Question 1

What is Aurals.LC?

Accepted Answer

Aurals.LC is a free website for Leaving Cert aural exam practice. It helps students prepare for LC aurals by providing past aural exam audio with interactive timestamped sections for French, German, Spanish, Italian, Irish and Chinese.

Question 2

How do I practice for my Leaving Cert aurals?

Accepted Answer

Select your language and year from the dropdown menus. The aural exam audio player will load with colored sections corresponding to different parts of the LC aural. You can click on section buttons to jump to specific parts, control playback speed, and adjust volume.

Question 3

What languages are available for LC aural practice?

Accepted Answer

Aurals.LC offers free Leaving Cert aural practice for French, German, Spanish, Italian, Irish (Gaeilge), Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Portuguese, Polish and Lithuanian.

Question 4

Are the LC aural papers and marking schemes available?

Accepted Answer

Yes, for most Leaving Certificate exam years, we provide links to both the ordinary and higher level aural papers and marking schemes when available.

Question 5

Is Aurals.LC free to use?

Accepted Answer

Yes, Aurals.LC is completely free for all Leaving Cert students to practice their language aural exams. There is no signup, no payment, and no advertising.

Question 6

Which exam years are available on Aurals.LC?

Accepted Answer

Past papers from 2004 to 2025 are available for French, German, Spanish, Italian, Irish and Russian (22 years each), 2005–2025 for Japanese (21 years), 2008–2025 for Lithuanian, Polish and Portuguese (17–18 years), and 2022–2025 for Mandarin Chinese (4 years).

Question 7

Does Aurals.LC have transcripts of the aural exams?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Transcripts are generated from the official audio using ElevenLabs Scribe with word-level timestamps and are spot-checked for the most recent exam years. They are used internally to detect section start times and are published in the project repository.

Question 8

Is Aurals.LC affiliated with the State Examinations Commission?

Accepted Answer

No. Aurals.LC is an independent project built to help students practise. The audio files themselves are hosted on examinations.ie and remain subject to State Examinations Commission copyright.

Question 9

How accurate are the section timestamps on Aurals.LC?

Accepted Answer

Section start times are extracted by OpenAI GPT-4o from the word-level transcript using language-specific marker phrases (for example 'section A' for French, 'fragen zu teil eins' for German, 'número uno' for Spanish). Recent exam years are manually verified.

Aurals.LC

Leaving Certificate Aural Exam Player