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Junior Cycle Graphics: Similar figures & enlargement
How often Similar figures & enlargement 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
Similar figures & enlargement, Common Level(9 marks)
Quick ones on Similar figures & enlargement.
(a)Two figures are similar. Which statement is always true?
- Equal sides, angles in the same ratio
- Equal angles, sides in the same ratio
- Same area, but the angles differ
(b)Side AB of a figure is 40 mm. In a similar figure it is 60 mm. What is the scale factor?
- 0.67
- 20
- 1.5
(c)To enlarge a shape by the radiating-line method, the lines are drawn from?
- One point through each corner
- The middle of each side outward
- Each corner at 45° to the base
Show the answers
(a) Equal angles, sides in the same ratio
(b) 1.5
(c) One point through each corner
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 | Q2c |
| 2025 | Q3e |
| 2024 | Q2b |
| 2023 | Q2d, Q5b |
| 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
- Perspective drawing
- Sections & truncated solids
- Axonometric projection
- Solids & their properties
- Transformations & symmetry
- Isometric & oblique drawing
- Solids of revolution