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Junior Cycle Graphics: Perspective drawing
How often Perspective drawing comes up on the Graphics papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.
CL Asked on 4 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026. most years
Perspective drawing, Common Level(7 marks)
Quick ones on Perspective drawing.
(a)In perspective drawing, what does the horizon line stand for?
- The ground under the object
- The viewer's eye level
- The top edge of the object
(b)In two-point perspective, how are the vertical edges of an object drawn?
- At 30° to the horizon
- Towards a vanishing point
- Vertical and parallel
(c)In perspective, where do parallel horizontal edges running away from you meet?
- At a vanishing point
- They never meet
- At the nearest corner
Show the answers
(a) The viewer's eye level
(b) Vertical and parallel
(c) At a vanishing point
Common Level
Asked on 4 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026. most years
Every paper, year by year
| Year | Where it came up |
|---|---|
| 2026 | Q2d |
| 2025 | Q4e |
| 2024 | Q5e |
| 2023 | Q4c |
| 2022 | Not asked |
Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.
Other Graphics topics
- Angles, triangles & polygons
- Auxiliary views & true shape
- Dividing a line into equal parts
- Drawing conventions & dimensions
- Ellipse
- Freehand pictorial sketching
- Freehand sketching of views
- Orthographic projection
- Parabola
- Rendering & presentation
- Spatial reasoning & visualising
- Surface development
- Tangents & circles in contact
- True length & indexing
- Bisectors & centre of a circle
- Circle terms & properties
- Measurement, scales & area
- Sections & truncated solids
- Similar figures & enlargement
- Axonometric projection
- Solids & their properties
- Transformations & symmetry
- Isometric & oblique drawing
- Solids of revolution