AQA GCSE History Past Papers

About these AQA GCSE History papers

AQA GCSE History is specification 8145. This page links 79 question papers (79 with mark schemes) across 5 exam series, from November 2020 to June 2024. In the June 2024 series, the 16 papers were:

• 81451AA Paper 1 Section A Option A America, 1840-1895: Expansion and consolidation
• 81451AB Paper 1 Section A Option B Germany, 1890-1945: Democracy and dictatorship
• 81451AC Paper 1 Section A Option C Russia, 1894-1945: Tsardom and communism
• 81451AD Paper 1 Section A Option D America, 1920-1973: Opportunity and inequality
• 81451BA Paper 1 Section B Option A Conflict and tension: The First World War, 1894-1918
• 81451BB Paper 1 Section B Option B Conflict and tension: The inter-war years, 1918-1939
• 81451BC Paper 1 Section B Option C Conflict and tension between East and West, 1945-1972
• 81451BD Paper 1 Section B Option D Conflict and tension in Asia, 1950-1975
• 81451BE Paper 1 Section B Option E Conflict and tension in the Gulf and Afghanistan, 1990-2009
• 81452AA Paper 2 Section A Option A Britain: Health and the people: c1000 to the present day
• 81452AB Paper 2 Section A Option B Britain: Power and the people: c1170 to the present day
• 81452AC Paper 2 Section A Option C Britain: Migration, empires and the people: c790 to the present day
• 81452BA Paper 2 Section B Option A Norman England, c1066-c1100
• 81452BB Paper 2 Section B Option B Medieval England: the reign of Edward I, 1272-1307
• 81452BC Paper 2 Section B Option C Elizabethan England, c1568-1603
• 81452BD Paper 2 Section B Option D Restoration England, 1660-1685

Sit each paper under timed conditions, then mark it against the official mark scheme. To turn a raw mark into a grade, use AQA grade boundaries for the same series, because boundaries change every year. AQA's examiner reports for each series explain where candidates most often lost marks.

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