Year 13 half term mock exams: AQA and OCR A

Two brand new, unseen papers at full A Level standard – using only the Year 12 content you’ve already been taught.

Instant mark schemes, plus a live walkthrough on Saturday 31st October.

£65 – or £59 with the early bird code EARLYMOCK26 until midnight on Sunday 18th October.

Book for AQA
Book for OCR A

Who is this for?

  • Any student in Year 13, taking AQA or OCR A exam boards
  • Students who want to check their exam technique and understanding of key Year 12 concepts
  • Students who are home-schooling or retaking A Level, to get useful advice and realistic exam practice.

Why take a mock now?

How would you do if your chemistry mock was tomorrow?

Most Year 13 students sit their school mocks between December and February, and the first time many of them try a full, timed paper under exam conditions is the mock itself. That’s a stressful place to find out what you’ve forgotten from Year 12.

It’s also getting harder to practise on questions you haven’t seen. Past papers are the ‘gold standard’, but most students have already worked through the recent ones (or seen the answers online), and a paper you half-remember doesn’t tell you much about what you actually know.

These mocks are written from scratch, in proper exam board style, and they only test Year 12 content. So it doesn’t matter which Year 13 topics your school has started – you won’t be tested on anything you haven’t been taught. You will, however, be tested at A Level standard, because that’s how your Year 12 content will appear in your real exams.

Sit them over half term and you’ll know where your gaps are while there’s still plenty of time to fix them.

What you get

  • Two unseen mock papers for your exam board (AQA or OCR A), each worth 50 marks
  • Multiple choice and structured questions, including calculations, practical skills and an extended response question – just like the real thing
  • The full mark scheme for each paper, available the moment you finish
  • An evaluation sheet to turn your marks into a revision plan
  • A 90 minute live session on Saturday 31st October, where I walk through the trickiest questions and the exam technique that picks up (or loses) the most marks
  • The chance to send me your own questions before the live session

How it works

  1. Book your place for AQA or OCR A.
  2. Your papers are released on Friday 16th October – sit them whenever suits you over half term.
  3. Sit each paper in one go, timed, with no notes. (Yes, really. That’s the whole point!)
  4. Mark the paper as complete and the mark scheme opens straight away. Mark your own paper and fill in the evaluation sheet.
  5. Send me any questions you’d like me to cover.
  6. Join the live session on Saturday 31st October to go through the papers together (this session is also recorded).
  7. Use your evaluation sheet and feedback from the live session to make a revision plan for the ‘real’ mocks.

Ready to boost your exam confidence?

Use the code EARLYMOCK26 and you’ll get access to the whole mock package for just £59 (available until midnight on Sunday 18th October)

Book for AQA
Book for OCR A

No. Both papers only use Year 12 content, so it doesn’t matter where your school is up to. The questions are written at A Level standard though – that’s how your Year 12 content will appear in your real exams.

Whatever works for you – print the paper and write on it, write on the PDF using a tablet, or read it on screen and write your answers on paper. You don’t need to send anything to me, as you mark your own paper.

Yes, any time from Friday 16th October. Ideally sit both before the live session on Saturday 31st October, so you get the most out of it. They can be sat in either order.

Every question is written from scratch by me, to match the style, difficulty and content of recent AQA and OCR A papers – including the command words, practical skills and maths requirements. I’ve been writing predicted papers for both boards for several years, and I’m an experienced A Level examiner, so I know what the real papers ‘look like’ from the marking side too.

No. Every question is brand new and unseen – not copied from past papers or anywhere online – so you won’t have seen them before (and neither will your teacher!).

The mark scheme includes approximate grade boundaries so you can see roughly where you are. Please treat this as a guide, not a predicted grade – one mock is only a small snapshot, and I can’t guarantee the conditions you sat it under. The most useful part is what your answers tell you about what to revise next.

Not for this course – you mark your own paper using a detailed mark scheme, and I go through the most common mistakes in the live session. If you’d like personalised marking and feedback, I offer a bespoke mock exam service; marking and feedback is also included in my group masterclass programme.

Of course. Just make sure the account is set up with your child’s details so they can log in and access the papers.

No problem – the live session is recorded, and the recording goes into your course the day after (Sunday 1st November). You can still send your questions in advance, and I’ll answer them in the session so you can catch up on the recording.