Edexcel IAL Law Past Papers

About Edexcel IAL Law past papers

This page holds 15 question papers and 14 mark schemes for IAL Law, covering 7 exam sittings from 2019 to 2023. Every paper is free to open, with no account and no download limit, and each one sits beside its mark scheme so you can mark your own work the way an examiner would. The most recent sitting here is May 2023.

The units covered are P1, P2, U1, U2 and U3. All papers here carry the specification code YLA1.

Papers here come from the May, June and October series — about 1.4 sittings a year across the 5 years covered, which is why there is usually a recent paper available whichever session you are entered for. 1 of the question papers here do not yet have their mark scheme beside them; the rest are complete pairs. If you need one of the missing schemes, tell us and it usually goes up within a few days.

Revising Law

IAL Law is a smaller subject here, and the papers are correspondingly fewer — which makes each one worth using carefully.

Law is examined through extended written answers, so the constraint is almost always time rather than knowledge. Practise writing a full answer in the minutes the mark allocation implies — students who know the material well still lose marks by producing two excellent answers and one unfinished one.

Structure each answer the same way every time: state the rule, cite the authority, apply it to the facts in the question, then conclude. Examiners are looking for that shape, and having it automatic frees your attention for the law itself.

Answers need authority: the case or the statute, named. A legally correct answer with nothing cited scores well below the same answer with the source attached.

Because there are fewer past papers available, do not burn through them. Use one early to see the question style, revise properly, then save the rest for timed practice closer to the exam.

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