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Junior Cycle Religious Education: Conscience & moral influences

How often Conscience & moral influences comes up on the Religious Education papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

CL Asked on 2 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026.

Conscience & moral influences, Common Level(6 marks)

Quick ones on Conscience & moral influences.

(a)Conscience is best described as…
  1. A fear of being caught and punished
  2. An inner sense of right and wrong
  3. A rule written down in law
(b)To be moral means…
  1. Doing whatever makes you happiest
  2. Always going along with whatever the crowd does
  3. Thinking about and doing what is right
(c)Seán decides not to shoplift because he knows it is a crime. Which influence is guiding his decision?
  1. The law
  2. Peer pressure
  3. The media
Show the answers

(a) An inner sense of right and wrong

(b) Thinking about and doing what is right

(c) The law

Your turn: Common Level questions on Conscience & moral influences.

Common Level

Asked on 2 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026.

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2026Q14
2025Not asked
2024Not asked
2023Not asked
2022Q12

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

More Conscience & moral influences questions

Conscience & moral influences, 3 marks

Why do people living in society need to be moral?

  1. So that every single person ends up equally rich
  2. So nobody ever needs to make choices
  3. So people can live together fairly and safely
Show the answer

So people can live together fairly and safely

Without shared ideas of right and wrong, such as honesty and respect, people could not trust each other. Morality protects the weak and makes community life possible.

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