plumiProbability: Edexcel A‑Level Statistics questions
Every Edexcel A-Level Statistics exam question on D.2 Probability, 2018–2025, with its mark scheme and examiner’s report.
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All 13 questions on Probability, as a list
- June 2025, Data and Probability, Q3 (8 marks): 3 Ali, Bob and Colin travel independently each day from their homes to the same workplace. All three adults can choose to walk or cycle or drive to work. The ta
- June 2024, Data and Probability, Q8 (11 marks): 8 Ingrid is taking part in a chess tournament. Each game she plays in the tournament is against a randomly selected player that she has not played before. In th
- June 2023, Data and Probability, Q3 (15 marks): 3 Many websites allow various filters, such as product features, to be applied to searches by online shoppers. In November 2021, the Currys website had 400 mode
- June 2023, Data and Probability, Q6 (12 marks): 6 Asbestos is a type of mineral used in construction that has been linked to health risks. Riddhi works for an asbestos removal company. She is researching the
- June 2022, Data and Probability, Q7 (16 marks): 7 Animal Crossing is a video game in which players visit desert islands. A single animal lives on each desert island. A player visiting an island will always me
- November 2021, Statistics in Practice, Q1 (20 marks): 1 Surveys of whales were made in the Southern Ocean between 1995 and 2004. Figure 1 shows results from these surveys for the total number of sightings of indivi
- November 2020, Data and Probability, Q5 (14 marks): 5 A game is played with a pack of 24 cards, each of which has a picture of a man or a woman on it, as well as his/her name. If a card is picked at random, the f
- November 2020, Data and Probability, Q7 (10 marks): 7 Wilf is a town planner investigating the feasibility of building a new village in Oxfordshire. The village will not have its own shops, so he wants to model t
- November 2020, Data and Probability, Q9 (9 marks): 9 If a foul is committed in basketball, the player who had the foul committed against them is usually awarded two ‘free throws’. A point is scored from a ‘free
- November 2020, AS Paper 1, Q3 (4 marks): 3 10 fair coins are flipped, and the number of heads obtained is counted. The following events are defined: Event A: there are exactly 2 heads obtained in the
- November 2020, AS Paper 2, Q6 (19 marks): 6 An on-demand television service sells advertising to companies at a cost that relates to the probability that their advertisement is shown. Each advertisement
- June 2019, AS Paper 1, Q5 (11 marks): 5 In order to monitor the gopher tortoise population in a particular area of Florida, a survey was taken of tortoise habitats to find the location and habitatio
- June 2018, AS Paper 2, Q5 (10 marks): 5 The Freedom of Information Act (2000) is an Act of the UK Parliament that ensures members of the public have the right to access information held by public au
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