AQA Geography: September 2025 updates
Welcome to our Autumn 2025 newsletter
Published
Monday 1 Sep 2025
Welcome to our Autumn 2025 newsletter
As we step into another exciting term, we want to take a moment to thank you for the incredible work you do every day to inspire and support your students. Subject support is at the heart of what we do, and we’re proud to offer a wealth of resources, guidance, and tailored support available to help you thrive in the classroom. Together, we’re inspiring the next generation of geographers to explore, question, and change the world for the better!
We’re looking forward to seeing you at various training events this term and receiving the Government’s Curriculum and Assessment review when it’s published. In this email you’ll find all the information to get you started this term.
If any members of your team would like to receive subject-specific updates, they can easily sign up for AQA subject updates, so they’re always informed and part of our community.
Stacey Hill and Rachel Hughes
AQA Geography Subject Support
myAQA
Sign up to myAQA to get quick access to resources, CPD training and events, Data Insights (our results analysis tool) and much more this autumn term. Make sure you’ve filled in your myAQA profile including your role and subject specialism so we can instantly start connecting you with the tools, training and resources most relevant to you.
Once you’re logged into your myAQA account, you can also access Centre Services.
Marking non-exam assessment (NEA)
Are you looking to improve the accuracy of your NEA marking this year? Why not use our free Teacher Online standardisation tool during a departmental meeting to check your marking is in-line with our lead moderators?
myResources
Find everything you need on myAQA.
- Discover high-impact resources to enhance your A-level Geography teaching. Whether you’re looking for inspiration, needing schemes of work, teaching guides or past paper questions, you’ll find a range of resources to support you at every stage of your teaching journey.
- Explore our most popular resources designed to support your GCSE Geography teaching. From schemes of work and fieldwork guidance to teaching guides and past paper questions, and much more, everything you need is just a click away!
- Data Insights on Centre Services - see how your school, subject, class and individual students have performed and dig deeper into your students’ results.
- Find summer 2025 question papers, mark schemes, and examiners’ reports, all in one place on Centre Services. See what is available and when.
- You can find each of the grade boundaries on our website and the overall results statistics with cumulative pass rates for the whole AQA cohort.
myNetwork
Be in the know! Follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram for the latest updates, tips and events.
Curriculum Connect: Exploring summer 2025
Join us for these events where we'll share high-level insights into the data from the summer series, key findings from the examiners reports and areas for improvement to support student progress.
Click on the links below to book your slot!
- Curriculum Connect – GCSE Geography – Exploring Summer 2025 - 23 September and 1 October at 4.00pm
- Curriculum Connect – A-level Geography: Exploring Summer 2025 - 2 October at 4.00pm
The autumn term is packed with events, so keep an eye out for updates and reminders.
Our community links
Connect, collaborate and learn
Whether you’re new to the classroom or a seasoned geography specialist, our community networks offer resources to support KS3-5.
mySupport
Post-results services
Log into myAQA for post-results services to find information and deadlines and an easy summary guide.
Free@3 – coming soon!
We’re delighted to extend our popular ‘Free@3’ appointments available soon, following the success of last term’s trial. These 20-minute sessions gave us the chance to speak with many of you – mainly about resources, exams and qualifications and we’re keen to keep those conversations going. Look out for our autumn term Free@3 booking link coming this September.
AQA NEA advisers
Each school or college has a dedicated NEA adviser. Our advisers are experienced teachers and moderators who can offer guidance and support throughout the academic year on delivering NEA.
They’re there to answer your questions, explain specification requirements, share teaching ideas and discuss general processes, planning and approaches to NEA tasks.
Their details may have changed from last year - so you can find them on Centre Services by going to ‘Pre-exams’ and then clicking on ‘NEA Advisers’. If you do not have an assigned adviser, please contact eos@aqa.org.uk.
Please be aware that contact details are confidential and must not be shared with third parties including students and on social media. Further information about our commitment to data privacy can be found in our privacy notice.
Summer 2026 exams
GCSE Geography reminders
- GCSE exam dates for 2026
- Pre-release date (8035/3/PM): 19 March 2026.
A-level Geography reminders
NEA (7037/C) reminders
- Submission deadline: 15 May 2026
- Complete the Candidate record form, Centre declaration form, and annotate student work. See our teaching guide for guidance.
NEA digital upload
You can find detailed guidance on how to upload files on to Centre marks submission (CMS) and FAQs for teachers on preparing students’ work on our website.
Exampro
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The use of AI within assessments
JCQ’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Use in Assessments: Protecting the Integrity of Qualifications document provides teachers/assessors involved in delivering JCQ qualifications with the information they need to manage use of AI in assessments. All relevant staff need to be aware of and familiarise themselves with the new guidance and instructions. If AI misuse is detected or suspected by your school or college, and the declaration of authentication has been signed, the case must be reported.
Remember, if you have any learners who use a word processor, it must have all internet connectivity disabled. This is to help prevent, among other things, the potential misuse of AI in exams.
Using AQA resources for AI tools
AQA does not allow anybody (including schools and colleges) to use any AQA materials to train Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered tools or technologies. This includes question papers, specifications, mark schemes, reports, teaching resources and other such materials. While we understand how useful these tools are, putting any AQA material into an AI tool would be in breach of copyright law, and AQA policy.
Student Advisory Group – recruitment for 2025/26
We’re looking for learners to join our Student Advisory Group to help us make key decisions about the future of exams. We’d love to hear from learners who’ve completed AQA specification GCSEs since 2024, as well as from those taking AQA AS and A-levels. We also really want to hear from students taking our vocational qualifications, or vocational qualifications with any other exam board, as long as they have sat at least one AQA qualification.
Since the Student Advisory group began they’ve; represented the student voice each year at the Parliamentary Youth Reception, shared their views at the Curriculum and Assessment Youth Shadow Panel, fed into our Curriculum and Assessment call for evidence response, given insights on AI in the Classroom at the 2025 Festival of Education, helped with reviewing books for our English literature set texts list, and much more.
So if you know any learners who you think would be interested, please pass this on. Full details of the role and how to apply can be found on our website. Applications open on Monday 8 September and close at 5.00pm on Monday 22 September 2025.
Contact our team
Help is never more than a click away. If you have a question, we’ve got the answer.
- Email geography@aqa.org.uk
- Call us on 01483 477 791 8.00am – 5.00pm, Monday to Friday.