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Junior Cycle Graphics: Spatial reasoning & visualising
How often Spatial reasoning & visualising comes up on the Graphics 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
Spatial reasoning & visualising, Common Level(8 marks)
Quick ones on Spatial reasoning & visualising.
(a)A 3×3×3 cube of 27 small cubes is painted outside. How many small cubes have 3 painted faces?
- 6
- 8
- 12
(b)What is the greatest number of faces of a cube you can see at one time?
- 2
- 4
- 3
(c)A solid block is built 4 cubes long, 3 cubes wide and 2 cubes high. How many cubes is that?
- 24
- 12
- 9
Show the answers
(a) 8
(b) 3
(c) 24
Common Level
Asked on 5 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026. banker
Every paper, year by year
| Year | Where it came up |
|---|---|
| 2026 | Q2b |
| 2025 | Q2d, Q4b, Q4c |
| 2024 | Q4a, Q5b |
| 2023 | Q2a, Q2b |
| 2022 | Q6a |
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
- 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
- Solids of revolution