Leaving Cert Business 2020

The 2020 Leaving Cert Business 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 2020 Higher Level paper?
  • Q1 entrepreneurship, management skills, human resources · 80 marks
  • Q2 business relationships, consumer protection, industrial relations · 60 marks
  • Q3 environmental responsibility, multinationals, government policy · 60 marks
  • Q4 balance of payments, eu membership, international trade · 60 marks
  • Q5 planning, organisational structure, intrapreneurship · 60 marks
  • Q6 business expansion, market research, business finance · 60 marks
  • Q7 niche market, business finance, employee empowerment, insurance · 60 marks
  • Q8 branding, marketing mix, business ownership · 60 marks
  • Q9 pricing, business abbreviations, taxation, insurance · 80 marks

Ordinary Level

Exam PaperMarking Scheme
What's in the 2020 Ordinary Level paper?
  • Q1 abbreviations, business terms · 10 marks
  • Q2 production methods · 10 marks
  • Q3 entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship · 10 marks
  • Q4 european union, eu institutions · 10 marks
  • Q5 market research, desk research, field research · 10 marks
  • Q6 inflation, interest rates, taxation, exchange rates · 10 marks
  • Q7 pricing strategies, marketing · 10 marks
  • Q8 business expansion, takeover, merger · 10 marks
  • Q9 barriers to trade, international trade, tariff, quota · 10 marks
  • Q10 teams, team formation · 10 marks
  • Q11 taxation, net pay, household finance · 10 marks
  • Q12 business planning, organisation structures, mission statement · 10 marks
  • Q13 state agencies · 10 marks
  • Q14 product development, new product development · 10 marks
  • Q15 business law, contract law · 10 marks
  • Q16 consumer law, unfair dismissal, trade unions, consumer agencies · 75 marks
  • Q17 economic sectors, factors of production, environmental responsibility, social responsibility · 75 marks
  • Q18 international trade, balance of trade, exports, imports · 75 marks
  • Q19 enterprise, leadership, quality control, communication · 75 marks
  • Q20 insurance, cash flow, taxation, bank loans · 75 marks
  • Q21 recruitment, teamwork, rewards, human resource management · 75 marks
  • Q22 branding, target market, advertising, sales promotion · 75 marks
  • Q23 business planning, business expansion, sources of finance, market research · 75 marks
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