AQA GCSE History Paper 1a Section A/d 2025 Question Paper

Download the official AQA GCSE History Paper 1 Section A/D question paper for the June 2025 exam series (8145/1A/D). This authentic AQA exam paper contains the full set of live GCSE History questions for America, 1920–1973: Opportunity and Inequality, used during the summer 2025 examination series.
The paper includes interpretation analysis, consequence explanations, social change evaluation, and extended judgement questions covering the American economy, the New Deal, Prohibition, civil rights, and women’s rights movements. Students will encounter questions on differing interpretations of the American economy during the 1920s, the problems targeted by Roosevelt’s New Deal, the effects of Prohibition on American society, and the impact of campaigns for African-American rights and women’s rights after the Second World War.

Students can practise real 4-mark, 8-mark, and 12-mark GCSE History questions exactly as they appeared in the live June 2025 AQA examination. The paper also includes authentic AQA formatting, official timing guidance, structured answer spaces, and exam presentation identical to the real assessment experience.

The examination tests a wide range of historical knowledge and analytical skills, including interpretation comparison, contextual analysis, explanation of consequences, and balanced evaluative judgement using evidence from across the America, 1920–1973 specification. The final 12-mark essay question asks students to judge whether campaigns for African-American rights or campaigns for women’s rights had the greater impact on post-war America.

Ideal for timed practice, mock exams, intervention sessions, revision work, and preparation for the 2026 GCSE History exams.

This document is designed for Year 10 and Year 11 students studying GCSE History America, 1920–1973: Opportunity and Inequality under the AQA 8145 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 history teachers, tutors, intervention coordinators, revision centres, and parents who require authentic AQA exam material for interpretation analysis, extended judgement practice, mock moderation, and GCSE History exam-technique improvement using official June 2025 examination questions.