# Junior Cert Business Studies 2026

> The 2026 Junior Cert Business Studies exam papers and official marking scheme for Common level. Questions come from the official State Examinations Commission papers; every PDF link opens the original on examinations.ie.

Canonical: https://examai.ie/past-papers/junior-cert/business-studies/2026

## Common Level

- [Exam Paper](https://www.examinations.ie/archive/exampapers/2026/JC042CLP000EV.pdf)
- [Marking Scheme](https://www.examinations.ie/archive/markingschemes/2026/JC042CLP000EV.pdf)

### What's in the 2026 Common Level paper?

| Question | Topics | Marks |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Q1 | household budgets, income and expenditure | 6 |
| Q2 | business documents | 6 |
| Q3 | marketing | 6 |
| Q4 | insurance | 6 |
| Q5 | borrowing | 6 |
| Q6 | globalisation, sustainability | 6 |
| Q7 | business organisations, entrepreneurship | 6 |
| Q8 | economic indicators | 6 |
| Q9 | economic concepts, government and taxation | 6 |
| Q10 | double entry bookkeeping | 6 |
| Q11 | government and taxation | 6 |
| Q12 | marketing | 6 |
| Q13 | employment | 6 |
| Q14 | needs and wants, income and expenditure | 6 |
| Q15 | social and economic issues | 6 |
| Q16 | sustainability, european union, economic concepts, government and taxation | 60 |
| Q17 | entrepreneurship, technology in business, final accounts | 60 |
| Q18 | household budgets, wages and deductions, trade unions, consumer rights | 60 |

## Revise Business Studies by topic

- [Personal Finance](https://examai.ie/past-papers/junior-cert/business-studies/topic/personal-finance)
- [Consumers & Work](https://examai.ie/past-papers/junior-cert/business-studies/topic/consumers-work)
- [Enterprise & Marketing](https://examai.ie/past-papers/junior-cert/business-studies/topic/enterprise-marketing)
- [Business Accounts](https://examai.ie/past-papers/junior-cert/business-studies/topic/business-accounts)
- [Our Economy](https://examai.ie/past-papers/junior-cert/business-studies/topic/our-economy)
- [Ireland & the Global Economy](https://examai.ie/past-papers/junior-cert/business-studies/topic/ireland-the-global-economy)

## Related

- [Business Studies 2025](https://examai.ie/past-papers/junior-cert/business-studies/2025)
- [All Business Studies years](https://examai.ie/past-papers/junior-cert/business-studies)