AQA A-level History Paper 1 - 23rd May 2025 [Exam Chat]

Hi everyone!
How are we feeling about the Tudors this year?
Last year was an amazing paper, so I'm hoping for something equally as nice.
I'd love any question about Henry VII, but wouldn't we all...haha.
Let's share revision tips and predictions!

I fancy hENRY THE VII hes such a baddy 😫😫😫

The first Tudor and also the most dedicated, most improved, bravest, and slayest!

does anyone know what was the last year exam question on tudors

Extract Q was Henry VIII's aims in 1527-47
Essays were:
Henry VII's royal authority was never secure
How successful were Edward IV, Mary I and Elizabeth I in carrying out religious policy in 1547-1566
How significant of a threat was Mary Queen of Scots in 1565-1587

Extract Q was Henry VIII's aims in 1527-47
Essays were:
Henry VII's royal authority was never secure
How successful were Edward IV, Mary I and Elizabeth I in carrying out religious policy in 1547-1566
How significant of a threat was Mary Queen of Scots in 1565-1587

any predictions??????????? anyone

Hi all,
really struggling with the structure of my essays atm - my history teacher says there’s no ‘set way’ but advised we do:
intro
3 factors (each factor 3 evidence for 3 against the point and come to a judgement)
then conclusion
I find this so difficult though!! Anyone do a different essay structure that gets them an A/A* (aiming for A* haha)

Hi! I posted this on another thread a couple of months ago and thought it might be helpful (for context I sat my A-levels in 2024 and achieved an A*):
I would say there are 2 main kind of essay questions that tend to come up in AQA A-level history
For those that read (for example) "The Treaty of Versailles was more damaging politically than economically, to what extent do you agree", these questions provide you with 2 factors and kind of guide you towards comparing the impact, if that makes sense?
So for me, I would do maybe 4 main body paragraphs:
• Intro
• Politically damaging (as the first paragraph should always agree with the question - the other three won't necessarily go in the order below)
• Economically damaging
• Politically less damaging/positive impact
• Economically less damaging/positive impact
• Conclusion
or alternatively
• Agree with the question (political more damaging)
• Disagree (economic more damaging)
• Agree (political)
• Disagree (economic)
(this specific structure can work really well for questions such as this 'By 1964, British society was as unequal as it had been in the 1930s. Assess the validity of this view’ which can seem complicated to untangle and structure, by giving you a basic outline of how to answer it)
Either can work fine honestly but I preferred the first structure because I found that it gave me more scope to create nuanced arguments to get into higher bands of the mark scheme.
Other questions may be something like "the main reason for the creation of a welfare state by 1951 was due to the social legacy of the 1930s".
Questions like this will give you one factor to speak about but leave it very open to you how to approach it. I know some people would structure these essays in a similar way as the ones comparing factors i.e. Agree, disagree, agree, disagree but I preferred a factors-style approach. For these type of questions I would usually write 3 larger main body paragraphs rather than 4, which I preferred because it allowed me to go into greater depth exploring the arguments for and against the importance of each factor, but you can definitely write 4 if you can, I just struggled to fit it into 45 minutes haha!!
So for example for the above question I would structure my argument like this:
• Intro
• Para 1: Social legacy of 1930s
• Para 2: Other factor (WW2)
• Para 3: Other factor (Labour Party principles)
• Conclusion
These were my fav type of question because they allow you to go into a lot of depth, and this structure can make it easier to link factors together in your argument to create unique points.
Sorry if the example questions were very unrelated to your topics but I just used questions I remembered writing before haha
Hope this helps somewhat (and sorry if some of it doesn't make sense) and please ask if you have any other questions!!!

Hi guys,
I've merged conversations together talking about the History AQA exam so you can all find each other

thank you so much !! this is really really helpful and i’ll take ur advice haha !! Do you by any chance have any old top band essays that I would be able to read ?? If not don’t worry, just thought it would be worth an ask!!

As paper 1 is coming round the corner, has anyone got any predictions of what topic might be most prevalent? I know my teacher said Nazis might be the biggest, as FRG (section 4) was heavy last year? any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!

Just to say I've merged your discussion into this one where there are other people doing AQA A Level paper 1.
You may find somebody else doing your option in here