AQA GCSE History past papers

This page links every History paper AQA publishes for everyone to download, newest first, starting with June 2025. Each link opens the PDF on AQA's own website. The most recent series is usually released a year or so after the exam, and it will appear here once AQA makes it public.

Yes, 126 of the 127 question papers here have a mark scheme, and 60 have an examiner report as well, which is worth reading for the mistakes that cost the most marks.

In June 2026, a grade 7 needed 96 out of 168 and a grade 4 needed 62 on route AA. On route AB, a grade 7 needed 96 out of 168 and a grade 4 needed 60. The grade boundaries for every series from June 2018 to June 2026 are on this course's grade boundaries page, and each series of papers here links to its own year's table, so you can mark a paper and read your grade.

It is linked at the top of this page: AQA's own History specification (8145), a PDF on its website, which sets out what you can be examined on and how the exams are marked.

Once you have worked through the papers, cookie has a practice deck for this course with fresh questions based on the specification and past papers, feedback on what you write, and spaced repetition.

Cookie Tutoring may have tutors for History. The Find a tutor link keeps the subject and qualification filters from this page, so you can check the marketplace without assuming that a suitable tutor is available.