October 2025 Politics subject update

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Mon Oct 06 16:00:00 UTC 2025

This update contains useful information, news and advice for Edexcel Politics teachers including a new FT for Schools case study on the impact of introducing votes at 16.

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Access to scripts deadline: 12 December 2025 - After this date you will no longer be able to view your students’ scripts using our free service.

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Training for Politics teachers

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The Summer 2025 exam insights event for A level Politics is now available to book via our training page.

A Level Politics: Exam Insights Summer 2025: 17 November 2025 at 16:00 - 17:30 GMT

We are also running a Paper 3 Network event in the new year:

A Level Politics: Tackling Paper 3 Network: 09 February 2026 at 16:00 - 17:00 GMT

Pre-recorded Politics training events

We have the following pre-recorded training events for teachers who are new to teaching our Politics specification or are considering switching:

Edexcel A Level Politics network event – building exam skills ( 57:42 )

Pearson Edexcel A Level Politics Exam Insights May/June 2024 ( 1:28:16 )

Edexcel A level Politics Core and Non-Core Political Ideas network event ( 1:26:47 )

A Level Politics: New to Pearson Edexcel ( 1:55:51 )

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Up-to-date support for A level Politics

As the new academic year commences, this is a good time to reflect on all the free support and guidance that is available to support you and your students. The following document contains a comprehensive list of all our support, including links to documents and recorded training. We will keep this document up to date as and when new support is available.

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New FT for Schools case study: What will be the impact of introducing votes at 16?

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We’ve created a brand-new case study on votes at 16, using the Financial Times for Schools resource.

This votes to 16 case study, based on an FT article, relates to UK Politics 1.2: A wider franchise and debates over suffrage, and contains research activities, discussion points, suggested homework exercises and sample student responses.

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Look out for more FT for Schools case studies which will be made available soon!

Summer 25 ResultsPlus data

On our website you can now find spreadsheet containing global data from the Summer 2025 exam series for A level Politics. This data gives you a detailed breakdown of the mean marks on each question overall and by grade. Please note you will need to use your Edexcel online username and password to access these documents.

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