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Junior Cycle Science: Science in society

How often Science in society comes up on the Science papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

CL Asked on 4 of the last 6 Common Level papers, most recently in 2025. most years

Science in society, Common Level(8 marks)

Quick ones on Science in society.

(a)Who proposed that the Earth orbits the Sun, replacing the Earth-centred model?
  1. Charles Darwin
  2. Copernicus
  3. Isaac Newton
(b)Which is the best way to check whether a science claim online is reliable?
  1. Trust it if it looks professional
  2. Trust it if it has many likes
  3. Compare it with trusted sources
(c)A study saying sweets are healthy was paid for by a sweet company. Why be careful?
  1. It may be biased
  2. It uses too many graphs
  3. It will be too long
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(a) Copernicus

(b) Compare it with trusted sources

(c) It may be biased

Your turn: Common Level questions on Science in society.

Common Level

Asked on 4 of the last 6 Common Level papers, most recently in 2025. most years

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2026Not asked
2025Q13
2024Q10
2023Q13
2022Not asked
2019Q12, Q14

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

More Science in society questions

Science in society, 2 marks

Which is a technological application of physics used in hospitals?

  1. Antibiotic tablets
  2. Vaccine injections
  3. X-ray imaging
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X-ray imaging

X-rays pass through soft tissue but are absorbed by bone, giving an image. The benefit is diagnosis; the risk is radiation, so exposure is kept as low as possible.

Science in society, 2 marks

Irish physicist Ernest Walton shared a Nobel Prize for work on what?

  1. Inventing the telephone
  2. Splitting the atom
  3. Discovering penicillin
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Splitting the atom

In 1932 Walton, from Co. Waterford, and John Cockcroft split the atom using a particle accelerator they built. They shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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