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AQA 7408 Paper 3

Section A is compulsory and covers practical skills and data analysis. Section B is one of sections 9 to 13, and students enter for one of them rather than choosing in the exam hall.

7408/3A, and 7408/3BA to 7408/3BE for the five options · 2 hours · 80 marks · 32.0% of the A-level. AQA AS and A-level Physics 7407/7408, Specification, Version 1.4, July 2026, printed page 10, retrieved 21 August 2026 (https://cdn.sanity.io/files/p28bar15/green/fa68d54c1a3b8ef17760536c7fb2e3911c29dc73.pdf)

How the marks are split

What is on it

Section A is compulsory and is 45 of the 80 marks: “45 marks of short and long answer questions on practical experiments and data analysis.”

No unit of the library is Section A’s home. Those 45 marks are 18 per cent of the whole A-level, and the nearest unit, Measurements, is not the same thing. Start at the required practicals and the maths bridge instead.

Section B is the other 35 marks, on one option: “35 marks of short and long answer questions on optional topic.” You sit exactly one of these five, and which one is decided by your entry code.

Where the library covers it

This comes from the June 2025 and June 2019 question papers, not from the specification. Paper 3 arrives as two separately coded booklets, each carrying its own printed time advisory: about 70 minutes on the Section A booklet, about 50 minutes on the Section B one. Both series say the same, so the 70 and the 50 are not a one-year artefact.

The component codes on those papers are 7408/1 and 7408/2 for Papers 1 and 2, 7408/3A for Paper 3 Section A, and 7408/3BA to 7408/3BE for the five Section B booklets in the order AQA lists the options: Astrophysics, Medical physics, Engineering physics, Turning points in physics and Electronics. Every one of the six Paper 3 codes has been read off a published paper rather than inferred from the others.

The other papers

Past papers for this component

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June 202539 files

Everything AQA published for June 2025.

June 202445 files

Everything AQA published for June 2024.

June 202330 files

Everything AQA published for June 2023.

June 202232 files

Everything AQA published for June 2022.

November 202124 files

Everything AQA published for November 2021.

November 202027 files

Everything AQA published for November 2020.

June 201932 files

Everything AQA published for June 2019.

June 201828 files

Everything AQA published for June 2018.

June 201719 files

Everything AQA published for June 2017.

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