AQA GCSE Religious Studies B past papers

This page links every Religious Studies B 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, every question paper here has a mark scheme, and 20 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 138 out of 204 and a grade 4 needed 80 on route XA. On route XB, a grade 7 needed 136 out of 204 and a grade 4 needed 73. 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 Religious Studies B specification (8063), a PDF on its website, which sets out what you can be examined on and how the exams are marked. According to AQA's grade boundaries for June 2026, the course is examined in 5 papers, worth 303 marks in all.

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