Leaving Cert Geography 2025

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

Higher Level

Part 1 Part 2 Marking Scheme

What's in the 2025 Higher Level paper?

Q1 ordnance survey maps, rocks, isostasy · 80 marks
Q1 tectonic cycle, plate boundaries · 8 marks
Q2 tectonic cycle, surface processes, weathering · 80 marks
Q2 ordnance survey maps, glaciation, drainage patterns · 8 marks
Q3 coastal landforms, rock cycle, folding and faulting · 80 marks
Q3 karst, weathering, rocks · 8 marks
Q4 regional geography, map skills, primary economic activity, european union · 80 marks
Q4 rocks, rock cycle · 8 marks
Q5 mass movement · 8 marks
Q5 european union, migration, tertiary economic activity, concept of a region · 80 marks
Q6 coastal employment, secondary economic activity, urban development · 80 marks
Q6 regional geography, concept of a region · 8 marks
Q7 ordnance survey maps, multinational companies, colonialism · 80 marks
Q7 ordnance survey maps, map skills · 8 marks
Q8 electricity generation, graphical interpretation, tertiary economic activity, european union · 80 marks
Q8 aerial photographs, ordnance survey maps, map skills · 8 marks
Q9 human development index, graphs, economic development, renewable energy · 80 marks
Q9 aerial photographs, map skills · 8 marks
Q10 weather, atmosphere · 8 marks
Q10 aerial photographs, urban planning, migration · 80 marks
Q11 graphical interpretation, population, culture and identity · 8 marks
Q11 population, population pyramid, central place theory, dynamics of population · 80 marks
Q12 heritage, graphs, settlement, urban expansion · 80 marks
Q12 graphical interpretation, economic activities · 8 marks
Q13 global interdependence, refugees, migration, human rights · 80 marks
Q14 global interdependence, economic development, national debt, gender · 80 marks
Q15 global interdependence, sustainable development · 80 marks
Q16 geoecology, soil, soil processes · 80 marks
Q17 geoecology, soil, soil development · 80 marks
Q18 geoecology, biomes, human activity · 80 marks
Q19 culture and identity, religion · 80 marks
Q20 culture and identity, nation states, cultural groups · 80 marks
Q21 culture and identity, european region · 80 marks
Q22 atmosphere-ocean environment, depressions, anticyclones, weather · 80 marks
Q23 atmosphere-ocean environment, measurement, weather · 80 marks
Q24 atmosphere-ocean environment, climate, economic development · 80 marks