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This page hosts StudyVector’s independent 2027 A-Level History predicted-practice paper modelled on 7042/1C,80 marks over 150 minutes. Predicted focus topics: Consolidation of Henry VII's power and the securing of the Tudor dynasty 1485-1509, The Henrician Reformation and the break with Rome 1529-1540, Mid-Tudor crisis: rebellions, faction and religious change 1547-1558, Elizabethan religious settlement and the Puritan and Catholic challenges, Tudor economy, society, poverty and enclosure across the period. It is not an official paper, not a leaked paper and not a guarantee — students should still revise the full specification and verify against official past papers from AQA.
- Qualification
- A-Level History
- Exam board model
- AQA
- Paper code
- 7042/1C
- Total marks
- 80 marks
- Time allowed
- 150 minutes
- Last reviewed
- 16 May 2026
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Predicted paper
AQA A-Level History 2027 Predicted Practice Paper — Component 1C
A-Level History · AQA-style · 150 minutes · 80 marks
Modelled component: 7042/1C
7042/1C model: 80 marks, 150 minutes. This StudyVector route models Component 1C The Tudors; other AQA History options need their own exact route.
Prediction type: predicted_paper · Evidence mode: historical · Full-length original StudyVector predicted-practice paper modelled on public exam-board structure. It is not official, leaked or guaranteed.
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- Consolidation of Henry VII's power and the securing of the Tudor dynasty 1485-1509
- The Henrician Reformation and the break with Rome 1529-1540
- Mid-Tudor crisis: rebellions, faction and religious change 1547-1558
- Elizabethan religious settlement and the Puritan and Catholic challenges
- Tudor economy, society, poverty and enclosure across the period
- Foreign policy, Spain and the wars of the late Elizabethan period 1585-1603
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Answer ALL questions. Write your answers in the spaces provided. You must write down all the stages in your working.
Section A
Compulsory interpretations question. Answer Question 01 from Section A and two questions from Section B.
Question SECTION-A1 (30 marks)
Section A: Interpretations (Compulsory). Answer this question. Read the three extracts below, which give differing interpretations of how secure Henry VII's hold on the throne was by the end of his reign. Then answer the question that follows. Extract A (from an academic study of early Tudor kingship): 'By 1509 Henry VII had made the Crown genuinely secure. The great magnate threats of 1485 had been neutralised: pretenders had been defeated, over-mighty subjects tamed by bonds and recognisances, and the royal finances restored to solvency. Henry died leaving an untroubled succession to an adult son, the surest single measure of a stable dynasty.' Extract B (from a study emphasising the fragility of the regime): 'To speak of security is to read the calm of 1509 backwards. Henry's methods rested on fear and money rather than affection. The reliance on bonds, the resented activities of Empson and Dudley, and the king's own withdrawal from public life in his final years reveal a regime that governed a resentful nobility rather than a loyal one. The peace of 1509 was brittle.' Extract C (from a study focusing on external and dynastic threats): 'Henry's security is best judged against the foreign and dynastic dangers he faced. The deaths of Prince Arthur in 1502 and of the queen in 1503 reopened the succession question, and rival claimants of the house of York remained a concern, courted or sheltered by foreign powers. Henry's diplomacy contained these dangers but never wholly extinguished them.' Using your understanding of the historical context, assess how convincing the arguments in these three extracts are in relation to how secure Henry VII's hold on the throne was by 1509. (30 marks)
(Total for Question SECTION-A1 is 30 marks)
Section B
Breadth essays - answer two from three questions. Answer Question 01 from Section A and two questions from Section B.
Question SECTION-B1 (25 marks)
Section B: Breadth essays. Answer BOTH questions. Question 2. 'The break with Rome in the 1530s was driven more by the political ambitions of Thomas Cromwell than by Henry VIII's need for a male heir.' Assess the validity of this view. (25 marks)
(Total for Question SECTION-B1 is 25 marks)
Question SECTION-B2 (25 marks)
Question 3. 'In the last fifteen years of her reign (1588-1603), the greatest threat to the stability of Elizabeth I's government came from economic and social distress rather than from political faction at court.' Assess the validity of this view. (25 marks)
(Total for Question SECTION-B2 is 25 marks)
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