which holds the syllabus or specification PDF for each senior cycle subject.

How much is the Leaving Cert exam fee? €116 for each school-based candidate in 2026, per Citizens Information. Higher fees apply to external candidates.

Open the past paper finder and pull up a paper in the subject you are worried about. It is free, it needs no account, and the topic packs beside it are free too.