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What are the most popular exam boards for each subject?

AQA is the most popular GCSE exam board in the UK. Out of the most common GCSE subjects, only Maths and History are more frequently taken with Edexcel. 

All of our revision resources and topic questions are tailored to your specific exam board. We also have past and practice papers for all main exam boards, including English Literature texts across Edexcel, AQA, OCR and Cambridge IGCSE.

There are more AQA papers on Atom GCSE at the moment as it is the most common, but we are working towards having a full set of practice papers very soon! 

 

Exam boards for combined science awards

AQA's Triology double science award is the most popular combined science qualification, with 82% of students taking this route. This means that this is the exam board we've based our content on for Atom GCSE double science. 

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IGCSE exam boards 

Cambridge IGCSE is the most popular IGCSE qualification globally. This means that most of our IGCSE content is based on this exam board. We still support revision for Edexcel IGCSE for Maths and all three sciences, but not for English Language or English Literature. 

 

Breakdown of the most common GCSE exam boards

English language - AQA

English literature - AQA

Maths -  Edexcel 

History - Edexcel

Religious Studies - AQA

Geography - AQA

Spanish -  AQA

French - AQA

Combined science: Double award -  AQA

Biology - AQA

Chemistry - AQA

Physics - AQA

History - Edexcel

Religious Studies - AQA

Geography - AQA

Spanish -  AQA

French - AQA

 

There is still lots of crossover between exam boards, so even if your exam board isn't on Atom, our practice questions are still really useful!