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AQA A Level Politics past papers
17 AQA A Level Politics papers from 2020 to 2025, 17 with a mark scheme and 11 with an examiners' report. Every link opens the document on AQA's own website; we list them in one place and show which topics each series tested.
Which topics come up most
The topics that have carried the most marks across the AQA A Level Politics papers we have tagged question by question. Topics with a revision guide link to it.
| Topic | Questions | Marks | Papers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conservatism | 11 | 211 | 4 of 12 |
| Core Ideas and Principles of Liberalism | 11 | 211 | 4 of 12 |
| Core Ideas and Principles of Socialism | 9 | 161 | 4 of 12 |
| Core Ideas and Principles of Anarchism | 5 | 125 | 4 of 12 |
| US Political Parties, Pressure Groups and Campaign Finance | 6 | 102 | 4 of 12 |
| Collectivist and Individualist Anarchism: Tensions Within the Tradition | 4 | 100 | 4 of 12 |
| Core Ideas and Principles of Feminism | 4 | 100 | 4 of 12 |
| Liberal and Radical Feminism: Tensions Within the Tradition | 4 | 100 | 4 of 12 |
| The SNP, Plaid Cymru and Classifying the UK Party System | 3 | 75 | 3 of 12 |
| Parliamentary Sovereignty and the Impact of Devolution | 3 | 59 | 2 of 12 |
| Political Parties | 3 | 59 | 3 of 12 |
| Comparative US/UK Constitutions: Federal and Unitary Government | 2 | 50 | 2 of 12 |
| Comparative US/UK Democracy and Participation | 2 | 50 | 2 of 12 |
| Comparative US/UK Judiciaries and Rights Protection | 2 | 50 | 2 of 12 |
| Direct versus Representative Democracy and Debates on Reform | 2 | 50 | 2 of 12 |
Counted from our own question-by-question tagging of 12 papers. A question that tests two topics counts towards both, so the marks column ranks topics rather than adding up to a paper total. Showing the top 15 of 44 topics.
All AQA A Level Politics papers by year
June 2025
| Paper | Official documents (AQA) |
|---|---|
| Paper 2: Government and Politics of the USA and Comparative Politics | Question paperMark schemeExaminers' report |
| Paper 3: Political Ideas | Question paperMark schemeExaminers' report |
June 2024
| Paper | Official documents (AQA) |
|---|---|
| Paper 1: Government and Politics of the UK | Question paperMark schemeExaminers' report |
| Paper 2: Government and Politics of the USA and Comparative Politics | Question paperMark schemeExaminers' report |
| Paper 3: Political Ideas | Question paperMark schemeExaminers' report |
June 2023
| Paper | Official documents (AQA) |
|---|---|
| Paper 1: Government and Politics of the UK | Question paperMark schemeExaminers' report |
| Paper 2: Government and Politics of the USA and Comparative Politics | Question paperMark schemeExaminers' report |
| Paper 3: Political Ideas | Question paperMark schemeExaminers' report |
June 2022
| Paper | Official documents (AQA) |
|---|---|
| Paper 1: Government and Politics of the UK | Question paperMark schemeExaminers' report |
| Paper 2: Government and Politics of the USA and Comparative Politics | Question paperMark schemeExaminers' report |
| Paper 3: Political Ideas | Question paperMark schemeExaminers' report |
November 2021
| Paper | Official documents (AQA) |
|---|---|
| Paper 1: Government and Politics of the UK | Question paperMark scheme |
| Paper 2: Government and Politics of the USA and Comparative Politics | Question paperMark scheme |
| Paper 3: Political Ideas | Question paperMark scheme |
November 2020
| Paper | Official documents (AQA) |
|---|---|
| Paper 1: Government and Politics of the UK | Question paperMark scheme |
| Paper 2: Government and Politics of the USA and Comparative Politics | Question paperMark scheme |
| Paper 3: Political Ideas | Question paperMark scheme |
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Practise the questions, not just the papers.
The past-paper tool lists every indexed Politics question by topic, with its paper, question number, marks and page, so you can sit only the ones you need.