AQA IAS-Level Past Papers

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2025

Biology (9610)

Available years: 2025, 2024, 2023

Jan 2025Difficulty 3.8/5

An in-depth analysis of the January 2025 Oxford AQA International A-Level Biology (9610) papers (Units 1, 2, and 3). The series featured a strong emphasis on quantitative data processing, evaluation of scientific claims using standard deviation bars, and precise biochemical pathway accounts.

Jun 2025Difficulty 3.7/5

The June 2025 Oxford AQA International Biology (9610) series across Units 1, 2, and 3 represented a comprehensive assessment of core biological principles, emphasizing practical methodology, statistical evaluation, and data interpretation alongside rigorous conceptual knowledge.

Jan 2024Difficulty 3.5/5

A highly comprehensive analysis of the January 2024 Oxford AQA International Biology Series (Unit 1, Unit 2, and Unit 3). This series features an extensive emphasis on cellular respiration, mammalian transport systems, ecological competition, and rigorous experimental evaluations with standard deviation and t-tests.

Jun 2024Difficulty 3.8/5

The June 2024 series of the Oxford AQA International Biology (9610) examination spanning Units 1, 2, and 3 offered a highly comprehensive and mathematically demanding assessment. Key areas tested included prokaryotic cells, DNA translation, cardiac output calculations, speciation, ecological statistics, and experimental evaluations of photosynthesis.

Jan 2023Difficulty 3.8/5

An in-depth, multi-paper analysis of the Oxford AQA International Biology (9610) examination series (Units 1, 2, and 3). The examination evaluated core physiological, cell biological, ecological, and genetic principles, presenting a balanced mix of quantitative data analysis, experimental design, and precise factual recall across all modules.

Jun 2023Difficulty 3.4/5

A comprehensive analysis of the June 2023 Oxford AQA International Biology (9610) examination series across Unit 1, Unit 2, and Unit 3. The analysis highlights key mathematical demands, core biochemical pathways, and essential examiner expectations.

Business (9625)

Available years: 2025, 2024, 2023

Jan 2025Difficulty 3.2/5

The January 2025 International AS Business papers across Unit 1 and Unit 2 represent a balanced assessment, heavily emphasizing marketing strategies, business structures, workforce management, and cash flow objectives, with critical analytical skills rewarded across both papers.

Jun 2025Difficulty 3.5/5

The June 2025 Oxford AQA International AS Business examination consists of two papers (BU01 and BU02), each worth 80 marks with a duration of 1 hour and 30 minutes. The assessment features a balanced blend of multiple-choice questions, quantitative calculations, contextualized 9-mark analyses, and demanding 12-mark evaluative essays. High-scoring responses depended heavily on rigorous chain-of-reasoning development (AO3) and balanced, contextualized judgments (AO4).

Jan 2024Difficulty 3.2/5

A comprehensive analysis of the Oxford AQA International AS Business January 2024 (Unit 1 and Unit 2) papers, highlighting the critical role of contextual application in the 9-mark and 12-mark questions, and detailing common examiner pitfalls in quantitative calculations.

Jun 2024Difficulty 3.5/5

A highly balanced and rigorous assessment of the Oxford AQA International AS Business specification. It tests fundamental financial metrics, strategic marketing, and workforce management across two papers, placing high emphasis on contextualized evaluation and logical reasoning.

Jan 2023Difficulty 3.5/5

The January 2023 Oxford AQA International AS Business papers (BU01 and BU02) presented a balanced assessment of foundational concepts across marketing, human resources, finance, and operations. High-scoring responses depended on contextualised analysis of market structures, such as industry concentration ratios, and the critical evaluation of strategic HR, financial, and product expansion decisions.

Jun 2023Difficulty 3.2/5

The June 2023 examination featured two balanced 80-mark papers covering Unit 1 (Business and Markets) and Unit 2 (Managing Operations, Human Resources and Finance). Strong performance required accurate calculations (variable costs, sales values, decision trees) and well-structured, contextualised essays in Sections B and C.

Chemistry (9620)

Available years: 2025, 2024, 2023

Jan 2025Difficulty 3.8/5

A highly rigorous and mathematically demanding set of papers testing the full spectrum of AS and A2 Chemistry. It features significant stoichiometry calculations, physical trends, organic mechanisms, and transition metal thermodynamics.

Jun 2025Difficulty 3.8/5

A rigorous and comprehensive assessment covering core AS Physical and Organic concepts alongside advanced A-Level Inorganic and Physical topics. The series is heavily quantitative, testing everything from TOF calculations to buffer pH, alongside highly detailed mechanistic and qualitative organic and inorganic analysis.

Jan 2024Difficulty 3.8/5

The January 2024 Oxford AQA International AS and A-Level Chemistry series presented a balanced but challenging set of papers. Unit 1 focused heavily on amount of substance, Group 2, and bonding; Unit 2 put significant weight on alcohols, halogenoalkane mechanisms, and equilibria; while Unit 3 tested advanced transition metal chemistry, multi-step pH/buffer calculations, and complex thermodynamics (Born-Haber and hydration cycles).

Jun 2024Difficulty 3.8/5

A comprehensive analysis of the June 2024 Oxford AQA International AS and A-Level Chemistry (9620) examination series (Units 1, 2, and 3). The series featured a mathematically rigorous Unit 3 alongside highly balanced Unit 1 and Unit 2 papers that heavily tested practical titration methodologies, organic mechanism precision, and transition metal energetics.

Jan 2023Difficulty 3.8/5

A comprehensive examiner-level analysis of the January 2023 Oxford AQA International AS and A-Level Chemistry (9620) examination papers across Units 1, 2, and 3. The analysis covers key topic distributions, numerical methods, mechanism pitfalls, and core strategic guidance.

Jun 2023Difficulty 4.1/5

A highly rigorous examination suite across Units 1, 2, and 3, featuring a strong emphasis on multi-step calculations, graphical analyses, and complex inorganic coordination structures alongside demanding organic reaction mechanisms.

Economics (9640)

Available years: 2025, 2024, 2023

Jan 2025Difficulty 3.5/5

A comprehensive and balanced pair of papers (EC01 and EC02) testing core microeconomic market mechanics, market failure (specifically fracking and commodity price volatility), and macroeconomic policies/indicators with a strong focus on precise data response and multi-stage evaluation.

Jun 2025Difficulty 3.2/5

The June 2025 Oxford AQA International AS Economics papers provided a well-structured and balanced assessment. Unit 1 focused heavily on market failure, public goods, and minimum price interventions, while Unit 2 rigorously tested macroeconomic growth, investment dynamics, and current account balances.

Jan 2024Difficulty 3.5/5

A highly comprehensive analysis of the January 2024 Oxford AQA International AS Economics (9640) Unit 1 and Unit 2 exams, highlighting a major focus on externalities, government policy interventions, fiscal dynamics, and supply-side growth.

Jun 2024Difficulty 3.4/5

The June 2024 International AS Economics series presented a balanced yet testing suite of papers. Unit 1 focused on healthcare market dynamics, merit goods, and free-market provision versus state intervention. Unit 2 heavily emphasized fiscal policy effectiveness, labour supply dynamics, and determinants of aggregate demand.

Jan 2023Difficulty 3.8/5

This comprehensive analysis covers Oxford AQA International AS Economics (9640) Unit 1 (The Operation of Markets, Market Failure and the Role of Government) and Unit 2 (The National Economy in a Global Environment) for the January 2023 series. The exams test a wide array of core micro and macro concepts, with microeconomic analysis focusing heavily on government intervention, elasticities, and merit goods, while macroeconomics concentrates on monetary policy (including quantitative easing), inflation, and the balance of payments.

Jun 2023Difficulty 3.2/5

The June 2023 Oxford AQA International AS Economics exams (Unit 1 and Unit 2) provided a well-structured and comprehensive assessment of core microeconomic and macroeconomic principles, featuring rigorous data calculation questions and demanding evaluative essays on market intervention and supply-side policies.

English Language (9670)

Available years: 2025, 2024, 2023

Jan 2025Difficulty 3.4/5

A comprehensive evaluation of the January 2025 AS English Language series (Units 1 and 2), testing comparative textual analysis, creative directed writing, power dynamics, and conceptual essays on social factors.

Jun 2025Difficulty 3.8/5

An expert analysis of the June 2025 Oxford AQA International AS English Language (9670) Unit 1 and Unit 2 examinations, exploring key performance markers, linguistic theories, and strategic advice for achieving top marks.

Jan 2024Difficulty 3.5/5

A balanced and thorough examination across Unit 1 and Unit 2, testing candidates on comparative textual analysis, directed writing, and conceptual essays on language and power.

Jun 2024Difficulty 3.4/5

The June 2024 AS English Language exams balanced visual, multimodal analysis with digital social dynamics. Unit 1 challenged students to contrast a highly visual country park noticeboard with an informal spoken transcript, while Unit 2 explored peer-to-peer identity in a digital group chat and evaluated the socio-linguistic influence of age on communication.

Jan 2023Difficulty 3.8/5

An analysis of the January 2023 Oxford AQA International AS English Language papers (Unit 1 and Unit 2). Unit 1 evaluates Language and Context through reading comprehension and directed writing focused on reading habits. Unit 2 assesses Language and Society, focusing on a playful horse-themed warning notice and an essay debating the impact of context on language.

Jun 2023Difficulty 3.5/5

This analysis covers the June 2023 Oxford AQA International AS English Language (9670) Unit 1 and Unit 2 examinations. Unit 1 explores 'Language and Context' through comparative analysis of cycling blogs and transcripts, followed by persuasive writing tasks. Unit 2 investigates 'Language and Society' through an adult pottery class transcript and an essay on the impact of occupation on language use. This dual-paper series demands strong theoretical knowledge, precise comparative skills, and adaptable written registers.

English Literature (9675)

Available years: 2025, 2024, 2023

Jan 2025Difficulty 4.2/5

This analysis covers the January 2025 Oxford AQA International AS English Literature examination (Units 1 and 2), highlighting the rigorous demand for balanced focus across textual understanding (AO1), analysis of writers' methods (AO2), and structured academic expression (AO3).

Jun 2025Difficulty 4.0/5

This examination comprises Unit 1 (Aspects of dramatic tragedy) and Unit 2 (Place in literary texts). It challenges students to balance closed-book dramatic textual extracts with open-book thematic prose and poetry essays, prioritizing technical stylistic analysis (AO2) and contextual synthesis (AO1).

Jan 2024Difficulty 3.0/5

The January 2024 Oxford AQA International AS English Literature examinations offered balanced, highly structured papers. Unit 1 focused on pivotal dramatic turning points, such as Desdemona's death scene in Othello and the low comedy of Doctor Faustus, while Unit 2 tested the psychological and thematic resonance of physical environments across prose and poetry.

Jun 2024Difficulty 3.8/5

This analysis covers the June 2024 Oxford AQA International AS English Literature examination (Unit 1: Aspects of dramatic tragedy and Unit 2: Place in literary texts). The papers evaluated students' understanding of genre, structure, and authorial craft across a diverse selection of canonical and modern prose, drama, and poetry texts.

Jan 2023Difficulty 3.8/5

The January 2023 Oxford AQA International AS English Literature examination (Unit 1 and Unit 2) presented a balanced yet academically rigorous set of prompts. Candidates were challenged to demonstrate deep analytical connection between micro-level extracts and macro-level themes in Unit 1, and to explore the diverse symbolic, structural, and narrative dimensions of 'place' in Unit 2.

Jun 2023Difficulty 3.8/5

The June 2023 Oxford AQA International AS English Literature exam challenged students' critical faculties across aspects of dramatic tragedy (Unit 1) and representations of place (Unit 2). Success hinged on precise authorial analysis, thematic control, and coherent structured arguments.

Physics (9630)

Available years: 2025, 2024, 2023

Jan 2025Difficulty 3.8/5

A highly comprehensive evaluation of the January 2025 Oxford AQA International AS and A-Level Physics papers (Units 1, 2, and 3), covering core mechanics, wave and atomic physics, field interactions, and practical skills. The series presented a balanced mix of fundamental calculations and rigorous qualitative explanations.

Jun 2025Difficulty 4.2/5

A highly comprehensive evaluation of the June 2025 Oxford AQA International AS and A-Level Physics series (PH01, PH02, and PH03), spanning mechanics, materials, atoms, electricity, waves, and fields. The paper balances classical computational physics with rigorous graphical analysis and experimental design.

Jan 2024Difficulty 3.8/5

A highly comprehensive and mathematically challenging examination series featuring a strong focus on Simple Harmonic Motion, experimental safety and design, and cyclotron particle dynamics across Units 1, 2, and 3.

Jun 2024Difficulty 3.8/5

A highly analytical and mathematically rigorous set of three papers testing Mechanics, Materials, Atoms, Electricity, Waves, and Fields. Distinctive highlights include inclined surface moments, optical fibre modal dispersion calculations, and resultant electric field vectors near a charged oil drop.

Jan 2023Difficulty 3.5/5

The January 2023 Oxford AQA International AS/A-Level Physics (9630) examination offered a well-balanced but challenging suite of papers. PH01 pushed candidates with sophisticated kinematics, momentum conservation, and moments. PH02 featured a robust emphasis on waves, progressive and stationary wave properties, and electrical potential dividers. PH03 tested fields and their consequences extensively with complex helical magnetic trajectories, cometary orbits, and electrostatic precipitators. Practical skills and uncertainty propagation were critical discriminators across all papers.

Jun 2023Difficulty 3.8/5

A highly comprehensive three-paper evaluation of the International AS/A-Level Physics syllabus, balancing rigorous experimental analysis, complex field derivations, and core mechanics.

Psychology (9685)

Available years: 2025, 2024, 2023

Jan 2025Difficulty 3.5/5

A balanced and highly structured examination series covering the core principles of memory, social influence, psychopathology, biopsychology, cognitive development, and research methods. The papers heavily reward students who can seamlessly integrate theoretical concepts with scenario-based application.

Jun 2025Difficulty 3.2/5

The June 2025 Psychology (9685) AS Unit 1 and Unit 2 examinations provided a well-rounded and structured assessment of core foundational concepts. Across both papers, a strict 30-mark distribution per syllabus chapter was enforced. High marks were concentrated in extended evaluation essays (Asch's variables and Baillargeon's VOE), while success in short-answer questions hinged on precise term definitions and rigorous scenario application.

Jan 2024Difficulty 3.5/5

The January 2024 Oxford AQA International AS Psychology examinations (Unit 1 and Unit 2) present a highly structured, equally-weighted assessment of core psychological concepts across six primary domains, demanding strong scenario-based application (AO2) and analytical evaluation (AO3) alongside descriptive clarity (AO1).

Jun 2024Difficulty 3.5/5

An in-depth analysis of the June 2024 Oxford AQA International AS Psychology papers (PS01 and PS02), highlighting key assessment patterns across Memory, Social Psychology, Psychopathology, Biopsychology, Cognitive Development, and Research Methods 1.

Jan 2023Difficulty 3.2/5

A comprehensive dual-paper AS-level examination spanning six core introductory domains. Major focus areas include highly weighted 20-mark evaluation essays on Piaget and behavioral therapies for phobias, alongside diverse scenario-based application questions.

Jun 2023Difficulty 3.2/5

An extremely balanced and highly structured examination series across both Unit 1 and Unit 2. The papers are perfectly balanced with exactly 30 marks allocated to each of the six major syllabus areas: Memory, Social Psychology, Psychopathology, Biopsychology, Cognitive Development, and Research Methods 1. Success heavily relied on applying core theoretical concepts to specific personal scenarios and providing rigorous, balanced evaluations for high-tariff essay prompts.