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Junior Cycle Graphics: Solids of revolution
How often Solids of revolution comes up on the Graphics papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.
CL Asked on 2 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2024.
Solids of revolution, Common Level(8 marks)
Quick ones on Solids of revolution.
(a)A rectangle is rotated a full turn about one of its sides. What solid does it form?
- Cone
- Cylinder
- Rectangular prism
(b)A semicircle is spun a full turn about its diameter. What solid is formed?
- Cone
- Hemisphere
- Sphere
(c)A right trapezium spins about the side at 90° to its parallel sides. What solid results?
- A frustum of a cone
- A square pyramid
- A cylinder with a cone on top
Show the answers
(a) Cylinder
(b) Sphere
(c) A frustum of a cone
Common Level
Asked on 2 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2024.
Every paper, year by year
| Year | Where it came up |
|---|---|
| 2026 | Not asked |
| 2025 | Not asked |
| 2024 | Q1c |
| 2023 | Not asked |
| 2022 | Q2c |
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
- Similar figures & enlargement
- Axonometric projection
- Solids & their properties
- Transformations & symmetry
- Isometric & oblique drawing