Leaving Cert Economics 2024

The 2024 Leaving Cert Economics 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 balance of payments, current account, international trade · 12 marks
  • Q2 full employment, economic aims, unemployment · 12 marks
  • Q3 price ceiling, government intervention, market equilibrium · 12 marks
  • Q4 capital widening, capital deepening, demand for labour, marginal efficiency of capital · 12 marks
  • Q5 shortage, perfectly inelastic supply, excess demand · 12 marks
  • Q6 average cost, marginal cost, diminishing returns · 12 marks
  • Q7 market failure, demerit goods, government intervention · 12 marks
  • Q8 price discrimination, consumer characteristics · 12 marks
  • Q9 opportunity cost, positive externality, social benefit · 12 marks
  • Q10 national income, gdp, gnp, net factor income from abroad · 12 marks
  • Q11 circular flow of income, multiplier, national income statistics, market equilibrium · 75 marks
  • Q12 canons of taxation, hidden economy, inflation, consumer price index · 75 marks
  • Q13 population, net migration, globalisation, corporation tax, budget surplus · 75 marks
  • Q14 monopolistic competition, interest rates, real rate of interest, neobanks · 75 marks
  • Q15 less developed countries, financial aid, competitiveness, exchange rates, european union · 75 marks
  • Q16 homelessness, social housing, income elasticity of demand, capital expenditure, indirect taxation · 75 marks

Ordinary Level

Exam PaperMarking Scheme
What's in the 2024 Ordinary Level paper?
  • Q1 sustainable development, natural resources, environment · 12 marks
  • Q2 competition, non-price competition, market structures · 12 marks
  • Q3 monopolistic competition, advertising, market failure · 12 marks
  • Q4 saving, financial institutions, personal finance · 12 marks
  • Q5 international trade, imports and exports, balance of payments · 12 marks
  • Q6 deposit return scheme, recycling, environment · 12 marks
  • Q7 positive and normative economics, economic statements · 12 marks
  • Q8 income inequality, gini coefficient, income distribution · 12 marks
  • Q9 national income, gdp, gni · 12 marks
  • Q10 demand and supply, market equilibrium, shifts in demand · 12 marks
  • Q11 oligopoly, energy market, government intervention · 75 marks
  • Q12 employment, scarcity, unemployment, labour · 75 marks
  • Q13 costs of production, inflation, cost-push inflation · 75 marks
  • Q14 government expenditure, taxation, vat, balance of trade · 75 marks
  • Q15 factors of production, demand and supply, price elasticity of demand · 75 marks
  • Q16 population, corporation tax, housing market, ageing population · 75 marks
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