Leaving Cert Geography 2025

The 2025 Leaving Cert Geography 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 tectonic cycle, plate boundaries · 8 marks
  • Q1 ordnance survey maps, rocks, isostasy · 80 marks
  • Q2 ordnance survey maps, glaciation, drainage patterns · 8 marks
  • Q2 tectonic cycle, surface processes, weathering · 80 marks
  • Q3 karst, weathering, rocks · 8 marks
  • Q3 coastal landforms, rock cycle, folding and faulting · 80 marks
  • Q4 rocks, rock cycle · 8 marks
  • Q4 regional geography, map skills, primary economic activity, european union · 80 marks
  • Q5 european union, migration, tertiary economic activity, concept of a region · 80 marks
  • Q5 mass movement · 8 marks
  • Q6 regional geography, concept of a region · 8 marks
  • Q6 coastal employment, secondary economic activity, urban development · 80 marks
  • Q7 ordnance survey maps, map skills · 8 marks
  • Q7 ordnance survey maps, multinational companies, colonialism · 80 marks
  • Q8 aerial photographs, ordnance survey maps, map skills · 8 marks
  • Q8 electricity generation, graphical interpretation, tertiary economic activity, european union · 80 marks
  • Q9 aerial photographs, map skills · 8 marks
  • Q9 human development index, graphs, economic development, renewable energy · 80 marks
  • Q10 aerial photographs, urban planning, migration · 80 marks
  • Q10 weather, atmosphere · 8 marks
  • Q11 population, population pyramid, central place theory, dynamics of population · 80 marks
  • Q11 graphical interpretation, population, culture and identity · 8 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

Ordinary Level

Exam PaperMarking Scheme
What's in the 2025 Ordinary Level paper?
  • Q1 ordnance survey, landforms, rock cycle · 100 marks
  • Q1 plate tectonics, earth structure · 10 marks
  • Q2 karst landscape, chemical weathering · 10 marks
  • Q2 volcanoes, rocks, surface processes · 100 marks
  • Q3 surface processes, weathering, plate tectonics · 100 marks
  • Q3 surface processes, landforms · 10 marks
  • Q4 rocks, rock classification · 10 marks
  • Q4 regional geography, economic activity, culture · 100 marks
  • Q5 map skills, ordnance survey · 10 marks
  • Q5 agriculture, economic activities, regional problems · 100 marks
  • Q6 employment, primary economic activity, urban regions · 100 marks
  • Q6 ordnance survey, map skills · 10 marks
  • Q7 aerial photograph, land use · 10 marks
  • Q7 aerial photograph, environmental pollution, economic development · 100 marks
  • Q8 regions, regional geography · 10 marks
  • Q8 employment, ordnance survey, colonialism · 100 marks
  • Q9 irish economy, multinational companies, european union · 100 marks
  • Q9 european union, political geography · 10 marks
  • Q10 aerial photograph, migration, traffic congestion · 100 marks
  • Q10 weather, synoptic charts · 10 marks
  • Q11 population, developing world, population dynamics · 100 marks
  • Q11 graphical interpretation, employment · 10 marks
  • Q12 urbanisation, settlement patterns, urban land-use · 100 marks
  • Q12 satellite interpretation, volcanoes · 10 marks
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