Data-led analysis of a decade of A-Level GP papers: which themes recur, how questions are framed, and what examiners reward.
Across the last 9 A-Level GP essay papers (the 116 questions of 2016 to 2025, classified by ETG), the questions cluster into eight themes. Society and culture dominates; science and technology and the arts recur every single year; the environment and media appear in smaller but rising numbers. Roughly 47 in 116 questions are calibration questions (how far / to what extent) and 24 are open Discuss prompts, which is why we teach a calibrated, two-option approach rather than a flat yes or no.
Method: every question is classified by primary theme from our verified 2016 to 2025 question bank. Counts are recomputed each build.
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