Leaving Cert Economics 2025

The 2025 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 2025 Higher Level paper?
  • Q1 cost benefit analysis, macroeconomics
  • Q2 household savings, consumption
  • Q3 international trade, trade protectionism
  • Q4 inflation, consumer price index
  • Q5 positive economics, normative economics
  • Q6 price floor, labour market, minimum wage
  • Q7 income elasticity of demand, merit goods
  • Q8 environmental sustainability, market failure
  • Q9 oligopoly, kinked demand curve
  • Q10 economic cycle, recession
  • Q11 market concentration, monopoly, mixed economy · 75 marks
  • Q12 government debt, taxation, multiplier effect · 75 marks
  • Q13 exports, comparative advantage, foreign aid · 75 marks
  • Q14 demand and supply, price elasticity of demand, gig economy · 75 marks
  • Q15 banking, property market, government expenditure · 75 marks
  • Q16 costs of production, economies of scale, entrepreneurship · 75 marks

Ordinary Level

Exam PaperMarking Scheme
What's in the 2025 Ordinary Level paper?
  • Q1 cso, electricity prices, consumer benefit · 12 marks
  • Q2 scarce resources, government budget surplus · 12 marks
  • Q3 private benefit, social benefit, sporting events · 12 marks
  • Q4 taxation, opportunity cost, budget 2025 · 12 marks
  • Q5 gdp, economic growth · 12 marks
  • Q6 private cost, social cost, externalities · 12 marks
  • Q7 population, percentage change, ageing population · 12 marks
  • Q8 monopoly, barriers to entry · 12 marks
  • Q9 substitutes, complements, demand · 12 marks
  • Q10 demand, supply, price inelasticity · 12 marks
  • Q11 perfect competition, dublin airport, passenger cap · 75 marks
  • Q12 government expenditure, national income, multiplier, ecb · 75 marks
  • Q13 labour, costs of production, multinational companies · 75 marks
  • Q14 customs duties, imports, eu membership, overseas development assistance, hdi · 75 marks
  • Q15 entrepreneurship, demand and supply, government debt · 75 marks
  • Q16 indirect taxation, inflation, climate change, balanced regional development · 75 marks
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