Leaving Cert Business 2025

The 2025 Leaving Cert Business exam papers and official marking scheme, free below as direct PDF links from the State Examinations Commission archive.

Higher Level

What's in the 2025 Higher Level paper?
  • Q1 applied business question, entrepreneurship, management control, human resource management · 80 marks
  • Q2 contract law, industrial action, discrimination, people in business · 60 marks
  • Q3 business organisations, employment, business environment, domestic environment · 60 marks
  • Q4 european union, global marketing mix, barriers to trade, international environment · 60 marks
  • Q5 contract termination, unfair dismissal, competitive relationships, people in business · 60 marks
  • Q6 communication, swot analysis, mcgregor theory x, managing · 60 marks
  • Q7 insurance, managing change, household and business taxation, managing · 60 marks
  • Q8 acquisition, product development, medium-term finance, business in action · 60 marks
  • Q9 product portfolio, market segmentation, market research, breakeven analysis · 60 marks

Paper 1

  • Q10 european union, financial ratios, business terminology, taxation · 80 marks

Ordinary Level

What's in the 2025 Ordinary Level paper?
  • Q1 abbreviations, business terms · 10 marks
  • Q1 consumer law, consumer protection, redress, ccpc · 75 marks
  • Q2 environmental responsibility, economic sectors, taxation · 75 marks
  • Q2 factors of production, enterprise · 10 marks
  • Q3 multinationals, european union, inflation, eu institutions · 75 marks
  • Q3 motivation, maslow, mcgregor · 10 marks
  • Q4 break-even analysis, costs · 10 marks
  • Q4 industrial relations, industrial action, contract law, employment equality · 75 marks
  • Q5 teamwork, organisation · 10 marks
  • Q5 entrepreneurship, sources of ideas, social media, stock control · 75 marks
  • Q6 production methods · 10 marks
  • Q6 meetings, club officers, agenda, cash flow forecast · 75 marks
  • Q7 training, rewards, recruitment, net pay · 75 marks
  • Q7 marketing, sales promotion, sponsorship · 10 marks
  • Q8 stakeholders, business relationships · 10 marks
  • Q8 branding, pricing, target market, market research · 75 marks
  • Q9 organisation structures, matrix structure · 10 marks
  • Q9 business expansion, swot analysis, enterprise support, insurance · 75 marks
  • Q10 cash flow forecast, household finance · 10 marks
  • Q11 business planning, plans · 10 marks
  • Q12 sources of finance, household finance · 10 marks
  • Q13 franchising, business expansion · 10 marks
  • Q14 international trade, exports · 10 marks
  • Q15 economic terms, inflation, taxation · 10 marks

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