Pearson Edexcel A Level Politics 2025 Paper 3b Mark Scheme

Download the official Pearson Edexcel A Level Politics Paper 3B: Comparative Politics – Global Politics Mark Scheme for the June 2025 examination series (9PL0/3B). This examiner-approved PDF contains complete indicative content, comparative-analysis guidance, levels-based marking criteria, assessment objectives, evaluative judgement frameworks, and official examiner commentary used to assess student responses in the Summer 2025 A Level Politics examinations.

The June 2025 Edexcel Global Politics mark scheme includes detailed examiner guidance for the United Nations Security Council, NATO, superpowers, great powers, realism, liberalism, international law, international human rights institutions, regional organisations, sovereignty, and changing world order. Students can learn exactly how Pearson Edexcel examiners award marks for AO1 knowledge, AO2 comparative analysis, AO3 evaluation, synoptic reasoning, balanced argument construction, and global-political judgement under real examination conditions.

This mark scheme provides official examiner approaches for analysing realist and liberal views on the inevitability of war, evaluating whether regional organisations effectively address global issues, assessing the impact of international law and human rights institutions on state sovereignty, and debating whether world order since 2000 is more multipolar than unipolar. It also explains the precise requirements for achieving higher-level responses in Edexcel Politics essays, including balanced evaluation, comparative reasoning, sustained judgement, and accurate political terminology.

Topics covered include collective security, NATO Article 5, the UN Security Council veto system, complex interdependence, the security dilemma, the billiard-ball model, R2P, the ICC, ECHR, the European Union, ASEAN, NAFTA, IMF, G20, unipolarity, multipolarity, Chinese economic growth, US military dominance, and the decline of American soft power. The mark scheme also outlines the exact examiner expectations for Level 5 responses, including sustained analysis, cohesive evaluation, substantiated arguments, and fully justified conclusions.

Perfect for Year 13 students, private candidates, sixth-form learners, resit students, politics teachers, tutors, revision academies, and global-politics learners preparing for the 2025 and 2026 Pearson Edexcel A Level Politics examinations. This downloadable PDF helps improve essay structure, strengthen comparative analysis, maximise AO1, AO2, and AO3 marks, and develop examiner-standard Politics responses using official Pearson examiner guidance.

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