Leaving Cert Applied Maths 2024

The 2024 Leaving Cert Applied Maths exam paper and official marking scheme, free below as direct PDF links from the State Examinations Commission archive.

Higher Level

Exam PaperMarking Scheme
What's in the 2024 Higher Level paper?
  • Q1 matrices, graph theory, minimum spanning tree, kinematics · 50 marks
  • Q2 friction, inclined plane, pulleys, newton's laws · 50 marks
  • Q3 integration by parts, oblique collisions, coefficient of restitution · 50 marks
  • Q4 circular motion, energy conservation, differential equations, air resistance · 50 marks
  • Q5 direct collisions, coefficient of restitution, kinematics, uniform acceleration · 50 marks
  • Q6 difference equations, first-order recurrence, differential equations, separable equations · 50 marks
  • Q7 projectiles, circular motion, friction · 50 marks
  • Q8 dynamic programming, bellman's principle, dimensional analysis · 50 marks
  • Q9 second-order difference equations, homogeneous recurrence, inhomogeneous recurrence · 50 marks
  • Q10 scheduling networks, critical path analysis, differential equations, exponential decay · 50 marks

Ordinary Level

Exam PaperMarking Scheme
What's in the 2024 Ordinary Level paper?
  • Q1 kinematics, uniform acceleration, velocity-time graph, average speed · 50 marks
  • Q2 vectors, dot product, dimensional analysis · 50 marks
  • Q3 geometric sequences, difference equations, circular motion · 50 marks
  • Q4 projectiles, kinematics, projectile motion · 50 marks
  • Q5 adjacency matrix, graph theory, dynamic programming, bellman's principle · 50 marks
  • Q6 minimum spanning tree, kruskal's algorithm, prim's algorithm, dijkstra's algorithm · 50 marks
  • Q7 direct collisions, coefficient of restitution, kinetic energy, impulse · 50 marks
  • Q8 friction, newton's laws, pulleys, connected particles · 50 marks
  • Q9 scheduling networks, critical path analysis, activity dependencies · 50 marks
  • Q10 second-order difference equations, characteristic equation, compound interest, first-order recurrence · 50 marks
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