AQA GCSE Religious Studies A Paper 2b 2025 Question Paper

Download the official AQA GCSE Religious Studies A Paper 2B Thematic Studies (including textual studies) question paper for the June 2025 exam series (8062/2B). This authentic AQA exam paper contains the full set of live GCSE thematic and St Mark’s Gospel questions used during the summer 2025 examination series, including AO1 knowledge questions, AO2 evaluation essays, SPaG-assessed responses, and structured extended-answer tasks across religion, ethics, philosophy, and textual studies.

The paper includes Theme A: Relationships and families, Theme B: Religion and life, Theme C: The existence of God and revelation, Theme D: Religion, peace and conflict, Theme E: Religion, crime and punishment, Theme F: Religion, human rights and social justice, plus Section B textual studies on St Mark’s Gospel. Students will encounter questions on same-sex relationships, abortion, stewardship, miracles, holy war, forgiveness, discrimination, poverty, Caesarea Philippi, Jairus’ daughter, the women at Jesus’ tomb, the Mission of the Twelve, and Jesus’ treatment of outcasts.

Students can practise real 1-mark, 2-mark, 4-mark, 5-mark, and 12-mark questions exactly as they appeared in the live June 2025 GCSE Religious Studies A examination. The paper also includes authentic AQA formatting, official timing guidance, structured answer spaces, and exam presentation identical to the real assessment experience.

The evaluation questions focus on issues such as sexual relationships before marriage, caring for the environment for afterlife reward, whether scripture is the best way to learn about God, whether war should ever be described as holy, greed as a motive for crime, discrimination, and the resurrection of Jesus in St Mark’s Gospel. Ideal for timed practice, mock exams, intervention work, revision sessions, and preparation for the 2026 GCSE Religious Studies exams.

This document is designed for Year 10 and Year 11 students studying GCSE Religious Studies A under the AQA 8062 specification, including students preparing for the 2026 exams, retake candidates, private candidates, and home-schooled learners targeting grades 7–9.

It is also highly useful for teachers, tutors, intervention coordinators, revision centres, and parents who require authentic AQA exam material for timed assessments, AO1 and AO2 practice, structured revision, mock moderation, and exam-technique improvement using official June 2025 thematic and textual studies questions.