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

Does anyone have an idea of questions that could come up for education for route e?

Me I'm thinking economy, work relations, maybe education, immigration, maybe standards of living? wbu

The paper you do for this unit will be one of the following:
1A: The crusades, c1095–1204
1B: England, 1509–1603: authority, nation and religion
1C: Britain, 1625–1701: conflict, revolution and settlement
1D: Britain, c1785–c1870: democracy, protest and reform
1E: Russia, 1917–91: from Lenin to Yeltsin
1F: In search of the American Dream: the USA, c1917–96
1G: Germany and West Germany, 1918–89
1H: Britain transformed, 1918–97
Post below with which one you are studying.

Is it possible to have a question on the similarities and differences between black civil rights direct action approaches, e.g. Greensboro, little rock, selma etc? Or do you think that can't come up because they aren't listed on the spec? I only say this because there's been a few questions on '...was the most significant reason for improvement'. Although I think it will most likely be 'there was limited improvement in the lives of black Americans'.

unfortunately so. what units do you think are gonna show up

I think that's two narrow a question. Similarities between African Americans and other groups is a regular question (but came up last year), similarities within only the direct action campaigns is too narrow a focus. I suppose they could ask how similar campaigns for black civil rights were over a much larger period. But more likely in my view is a question along the lines of success: how accurate is it to say that direct action (or court cases) was the main way African Americans made progress in their civil rights year-year
Or a question about leadership possibly

Does anyone do G route?

Leadership? What would that entail? Can't really think of anything besides martin luther king

Something like:
"How accurate is it to say that the improvements to the position of African Americans was mostly due to the leadership of black organisations in the period 1955-80?"
If the other essay looks better - do that one instead.
This question would be broadly the same as a "did direct action lead to the biggest improvement?" type question in terms of the content - except in your answer you would put a leadership spin on it.

Oh yeah that would be a good question. There just seems to be a very limited scope of questions it could be for the civil rights topics but I won't complain if that's the question.

And that's only a limitation by this unit in the spec - there is a paper 3 option Edexcel offer entirely on civil rights. The history itself has a huge range of potential debates - they have to keep it narrow here because it's 1 theme out of 4 and 1 possible question out of 3 you must answer (from a choice of 5).

i’d say most likely education is sure to be there cus it hasn’t come up yet

Thanks for the help

It came up in 2021 I think. Would still revise though

That was a covid year and plus most other topics they've asked multiple times so it's due

What would come up economic wise?

Anyone doing Britain Transformed?

i do

Immigration I'd agree with, for theme 2 I would expect a question on either 1917-1955 or on 1955-80, not combined. Minorities come up last year so not expecting that one.
Theme 3 - maybe living standards? Position of women was last year.
Theme 4 - no clue.

i pray 5 year plans