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AQA GCSE Geography past papers

18 AQA GCSE Geography papers from 2020 to 2025, 18 with a mark scheme and 18 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 GCSE Geography papers we have tagged question by question. Topics with a revision guide link to it.

Topic	Questions	Marks	Papers
Issue Evaluation: Interpreting Resources and Reaching a Justified Decision	12	136	4 of 8
Fieldwork Enquiry: Presenting, Analysing and Evaluating Data	4	64	4 of 8
Global Urbanisation Trends and the Growth of Megacities	2	60	2 of 8
Natural Hazards and Hazard Risk	2	60	2 of 8
Ecosystems and Tropical Rainforests	2	50	2 of 8
Changing Economic World: The Development Gap	2	44	2 of 8
Fieldwork Enquiry: Planning, Sampling and Data Collection	2	40	2 of 8
Ordnance Survey Map Skills: Relief, Contours and Cross Sections	2	30	1 of 8
UK Physical Landscapes: Coastal Landscapes	2	30	2 of 8
UK Physical Landscapes: River Landscapes	2	30	2 of 8
Numerical Skills: Percentages, Averages and Measures of Spread	1	30	1 of 8
The UK's Economic Change: Deindustrialisation to Post-Industrial Growth	1	30	1 of 8
Tropical Storms: Formation, Structure and Distribution	1	30	1 of 8
Energy Insecurity: Causes of Growing Energy Demand and Supply Issues	2	29	2 of 8
Global Food Security: Supply, Insecurity and Increasing Production	2	29	2 of 8

Counted from our own question-by-question tagging of 8 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 19 topics.

All AQA GCSE Geography papers by year

June 2025

Paper	Official documents (AQA)
Paper 1: Living with the Physical Environment (Modified paper)	Question paper Mark scheme Examiners' report
Paper 2: Challenges in the Human Environment	Question paper Mark scheme Examiners' report
Paper 3: Geographical Applications (Modified paper)	Question paper Mark scheme Insert Examiners' report

June 2024

Paper	Official documents (AQA)
Paper 1: Living with the Physical Environment	Question paper Mark scheme Insert Examiners' report
Paper 2: Challenges in the Human Environment	Question paper Mark scheme Insert Examiners' report
Paper 3: Geographical Applications	Question paper Mark scheme Insert Examiners' report

June 2023

Paper	Official documents (AQA)
Paper 1: Living with the Physical Environment	Question paper Mark scheme Insert Examiners' report
Paper 2: Challenges in the Human Environment	Question paper Mark scheme Insert Examiners' report
Paper 3: Geographical Applications	Question paper Mark scheme Examiners' report

June 2022

Paper	Official documents (AQA)
Paper 1: Living with the Physical Environment	Question paper Mark scheme Examiners' report
Paper 2: Challenges in the Human Environment	Question paper Mark scheme Examiners' report
Paper 3: Geographical Applications	Question paper Mark scheme Insert Examiners' report

November 2021

Paper	Official documents (AQA)
Paper 1: Living with the Physical Environment	Question paper Mark scheme Insert Examiners' report
Paper 2: Challenges in the Human Environment	Question paper Mark scheme Insert Examiners' report
Paper 3: Geographical Applications	Question paper Mark scheme Examiners' report

November 2020

Paper	Official documents (AQA)
Paper 1: Living with the Physical Environment	Question paper Mark scheme Examiners' report
Paper 2: Challenges in the Human Environment	Question paper Mark scheme Insert Examiners' report
Paper 3: Geographical Applications	Question paper Mark scheme Examiners' report

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