Pearson Edexcel GCSE Citizenship Paper 2 2025 Question Paper

Download the official Pearson Edexcel GCSE Citizenship Studies (9–1) Paper 2 question paper for the Summer 2025 examination series (1CS0/02). This authentic Edexcel exam paper contains the complete set of live GCSE Citizenship Studies questions, source materials, evaluative tasks, and citizenship-action activities used during the June 2025 examinations. :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0}

The paper is divided into three sections covering Own Citizenship Action, Power and Influence: Others’ Actions, and Power and Influence in democratic society. Students answer structured questions, source-analysis tasks, evaluative essays, multiple-choice questions, and extended-discussion responses designed to assess citizenship knowledge, analysis, evaluation, and active-citizenship skills.

Section A focuses on students’ own citizenship action projects. Candidates evaluate the aims, methods, teamwork, research, viewpoints, and effectiveness of a citizenship campaign they have personally organised or participated in. Questions explore decision-making, primary research, collaboration challenges, campaign planning, and reasons why citizenship actions may succeed or fail.

Students are required to explain how their group selected goals, managed different viewpoints, conducted primary research, and overcame difficulties when working together. The section also includes a 12-mark evaluative essay asking students to assess whether the choice of campaign methods is the main reason why citizenship actions fail.

Section B examines the role of campaigns, petitions, and political influence using Source A about the UK Parliament Petition Campaign of the Year Award. The source material focuses on campaigns promoting Black history and cultural diversity in schools through e-petitions, parliamentary debates, surveys, websites, and engagement with select committees and government ministers.

Students analyse how campaigners such as Nell Bevan, Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson, Yacoub Yasin, and Cynthia Muthoni used petitions and awareness campaigns to influence Parliament and public debate. Questions assess understanding of e-petitions, parliamentary influence, campaign methods, awareness raising, and reasons why successful petitions may still fail to achieve political change.

Section C explores wider themes of democracy, media influence, human rights, international organisations, Brexit, tribunals, censorship, and global governance. Students answer knowledge-based questions alongside extended evaluative essays about the role of international organisations such as the United Nations and whether media influence on public opinion is undemocratic.

Topics covered include the Geneva Convention, the United Nations, the World Trade Organisation, press regulation, democratic versus non-democratic systems, post-Brexit changes in the UK’s relationship with the European Union, freedom of expression, censorship, public opinion, and the role of the media within democratic societies.

The paper also includes extended-discussion questions requiring students to evaluate arguments for and against international organisations protecting human rights and to assess whether excessive media influence undermines democratic values, rights, duties, and informed political participation.

The exam uses authentic Edexcel formatting and includes the official Source Booklet containing campaign case studies, parliamentary petition examples, statistics, and evaluative material identical to the live Summer 2025 examination experience.

Ideal for timed practice, mock examinations, classroom assessment, source-analysis practice, evaluative writing, citizenship-action preparation, and preparation for future GCSE Citizenship Studies exams, this downloadable PDF provides authentic Pearson Edexcel assessment material and realistic exam practice.

This document is designed for Year 10 and Year 11 students studying Pearson Edexcel GCSE Citizenship Studies (9–1), including students preparing for the 2026 examinations, independent learners, private candidates, home-educated students, and learners aiming for grades 7–9.

It is also highly useful for Citizenship Studies teachers, tutors, revision centres, intervention coordinators, and parents seeking authentic Edexcel exam material for citizenship-action planning, source analysis, evaluative writing, democracy studies, and GCSE Citizenship revision.