GCSE Sociology

Practice papers with model solutions

Original practice sets for GCSE Sociology, drawn from our own question bank. Each has a stable link, a printable PDF and a full worked mark scheme.

GCSE Sociology - Grades 1-9

GCSE Sociology Paper 1

Covers Family Structures and Diversity, Conjugal Roles and Childhood, Demographic Trends: Birth, Death, Divorce and Ageing and 9 more.

15 questions - 60 marks

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GCSE Sociology - Grades 1-9

GCSE Sociology Paper 2

Covers Family Structures and Diversity, Conjugal Roles and Childhood, Demographic Trends: Birth, Death, Divorce and Ageing and 9 more.

14 questions - 60 marks

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GCSE Sociology - Grades 1-9

GCSE Sociology Paper 3

Covers Family Structures and Diversity, Conjugal Roles and Childhood, Demographic Trends: Birth, Death, Divorce and Ageing and 9 more.

15 questions - 60 marks

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GCSE Sociology - Grades 1-9

GCSE Sociology Paper 4

Covers Family Structures and Diversity, Conjugal Roles and Childhood, Demographic Trends: Birth, Death, Divorce and Ageing and 9 more.

13 questions - 60 marks

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GCSE Sociology - Grades 1-9

GCSE Sociology Short Paper A

Covers Family Structures and Diversity, Conjugal Roles and Childhood, Demographic Trends: Birth, Death, Divorce and Ageing and 3 more.

10 questions - 40 marks

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GCSE Sociology - Grades 1-9

GCSE Sociology Short Paper B

Covers Explanations of Crime and Deviance, Patterns, Trends and Social Control, Social Class and Life Chances and 3 more.

9 questions - 40 marks

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Papers scoped to what has been taught

The papers above are scoped by grade band. These are scoped by teaching point instead: each one leaves out content a student at that stage has not met yet, so a mock in the middle of the course tests what has actually been covered.

These bands are a typical teaching order, not a syllabus rule. No exam board defines what belongs to Year 10, and schools sequence the course differently. Check the split against your own scheme of work before using it to decide what a class has covered. This Year 10 / Year 11 split is a scheme-of-work convention, not a specification requirement: no exam board timetables which strand is taught in which year, and centres vary a lot in pacing (some interleave Families and Education across both years instead of finishing them in Year 10, and some revisit Research Methods and Theory in short bursts throughout the course rather than teaching it as one opening block). I am least confident about education-policy specifically, since school structure and policy content is often the last part of the Education strand covered and can slip into early Year 11 if a department is behind schedule. Treat this split as a reasonable default for composing papers aimed at a given year group, not as a claim about what any particular school has actually covered by a specific date.

Year 10

GCSE Sociology - Year 10

Year 10 Paper 1: Studying Family Life

Covers the basics of sociological theory and research methods, then applies them to family structures, family roles and childhood, and demographic trends such as birth, death, divorce and ageing.

14 questions - 60 marks

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GCSE Sociology - Year 10

Year 10 Paper 2: Family Change

Covers all three family topics alongside two education topics, differences in achievement and processes inside schools.

14 questions - 60 marks

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GCSE Sociology - Year 10

Year 10 Paper 3: Education and Family Ties

Covers all three education topics together with family roles and childhood, demographic trends and research methods.

19 questions - 80 marks

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GCSE Sociology - Year 10

Year 10 Paper 4: Family and School Foundations

Covers family structures and demographic trends alongside educational achievement, education policy and sociological theory.

13 questions - 60 marks

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GCSE Sociology - Year 10

Year 10 Paper 5: Education in Depth

Covers all three education topics plus family structures, family roles and childhood, research methods and sociological theory.

18 questions - 80 marks

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GCSE Sociology - Year 10

Year 10 Paper 6: Full Year Review

Covers every topic studied in Year 10: family structures, family roles and childhood, demographic trends, all three education topics, research methods and sociological theory.

24 questions - 100 marks

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Year 11

GCSE Sociology - Year 11

Year 11 Paper 1: Crime and Deviance

Covers both crime topics, explanations of crime and how crime is controlled, alongside sociological theory, research methods and education policy.

15 questions - 60 marks

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GCSE Sociology - Year 11

Year 11 Paper 2: Social Stratification

Covers both stratification topics, social class and stratification by gender and ethnicity, alongside sociological theory, research methods and family structures.

13 questions - 60 marks

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GCSE Sociology - Year 11

Year 11 Paper 3: Crime, Stratification and Family

Covers both crime topics and both stratification topics together with all three family topics.

19 questions - 80 marks

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GCSE Sociology - Year 11

Year 11 Paper 4: Crime, Class and Education

Covers explanations of crime and social class alongside all three education topics.

14 questions - 60 marks

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GCSE Sociology - Year 11

Year 11 Paper 5: Crime and Stratification in Depth

Covers both crime topics, both stratification topics, research methods, sociological theory and educational achievement.

19 questions - 80 marks

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GCSE Sociology - Year 11

Year 11 Paper 6: Full Course Mock

Covers family structures, educational achievement, both crime topics, both stratification topics, research methods and sociological theory.

23 questions - 100 marks

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