Pearson Edexcel GCSE Religious Studies A past papers

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

Yes, every question paper here has a mark scheme, and 96 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 120 out of 204 and a grade 4 needed 72 on papers 1A, 2C, 3A. On papers 1A, 2F, 3A, a grade 7 needed 116 out of 204 and a grade 4 needed 68. 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: Pearson Edexcel's own Religious Studies A specification (1RA0), a PDF on its website, which sets out what you can be examined on and how the exams are marked.

cookie's practice decks can make fresh exam-style questions from a specification or your own notes, with feedback and spaced repetition, so you can keep practising once the papers run out.

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