In the Dark

As I have already mentioned on this blog, examinations for the 2025 school Leaving Certificate are under way. One of the interesting things about the Irish system is that the examination papers are put up online immediately after the examinations so it’s very easy to share the content. I have already posted the two Mathematics papers for 2025. This year’s Physics examinations (at Ordinary and Higher level) took place this morning, so I thought I’d share the papers here. In particular, readers in the UK might be interested to compare the standard of these papers with that of current A-levels in Physics.

One thing I should mention is that Leaving Certificate Physics is not a prerequisite for entry into any of our Physics programmes at Maynooth University. Some do have it, but many don’t. We teach the first-year material from scratch for all students. Anyway, here are this years papers, Ordinary and Higher respectively. As usual comments are welcome, through the box below:

I think the Ordinary level paper could have done with better proof-reading. As well as Jim’s comment below, there is

Explain how your calculations can be used to verify the principle of conversation of
momentum.

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