Questions and answers
GCSE Questions and Answers by Topic
The questions, and what separates a good answer from a full one.
For subject teachers and heads of department
Trying before buying? 131 questions with answers, free, across 11 subjects.
100 questions a subject, each worked over at least a full page, across 12 books. Every question is shown three times over — a weak answer, a middling one and a strong one — with the mark each would actually score, so a class can be handed the three and asked to sort them before anyone is told which is which.
The lesson, not the revision session. A page works as a starter, as live modelling on a visualiser, as a homework, or as the thing two colleagues mark independently before comparing — which is standardisation without a two-hour meeting.
The model answer is the least of it. What follows each set of three is the discriminator, named out loud, and then the questions you actually ask to move a student from the first answer to the last. That prompt sequence is the part no mark scheme contains.
GCSE English Language
GCSE English Literature
GCSE Mathematics
GCSE Biology
GCSE Chemistry
GCSE Physics
GCSE Business
GCSE Computer Science
GCSE Geography
GCSE History
GCSE Physical Education
GCSE Psychology
GCSE questions by topic
Every section in every book, in the order the book takes it. The first pages of each book open free before you buy. When the exams themselves fall, and how they are graded: GCSE exams 2027.
GCSE English Language questions by topic
- Finding and interpreting information 8 questions
- Analysing language 14 questions
- Analysing structure 10 questions
- Comparing writers’ perspectives 10 questions
- Evaluating a text critically 10 questions
- Descriptive writing 10 questions
- Narrative writing 8 questions
- Writing to argue or persuade 12 questions
- Writing to explain, inform and advise 8 questions
- Sentence craft and technical accuracy 10 questions
English Language questions and answers Read the first pages free
GCSE English Literature questions by topic
- Shakespeare 13 questions
- The nineteenth-century novel 14 questions
- Poetry since 1789 12 questions
- Comparing poems 13 questions
- Modern prose and drama 12 questions
- Unseen poetry 11 questions
- Unseen prose 7 questions
- Context that earns marks 10 questions
- Writing about literature 8 questions
English Literature questions and answers Read the first pages free
GCSE Mathematics questions by topic
- Number 12 questions
- Algebra: expressions and manipulation 12 questions
- Equations, inequalities and graphs 14 questions
- Ratio, proportion and rates of change 14 questions
- Geometry: angles, shape and properties 12 questions
- Mensuration, Pythagoras and trigonometry 12 questions
- Probability 8 questions
- Statistics 8 questions
- Method, working and communication 8 questions
GCSE Biology questions by topic
- Cell biology and microscopy 11 questions
- Organisation and transport 13 questions
- Infection and response 10 questions
- Bioenergetics 12 questions
- Homeostasis and response 13 questions
- Inheritance, variation and evolution 14 questions
- Ecology 11 questions
- Apparatus and techniques 10 questions
- Working scientifically 6 questions
GCSE Chemistry questions by topic
- Atomic structure and the periodic table 11 questions
- Structure, bonding and the properties of matter 13 questions
- Chemical changes 14 questions
- Energy changes in chemistry 8 questions
- Rates and equilibrium 11 questions
- Quantitative chemistry 14 questions
- Chemical analysis 11 questions
- Industry, organic chemistry and the atmosphere 12 questions
- Apparatus and working scientifically 6 questions
GCSE Physics questions by topic
- Energy and power 11 questions
- Forces 11 questions
- Motion 13 questions
- Waves and the electromagnetic spectrum 15 questions
- Electricity 14 questions
- Magnetism and electromagnetism 9 questions
- Particle model of matter 9 questions
- Atomic structure, radioactivity and space 13 questions
- Apparatus and working scientifically 5 questions
GCSE Business questions by topic
- Business activity 16 questions
- Influences on business 12 questions
- Operations 16 questions
- Finance 18 questions
- Marketing 16 questions
- People 12 questions
- Answering the paper 10 questions
GCSE Computer Science questions by topic
- Computational thinking and algorithms 12 questions
- Programming 18 questions
- Data representation 12 questions
- Computer systems 14 questions
- Computer networks 11 questions
- Cyber security 10 questions
- Databases and SQL 5 questions
- Boolean logic 8 questions
- Impacts, and putting it together 10 questions
Computer Science questions and answers Read the first pages free
GCSE Geography questions by topic
- Tectonic hazards 8 questions
- Weather hazards and climate change 10 questions
- Ecosystems and the living world 8 questions
- Coastal landscapes 10 questions
- River landscapes 10 questions
- Glacial landscapes 6 questions
- Urban issues and challenges 12 questions
- The changing economic world 12 questions
- Resource management 8 questions
- Fieldwork 8 questions
- Geographical skills 8 questions
GCSE History questions by enquiry type
- Reading a source 8 questions
- How useful is this source 8 questions
- Two sources together 6 questions
- What an interpretation says 8 questions
- Why interpretations differ 6 questions
- Judging an interpretation 8 questions
- Cause and consequence 12 questions
- Change, continuity and significance 12 questions
- Narrative and the historic environment 12 questions
- Substantiated judgement 20 questions
GCSE Physical Education questions by topic
- Applied anatomy and physiology 20 questions
- Movement analysis 8 questions
- Physical training 18 questions
- Use of data 10 questions
- Sport psychology 14 questions
- Socio-cultural influences 12 questions
- Health, fitness and well-being 12 questions
- Answering the paper 6 questions
Physical Education questions and answers Read the first pages free
GCSE Psychology questions by topic
- Memory 11 questions
- Development 11 questions
- Psychological problems 12 questions
- Social influence 10 questions
- The brain and neuropsychology 7 questions
- Research methods 24 questions
- Criminal psychology 4 questions
- Language, thought and communication 4 questions
- Perception 4 questions
- Sleep and dreaming 3 questions
- The self 2 questions
- Debates 4 questions
- Diversity and putting it together 4 questions
Questions
Which exam board are these written for?
All of them. No board is named anywhere in the book. A subject’s assessment objectives are set by Ofqual and worded identically for AQA, Edexcel, OCR and Eduqas, so a question written to the objectives works whichever specification a department teaches.
Are these real past-paper questions?
No, and deliberately not. Every question and every answer is written for the book. Nothing is taken from a past paper, a mark scheme or an examiner report, and no candidate’s script appears anywhere. What they carry is the wording, the command word, the mark tariff and the structure the assessment objectives require.
Is this a student revision guide?
No. It is used with a class. Each page gives three answers to the same question, the mark each would score, and the prompts a teacher asks to move a student from the weakest to the best. That is the part a revision guide has no room for.
How is it used in a lesson?
Four ways, and a page is laid out for all of them: as a starter with the band labels covered so the class sorts the answers, as live modelling down the prompt ladder on a visualiser, as a homework with the full-mark answer as the next lesson’s mark scheme, or as a standardisation exercise for two colleagues marking the middling answer.
What format do I get?
A PDF, typeset for A4 and ready to print. It downloads immediately after payment, and the link stays valid so you can come back to it.
Can I share it with my department?
Yes. Every resource is free to reproduce inside the school that buys it. Print it, copy it, hand it round a department. The licence covers one school.
Can I see it before I buy?
Yes. The opening pages of every paid title are readable in the browser, free and without signing up. The behaviour playbook is free in full for a name and an email.
Is it a subscription?
No. One payment, and the file is yours. There is nothing to cancel.
What if it is not what I expected?
If the file is broken, wrong, or never arrived, you get a refund. Email info@empowereducators.co.uk with the receipt number.