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Junior Cycle Engineering: Design process & planning

How often Design process & planning comes up on the Engineering papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

CL Asked on 2 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026.

Design process & planning, Common Level(7 marks)

Quick ones on Design process & planning.

(a)What is a Gantt chart used for in an engineering project?
  1. Recording the test results of a prototype
  2. Planning the order and timing of tasks
  3. Showing how a circuit is wired
(b)Which order of design stages is correct?
  1. Ideas, make, working drawings, research, test
  2. Make, test, research, ideas, working drawings
  3. Research, ideas, working drawings, make, test
(c)Why is a prototype made before a product goes into production?
  1. To test and improve the design cheaply
  2. To replace the need for any drawings
  3. To sell to customers as the final model
Show the answers

(a) Planning the order and timing of tasks

(b) Research, ideas, working drawings, make, test

(c) To test and improve the design cheaply

Your turn: Common Level questions on Design process & planning.

Common Level

Asked on 2 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026.

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2026Q4a
2025Q1e
2024Not asked
2023Not asked
2022Not asked

Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.

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