Mock paper revision packs
Predicted Question Packs · Summer 2026
Question-specific packs across Paper 1, Paper 2 and Paper 3 (Global + US). Each pack has notes, quiz, paragraph completion, flashcards and finish-the-sentence drills.
Important warning. These are predicted questions we have written based on patterns in past papers. They are GUESSES ONLY. Anything on the specification can come up in the real exam. Use these as practice runs after you have revised the whole spec, not as a substitute for it.
Paper 1 · UK Politics & Core Ideas
Section A · UK Politics
Q1(a)Source question · 30 marks
Using the source, evaluate the view that voting behaviour in UK general elections is now shaped more by age than by class.
Last source-level voting behaviour question was 2023 (1997 election). The 2024 election rewrote the class story.
Q1(b)Source question · 30 marks
Using the source, evaluate the view that First Past the Post is no longer fit for purpose in UK general elections.
Electoral systems has not appeared at source level since 2022. 2024's 411-seats-on-33.8% landslide is the live evidence.
Q2(a)Essay · 30 marks
Evaluate the view that minor parties play a more significant role than they did thirty years ago.
Reform UK and Greens are surging in 2026 polling. SNP has reshaped Scottish politics. Coalition era 2010-15. Untested as essay.
Q2(b)Essay · 30 marks
Evaluate the view that protest and single-issue campaigning have become more effective than voting at achieving political change in the UK.
Direct vs representative democracy is overdue. Just Stop Oil, Extinction Rebellion, Black Lives Matter, Sarah Everard vigil all live cases.
Section B · Core Political Ideas
Q3(a)Ideology essay · 24 marks · strands + thinkers focus
To what extent are conservatives divided in their view of the economy?
Conservatism Q3a most overdue ideology. Pack focuses on strands (Traditional / One-Nation / New Right) and key thinkers (Hobbes, Burke, Oakeshott, Rand, Nozick) per the spec. Real-world politics used only as brief illustration.
Q3(b)Ideology essay · 24 marks · strands + thinkers focus
To what extent do socialists disagree over the role of the state?
Socialism state question is the natural next beat after 2025's human-nature framing. Pack focuses on strands (revolutionary / social-democratic / Third Way) and key thinkers (Marx, Engels, Luxemburg, the Webbs, Crosland, Giddens) per the spec.
Paper 2 · UK Government & Non-core Ideas
Section A · UK Government
Q1(a)Source question · 30 marks
Using the source, evaluate the view that modern Prime Ministers rely more on their inner circle of advisers than on the Cabinet.
PM-Cabinet has not been at source level since 2022. Truss-Kwarteng mini-budget, Cummings era, Sue Gray-McSweeney row are the live cases. Pack carries a constructed source with three views to mirror the exam-board format.
Q1(b)Source question · 30 marks
Using the source, evaluate the view that Parliament is now more effective at scrutinising the executive than at any time in recent decades.
Parliament-and-the-executive overdue at source level. Wright reforms 2010, urgent-questions explosion, 2025 welfare retreat, Cabinet Office sevenfold growth, Truss/Johnson removal mechanics.
Q2(a)Synoptic essay · 30 marks
Evaluate the view that the codification of the UK constitution would do more harm than good.
Codification overdue at essay level. Rwanda Bill 2023, 2022 Bill of Rights attempt, Lords reform 2024-25, devolution flexibility, US comparator. Synoptic links to parties and ideologies.
Q2(b)Synoptic essay · 30 marks
Evaluate the view that the Supreme Court has become too political a body.
UK Supreme Court controversies: Miller II 2019, Begum 2024, Rwanda 2023. Sumption critique vs structural independence (CRA 2005, JAC). Public confidence higher than for MPs.
Section B · Non-core Ideologies
Q3(a/b)Anarchism · 24 marks · building
Anarchism Q3(a) human nature · Q3(b) anarchist society achievable in modern conditions. For Henry & Will.
Q5(a/b)Feminism · 24 marks · building
Feminism Q5(a) state and gender equality · Q5(b) human nature divided. For Annie & Kate.
Paper 3 · Global Politics
Section A · short questions (12 marks each)
Q1A12 marks · building
Examine the differences between the impact of political and economic globalisation on state sovereignty.
Q1B12 marks · building
Examine the similarities between NATO and the United Nations in responding to contemporary security threats.
Q212 marks · building
Analyse how realists and liberals differ in their explanations of state sovereignty in an age of globalisation.
Section B · long questions (30 marks each)
Q330 marks · building
Evaluate the view that the failure of global governance to address climate change is due more to state self-interest than to institutional weakness.
Q430 marks · building
Evaluate the view that the IMF and World Bank now do more harm than good in the developing world.
Q530 marks · building
Evaluate the view that power has shifted decisively from states to non-state actors in contemporary global politics.
Paper 3 · US Politics
Section A · short questions (12 marks each)
Q1A12 marks · building
Examine the differences between the powers held by the US President and the UK Prime Minister.
Q1B12 marks · building
Examine the similarities between how interest groups operate in the US and how pressure groups operate in the UK.
Q212 marks · building
Analyse how political parties in the US and UK differ in their internal organisation and discipline.
Section B · long questions (30 marks each)
Q3Section C essay · 30 marks
Evaluate the view that US elections are now determined more by campaign finance than by policy or candidate quality.
2024 election decisive: Harris $1.5bn lost to Trump $1bn. Bloomberg 2020 ($1bn for one delegate). Citizens United 2010, small-dollar revolution, Musk-DOGE access-buying.
Q4Section C essay · 30 marks
Evaluate the view that the US Constitution is now too difficult to amend.
Article V threshold. Last substantive amendment 1971. ERA stalled. DC unrepresented. Court substitution (Brown, Roe, Obergefell, Dobbs). UK comparative flexibility.
Q5Section C essay · 30 marks
Evaluate the view that the Supreme Court has become the most consequential branch of federal government.
Roberts Court 2022-2024: Dobbs, Bruen, Trump v US, SFFA, major questions doctrine. 6-3 conservative majority durable. UK comparator: Section 4 declaration only, not strike-down.