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Junior Cycle History: Patterns of change over time
How often Patterns of change over time comes up on the History papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.
CL Asked on 1 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2025.
Quick ones on Patterns of change over time.
- Vaccination
- Penicillin
- Anaesthetic
- Being moved to another Irish county
- Being forced to build the railways
- Being sent to a penal colony in Australia
- A painful test thought to show God's will
- Fingerprints, photos and DNA evidence
- A jury of twelve ordinary local people
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(a) Penicillin
(b) Being sent to a penal colony in Australia
(c) A painful test thought to show God's will
Common Level
Asked on 1 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2025.
Every paper, year by year
| Year | Where it came up |
|---|---|
| 2026 | Not asked |
| 2025 | Q8 |
| 2024 | Not asked |
| 2023 | Not asked |
| 2022 | Not asked |
Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.
More Patterns of change over time questions
Patterns of change over time, 3 marks
When tracing a theme like food or fashion across eras, a historian mainly looks for…
- Only the dates of the most famous battles
- The names of every king and queen
- What changed and what stayed the same
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What changed and what stayed the same
Patterns of change mean tracing change and continuity: e.g. Irish diets moved from mainly potatoes to far more varied food, while bread and tea stayed popular.
Other History topics
- Chronology and timelines
- Working with sources
- Archaeology
- Museums, archives and heritage
- Exploration and conquest
- Genocide and the Holocaust
- Great Famine and emigration
- Historical concepts
- Home Rule crisis & 1916 Rising
- American & French Revolutions
- Local and family history
- Physical force tradition
- Sporting & cultural movements
- Technology and innovation
- The 1960s
- The Northern Ireland Troubles
- The Reformation
- The Renaissance
- World War I or World War II
- Ancient or medieval civilisation
- Early Christian Ireland
- Fascism and communism
- Life and death in medieval times
- Parliamentary tradition
- Settlement and plantation
- The Cold War
- War of Independence & Civil War
- Women in 20th-century Ireland