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Junior Cycle Wood Technology: Marking out & templates

How often Marking out & templates comes up on the Wood Technology 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

Marking out & templates, Common Level(8 marks)

Quick ones on Marking out & templates.

(a)Why are a face side and face edge chosen and marked before marking out?
  1. They show which faces get the first coat of varnish
  2. Every measurement is taken from these true faces
  3. They show the surfaces where glue will be applied
(b)Which tool is used to mark a line at 90 degrees across a board and to check that an edge is square?
  1. Marking gauge
  2. Sliding bevel
  3. Try square
(c)You need six identical curved brackets. Why make a template first?
  1. All six are traced from it, so they match
  2. The template stops the brackets warping
  3. The template makes the wood easier to saw
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(a) Every measurement is taken from these true faces

(b) Try square

(c) All six are traced from it, so they match

Your turn: Common Level questions on Marking out & templates.

Common Level

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

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2026Q3b
2025Q3e
2024Q3b
2023Q2a, Q2b
2022Q1b, Q4b

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

More Marking out & templates questions

Marking out & templates, 2 marks

Which gauge has two spurs, so it marks two parallel lines at once for a mortise?

  1. Marking gauge
  2. Cutting gauge
  3. Mortise gauge
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Mortise gauge

The two spurs are set to the width of the chisel being used, then the stock is set so the lines are in the right place. It marks both sides of a mortise or tenon in one go.

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