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Junior Cycle Geography: Life chances of young people

How often Life chances of young people comes up on the Geography papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

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

Life chances of young people, Common Level(7 marks)

Quick ones on Life chances of young people.

(a)Which most improves a young person's life chances in a developing country?
  1. Leaving school early for work
  2. Free primary schooling
  3. Marrying at the age of 14
(b)Why do girls in some developing countries miss more school than boys?
  1. All girls go to work in factories abroad
  2. Schools there are only open to girls
  3. Kept home for chores or early marriage
(c)Clean drinking water improves young people's life chances mainly by?
  1. Cutting diseases like cholera
  2. Raising the price of food
  3. Making school fees much cheaper
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(a) Free primary schooling

(b) Kept home for chores or early marriage

(c) Cutting diseases like cholera

Your turn: Common Level questions on Life chances of young people.

Common Level

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

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2026Q6C
2025Q4B
2024Q9B
2023Q3A
2022Q4C

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

More Life chances of young people questions

Life chances of young people, 3 marks

Which would MOST improve health care for children in a poor rural area?

  1. A private hospital in the capital
  2. Fewer trained nurses and doctors
  3. Local clinics giving vaccines
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Local clinics giving vaccines

Local clinics bring vaccines, care for mothers and treatment for malaria and diarrhoea within reach. A distant private hospital helps few poor rural families.

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