Junior Cert Business Studies 2026

The 2026 Junior Cert Business Studies exam papers and official marking scheme, free below as direct PDF links from the State Examinations Commission archive.

Common Level

Exam PaperMarking Scheme
What's in the 2026 Common Level paper?
  • Q1 household budgets, income and expenditure · 6 marks
  • Q2 business documents · 6 marks
  • Q3 marketing · 6 marks
  • Q4 insurance · 6 marks
  • Q5 borrowing · 6 marks
  • Q6 globalisation, sustainability · 6 marks
  • Q7 business organisations, entrepreneurship · 6 marks
  • Q8 economic indicators · 6 marks
  • Q9 economic concepts, government and taxation · 6 marks
  • Q10 double entry bookkeeping · 6 marks
  • Q11 government and taxation · 6 marks
  • Q12 marketing · 6 marks
  • Q13 employment · 6 marks
  • Q14 needs and wants, income and expenditure · 6 marks
  • Q15 social and economic issues · 6 marks
  • Q16 sustainability, european union, economic concepts, government and taxation · 60 marks
  • Q17 entrepreneurship, technology in business, final accounts · 60 marks
  • Q18 household budgets, wages and deductions, trade unions, consumer rights · 60 marks

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