Sixth Year · Leaving Certificate

Past examination papers

The official papers, held here in Alder. No other website, nothing to go missing.

These are the Leaving Certificate Mathematics examination papers, written and published by the State Examinations Commission. Alder did not write them and has not changed a word of them.

They are stored inside the app itself, so they open straight from here and cannot stop working because somebody else’s website changed.

Writing a full paper under the clock is worth more than any amount of revising. When you have finished one, bring your working to the AI Teacher in the Sixth Year book and it will mark it with you, a part at a time.

2025 read by Alder

The most recent papers, read part by part by Alder. The deferred sitting carries the SEC’s “K” code this year rather than the “C” used in 2022 and 2023 — a different label for the same thing, and a separate examination either way.

Higher Level, Paper 1Examination paperOpen › Higher Level, Paper 2Examination paperOpen › Ordinary Level, Paper 1Examination paperOpen › Ordinary Level, Paper 2Examination paperOpen › Foundation LevelExamination paperOpen › Higher Level — marking schemeOfficial marking schemeOpen › Ordinary Level — marking schemeOfficial marking schemeOpen › Foundation Level — marking schemeOfficial marking schemeOpen › Higher Level, Paper 1 — deferred sittingDeferred examinationOpen › Higher Level, Paper 2 — deferred sittingDeferred examinationOpen › Ordinary Level, Paper 1 — deferred sittingDeferred examinationOpen › Ordinary Level, Paper 2 — deferred sittingDeferred examinationOpen › Higher Level — deferred marking schemeOfficial marking schemeOpen › Ordinary Level — deferred marking schemeOfficial marking schemeOpen ›

2024 read by Alder

Read part by part by Alder. The deferred sittings are separate papers, not repeats, and are listed as such. The marking schemes are the examiner’s own — the only place that tells you exactly where the marks went.

2023 read by Alder

The main sitting has been read part by part by Alder. The deferred papers below carry no year on their covers — they are placed here because the 2023 deferred marking scheme came with them, which is an inference rather than a certainty, so nothing in the app cites them as evidence.

Higher Level, Paper 1Examination paperOpen › Higher Level, Paper 2Examination paperOpen › Ordinary Level, Paper 1Examination paperOpen › Ordinary Level, Paper 2Examination paperOpen › Foundation LevelExamination paperOpen › Higher Level — marking schemeOfficial marking schemeOpen › Ordinary Level — marking schemeOfficial marking schemeOpen › Foundation Level — marking schemeOfficial marking schemeOpen › Higher Level, Paper 1 — deferred sittingDeferred · undated coverOpen › Higher Level, Paper 2 — deferred sittingDeferred · undated coverOpen › Ordinary Level, Paper 1 — deferred sittingDeferred · undated coverOpen › Ordinary Level, Paper 2 — deferred sittingDeferred · undated coverOpen › Ordinary Level — deferred marking schemeOfficial marking schemeOpen ›

2022 read by Alder

The main sitting has been read part by part by Alder. The deferred papers carry the SEC’s “C” code on the cover and are worth 220 marks rather than 300 — they are a different examination, not a reprint.

Higher Level, Paper 1Examination paperOpen › Higher Level, Paper 2Examination paperOpen › Ordinary Level, Paper 1Examination paperOpen › Ordinary Level, Paper 2Examination paperOpen › Foundation LevelExamination paperOpen › Higher Level — marking schemeOfficial marking schemeOpen › Ordinary Level — marking schemeOfficial marking schemeOpen › Foundation Level — marking schemeOfficial marking schemeOpen › Higher Level, Paper 1 — deferred sittingDeferred · 220 marksOpen › Higher Level, Paper 2 — deferred sittingDeferred · 220 marksOpen › Ordinary Level, Paper 1 — deferred sittingDeferred · 220 marksOpen › Ordinary Level, Paper 2 — deferred sittingDeferred · 220 marksOpen › Higher Level — deferred marking schemeOfficial marking schemeOpen › Ordinary Level — deferred marking schemeOfficial marking schemeOpen ›

2021 read by Alder

The Covid sitting: 220 marks rather than 300, and candidates chose four of six questions in Section A and two of four in Section B. Alder has read it, but counts elsewhere in the app are stated over the standard papers and this year is named separately, because comparing it with a full paper would be comparing two different examinations.

Higher Level, Paper 1Adjusted paper · 220 marksOpen › Higher Level, Paper 2Adjusted paper · 220 marksOpen › Ordinary Level, Paper 1Adjusted paper · 220 marksOpen › Ordinary Level, Paper 2Adjusted paper · 220 marksOpen › Foundation LevelAdjusted paper · 230 marksOpen › Higher Level — marking schemeOfficial marking schemeOpen › Ordinary Level — marking schemeOfficial marking schemeOpen › Foundation Level — marking schemeOfficial marking schemeOpen ›

2020 read by Alder

A full 300-mark paper with the standard structure, despite 2020 being the year of calculated grades. Read part by part by Alder and counted with the other standard years.

Junior Cycle 2022–2025 read by Alder

The Third Year course. One paper per level at 270 marks. Alder has read all four question by question, and they are what the Third Year question types are counted against.

Junior Certificate 2019 read by Alder

The examination BEFORE the Junior Cycle: two papers per level at 300 marks each, not one at 270. Same subject, different examination, so it is read and cited but deliberately kept out of the counts — comparing it with a Junior Cycle paper would be comparing two different things.

Higher Level, Paper 1Junior Certificate · 300 marksOpen › Higher Level, Paper 2Junior Certificate · 300 marksOpen › Ordinary Level, Paper 1Junior Certificate · 300 marksOpen › Ordinary Level, Paper 2Junior Certificate · 300 marksOpen › Foundation LevelJunior CertificateOpen › Higher — marking schemeOfficial marking schemeOpen › Ordinary — marking schemeOfficial marking schemeOpen › Foundation — marking schemeOfficial marking schemeOpen ›