AQA A-level Law Paper 1 - 22nd May 2025 [Exam Chat]

Hi everyone, thought I would make an exam chat for A Level Law paper 1 2025. How is everyone feeling? What do you think will come up and what are your best revision tips?

I’m hoping loss of control, gross negligence manslaughter and maybe duress and automatism/insanity will come up
I mainly do flashcards to revise

I agree, GNM didn't come up last year so I think it's likely to come up this year. Same with duress and insanity/automatism. I think Attempts could possibly come up too, as it was in 2021 but hasn't been in an exam since. I could be wrong though.
What do you think for Q9? Fault hasn't come up for 2 years sooo I'm hoping it does this year

I agree with the GNM, I think murder and loss of control could come up too. They might do a non fatal like ABH or GBH and a duress defence or insanity/automatism.
Based on the patterns it'll probably be justice, fault wouldn't be too bad.
Does anyone have any thoughts on what the non substantive 5 marker and the 7 marker in Q11 could be?

how likely do u think fault is to come up for the Q9

how likely do u think fault is to come up for the Q9

Hi everyone, thought I would make an exam chat for A Level Law paper 1 2025. How is everyone feeling? What do you think will come up and what are your best revision tips?

I think Q6 will be statutory Interpretation, Q7 will be coincidence rule, Q8 will be non-fatal or theft, Q9 will be either harm, fault, no retrospective liability or correspondence with fair labelling, Q10 GNM, Murder, LOC and possibly Thin Skull and Q11 Theft, Robbery, OR non-fatal offences (OAPA 1861, Assault, Battery etc) with a defence and Role of solicitor as the ELS in that

why do you think that?

does anyone have any examples of their essays which have scored high marks Because i wanna compare to see if im writing them correctly

why do you think that?

in my opinion a 30 marker on theft with robbery and defence of duress of circumstances(never been asked as any type of question ever) is screaming down our necks lol
then murder didnt come up last year and Gnm is heavily due so maybe the other 30 marker could be murder gnm and loss of control and maybe they throw in an assault/battery in there
Like the topics we should all be high prioritising are
Murder/Loss of control
Theft
Duress / other defences if you have the time briefly go through all of them as they is always at least 3 defences per paper
Gross Negligence Manslaughter
but dont neglect non fatals either the reason im saying theyre not as high priority as last year there was a full 30 marker just on non fatals so the max it will come up this year is for 10 marks of the paper
if you can learn these 4 and some ELS u can guarantee yourselves a C grade at a minimum
Then for the defences duress is so likely either as a 10 marker of part of a 30 most likely duress of circumstance
then mischief golden literal rule/roles of solicitors/Jurys/funding for the 15 marks of ELS but Sentencing/JP could come too
Then for the locka its more likely to be on men's rea or a defence as AR has come 3 times since 2021 as a locka
they also love giving a full 10 marker on defence so know all ur defences well as theyre the harder ones
for the essay fault and justice should be priority, but also for the theories it that comes up harm/autonomy are overdue
when we are answering the paper we should answer the 30's first and work our way backwards so we dont run out of time
Sorry for the LONG yap but my teacher created a massive topic tracker so i know whats heavily overdue
last year they did a massive non fatal 30 marker so its unlikely this year that there will be too much on non fatals
For the next 4 days just go through murder. theft robbery gnm especially these 4 HEAVILY DUE, and then with the time u have left after these do els, defences, fault justice
take ur time with the 30's essay plan before answering and good luck guys

guys do u think we will need to know duress of circumstances too? aswell as threats