Leaving Cert Home Economics 2018

The 2018 Leaving Cert Home Economics exam papers 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 2018 Higher Level paper?
  • Q1 home design, housing, homelessness, sustainable energy · 80 marks
  • Q1 nutrition, carbohydrates, digestion · 6 marks
  • Q1 nutrition, lipids, weight reducing diet, food labelling · 80 marks
  • Q2 textiles, fashion and design, natural fibres, commercial patterns · 40 marks
  • Q2 vegetarian diets, protein, novel protein foods, food processing · 50 marks
  • Q2 nutrition, vitamins, vitamin c · 6 marks
  • Q3 food additives, food processing, food legislation · 50 marks
  • Q3 nutrition, protein, meat, cookery · 6 marks
  • Q3 social studies, education, volunteering, leisure · 80 marks
  • Q4 nutrition, energy metabolism · 6 marks
  • Q4 home management, technology, refrigeration, energy labelling · 50 marks
  • Q5 family studies, children's rights, conflict resolution, family law · 50 marks
  • Q5 food labelling, consumer studies, coeliac disease · 6 marks
  • Q6 food processing, fortified foods, food science · 6 marks
  • Q7 cookery, heat transfer, food science · 6 marks
  • Q8 microbiology, food safety · 6 marks
  • Q9 textiles, home design, fabric finishes · 6 marks
  • Q10 consumer studies, advertising · 6 marks
  • Q11 consumer studies, household finance, savings · 6 marks
  • Q12 household finance, taxation, consumer studies · 6 marks

Ordinary Level

Exam PaperMarking Scheme
What's in the 2018 Ordinary Level paper?
  • Q1 protein, nutrition, food labelling, online shopping · 80 marks
  • Q1 nutrition, iron, vitamins and minerals · 6 marks
  • Q1 home design and management, water systems, water conservation, housing · 80 marks
  • Q2 nutrition, vitamins and minerals · 6 marks
  • Q2 osteoporosis, calcium, meal planning · 50 marks
  • Q2 textiles fashion and design, school uniforms, fabric finishes, irish clothing industry · 40 marks
  • Q3 cereals, nutritive value, food storage · 50 marks
  • Q3 food choice, consumer studies · 6 marks
  • Q3 social studies, unemployment, women in the workplace, urbanisation · 80 marks
  • Q4 consumer studies, consumer rights, small claims court · 50 marks
  • Q4 nutrition, lipids · 6 marks
  • Q5 family studies, older people, generation conflict · 50 marks
  • Q5 nutrition, sugar, diet related disease · 6 marks
  • Q6 food safety, food hygiene · 6 marks
  • Q7 food preservation · 6 marks
  • Q8 food spoilage, food production, micro-organisms · 6 marks
  • Q9 household budgeting, family resource management · 6 marks
  • Q10 consumer studies, credit · 6 marks
  • Q11 textiles, textile care symbols · 6 marks
  • Q12 technology in the home, home management · 6 marks
💡
Practising a paper?Open a real past question and the ExamAI tutor works through it with you. Free, no account needed.
Try a question
← Home Economics 2017All Home Economics yearsHome Economics 2019 →

Questions come from the official State Examinations Commission papers. Every link opens the original PDF on examinations.ie.