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. Predictions are guesses. These packs are written from patterns in past papers, the 2025 Examiner Report and recent political events. Nobody knows what will come up. The packs are organised into two tiers: the first questions in each paper (Q1(a), Q1(b), Q2(a), Q2(b)) are our "most likely" picks; the later additions (e.g. P2 Q1(c), Q1(d), Q2(c), Q2(d)) are flagged as also possible and are the second-tier predictions. Both tiers are still guesses. Anything on the specification can come up. Be prepared for anything: revise the whole spec, then use these packs as targeted practice runs. Do not treat any prediction as a tip.
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.
Also possible. The packs below are second-tier predictions for the executive and Parliament block. Less likely than Q1(a) and Q1(b) above but still credible. Use these as backup practice, not as a tip.
Q1(c)Synoptic essay · 30 marks
Evaluate the view that the UK Prime Minister is now best understood as a presidential figure.
Foley's presidential thesis vs Heffernan's predominance model. Truss collapse 2022, Sunak's Cabinet management, Starmer's 174 majority, 2013 Syria vote, Miller cases. Strong synoptic spine for the predicted Paper 2 cycle.
Q1(d)Synoptic essay · 30 marks
Evaluate the view that the UK executive dominates Parliament to a degree that amounts to an "elective dictatorship".
Hailsham 1976 still central. Standing Order 14, Salisbury Convention, Henry VIII powers (EU Withdrawal Act 2018), Miller 2, 432-202 May defeat, Truss 49 days. The structural-vs-political balance is the high-band move.
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.
Also possible. The packs below are second-tier predictions for the constitution block. Less likely than Q2(a) and Q2(b) above but still credible. Use these as backup practice, not as a tip.
Q2(c)Synoptic essay · 30 marks
Evaluate the view that devolution has weakened the union.
Devolution timeline 1997-2024. Scotland 2014, SNP collapse 2024, Internal Market Act 2020, Sewel Convention, Miller 1, NI power-sharing returned 2024 with O'Neill as First Minister. Asymmetric devolution and the English question.
Q2(d)Synoptic essay · 30 marks
Evaluate the view that the House of Lords should be replaced by an elected chamber.
Hereditary Peers Act 2024 (Labour manifesto delivered), Truss 2022 cronyism, HOLAC, Salisbury Convention, Burns Report 2017, Clegg 2012 collapse. Italian/Australian Senate as comparative warnings against elected upper chamber.
Section B · Non-core Ideologies
Q3(a)Anarchism · 24 marks
To what extent do anarchists agree about human nature?
Human nature splits the two strands. Pack focuses on the collectivist reading (Kropotkin mutual aid, Bakunin human sociability, Proudhon mutualism) against the individualist reading (Stirner egoism), with Goldman as the bridge.
Q3(b)Anarchism · 24 marks
To what extent is an anarchist society achievable in modern conditions?
The spec's "utopian" idea made into a question. Pack works through the strand and route disagreements, the scale and defence problems, and the historical record (Catalonia 1936, Zapatistas, Rojava).
Q5(a)Feminism · 24 marks
Evaluate the view that feminists agree more than they disagree on the role of the state in achieving gender equality.
State has not appeared at Section B feminism since 2023. Notes lay out the three shared commitments and split the strands across three themes: reform-from-within, economic restructuring, universal vs targeted.
Q5(b)Feminism · 24 marks
Evaluate the view that feminists are divided in their analysis of human nature.
Tests the deepest area of internal feminist disagreement. Notes split the analysis across four themes: depth of patriarchy, individual vs class, universal vs particular, difference vs equality.
Q7(a)Nationalism · 24 marks
To what extent is nationalism inherently regressive?
The spec pairs "progressive" and "regressive" as key concepts. Pack works across the four strands and five thinkers: Maurras regressive, Rousseau, Mazzini, Garvey and Herder not.
Q7(b)Nationalism · 24 marks
To what extent do nationalists disagree over the role of the state?
From the liberal democratic nation-state to the integral militarist state to anti-colonial scepticism. Pack covers all four strands and the five named thinkers.
Paper 3 · Global Politics
Updated 11 June 2026. Our Paper 3 predictions have been reworked with heavier weighting on recent exam style and recency. The packs below are still useful, but the current picks, with plans, concepts, examples and practice, are on the new page:
Global predictions 2026.
Section A · short questions (12 marks each)
Q1A12 marks
Examine the differences between political globalisation and economic globalisation.
Drivers, how each strand constrains states, and the effect on sovereignty. Three to four developed differences, AO1 and AO2 only.
Q1B12 marks
Examine the similarities between NATO and the United Nations.
Both are intergovernmental organisations with no independent power, dependent on members and open to great-power dominance.
Q212 marks
Examine the differences between realist and liberal views of state sovereignty.
Anarchy versus interdependence, near-absolute versus permeable sovereignty, and the role of international institutions.
Section B · long questions (30 marks each)
Q330 marks
Evaluate the view that global environmental governance has failed to tackle climate change effectively.
Paris Agreement and voluntary NDCs, sovereignty and the free-rider problem, and emissions outcomes. Line of argument: effective in process, ineffective in outcome.
Q430 marks
Evaluate the view that the IMF and the World Bank do more harm than good.
Conditionality, the governance and legitimacy deficit, and development outcomes. Line of argument: real harm, but more good than harm on balance.
Q530 marks
Evaluate the view that power has shifted from states to non-state actors.
Economic power, security and the monopoly on force, and norms. Line of argument: power diffused, not transferred; the state remains primary.
Paper 3 · US Politics
Updated 11 June 2026. Our Paper 3 predictions have been reworked with heavier weighting on recent exam style and recency. The packs below are still useful, but the current picks, with plans, concepts, examples and practice, are on the new page:
US predictions 2026.
Section A · short questions (12 marks each)
Q1A12 marks
Examine the differences between the powers held by the US President and the UK Prime Minister.
Source of power, relationship to the legislature, security of tenure and the cabinet. Three to four developed differences, AO1 and AO2 only.
Q1B12 marks
Examine the similarities between US interest groups and UK pressure groups.
Shared purpose, matching group types, a common method set, and an insider tier shaped by resources.
Q212 marks
Examine how US and UK political parties differ in their organisation and discipline.
Decentralisation, discipline and candidate selection, explained through one integrated comparative theory (structural, rational or cultural).
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.