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Junior Cycle Religious Education: Big questions & meaning of life

How often Big questions & meaning of life comes up on the Religious Education 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

Big questions & meaning of life, Common Level(8 marks)

Quick ones on Big questions & meaning of life.

(a)Which of these is a 'big question' about the meaning of life?
  1. How many counties are in Ireland?
  2. Why is there suffering in the world?
  3. How do you bake a loaf of bread?
(b)According to Buddhist teaching, what is the main cause of suffering?
  1. Bad luck from birth
  2. Punishment from an angry god
  3. Craving and attachment
(c)Christians believe that after death…
  1. The soul can live forever with God
  2. A person simply stops existing
  3. The soul is reborn in a new body
Show the answers

(a) Why is there suffering in the world?

(b) Craving and attachment

(c) The soul can live forever with God

Your turn: Common Level questions on Big questions & meaning of life.

Common Level

Asked on 4 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026. most years

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2026Q15
2025Q1, Q3
2024Q6, Q10
2023Not asked
2022Q6

Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.

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