GCSE History Past Papers: 2025 Exam Papers (AQA)

Here are the papers for the 2025 AQA GCSE History exams, covering all the main topics for both Paper 1 and Paper 2. These resources are designed to support students preparing for their AQA GCSE History assessments.

Feel free to use them as part of your revision – best of luck with your GCSE History preparation!

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Paper 1

Find below the AQA 2025 GCSE History Paper 1 for Germany, 1890–1945: Democracy and dictatorship.

AQA GCSE History 2025 Paper 1: AB Germany, 1890–1945: Democracy and dictatorship.pdf

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Find below the AQA 2025 GCSE History Paper 1 for Conflict and tension: The inter-war years, 1918–1939

AQA GCSE History 2025 Paper 1_ BB Conflict and tension_ The inter-war years, 1918–1939.pdf

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Find below the AQA 2025 GCSE History Paper 1 for America, 1920–1973: Opportunity and inequality

AQA GCSE History 2025 Paper 1_ AD America, 1920–1973_ Opportunity and inequality.pdf

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Find below the AQA 2025 GCSE History Paper 1 for Conflict and tension: The First World War, 1894–1918

AQA GCSE History 2025 Paper 1_ BA Conflict and tension_ The First World War, 1894–1918.pdf

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Find below the AQA 2025 GCSE History Paper 1 for Conflict and tension in Asia, 1950–1975

AQA GCSE History 2025 Paper 1_ Conflict and tension in Asia, 1950–1975.pdf

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Paper 2

Find below the AQA 2025 GCSE History Paper 2 for Britain: Health and the people: c1000 to the present day

AQA GCSE History 2025 Paper 2_ AA Britain_ Health and the people_ c1000 to the present day.

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Find below the AQA 2025 GCSE History Paper 2 for Elizabethan England, c1568–1603

AQA GCSE History 2025 Paper 2_ BC Elizabethan England, c1568–1603.pdf

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