IMPORTANT NOTE: THE PAPERS BEFORE 2025/2026 ARE NOT THE SAME AS THE PAPER YOU WILL TAKE THIS YEAR. THE CURRENT PAPER ONLY HAS SECTION 1: THEATRE PRODUCTION: TEXT IN CONTEXT AND SECTION 2: PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS. THE QUESTIONS ARE ALSO WORDED DIFFERENTLY.
THE PAPERS AND MARKING ARE STILL OF USE THOUGH, TO SEE HOW THEY WERE WRITTEN AND HOW THEY WERE MARKED. SOME LINKS MAY NOT WORK AT THE MOMENT WHILE SQA UPDATE THEIR SITE FOR THE NEW EXAM PAPERS.
FOR AN EXAMPLE OF THIS YEAR'S NEW PAPER, LOOK AT THE 2025 SAMPLE PAPER, YOU CAN OPEN THIS USING THE BUTTON BELOW. I'LL UPDATE THE SITE WITH NEW MATERIALS AS THEY BECOME AVAILABLE.
The other links are to old style HIGHER PAST PAPERS which you can look at to make sure you have a clearer understanding of what you can expect on the exam day (remember to only look at section 1 and section 3 on the older papers, remember also that there are slight changes to the wording of the questions). There are also MARK SCHEMES for each of these papers which you can use to get an idea of how your examiner will be marking you. As well as this (and perhaps even more useful) there are some examples of how other students answered the questions and WHAT MARKS they got for their answers. You can use these to get an idea of exactly how many marks you can expect to get for an answer.
THERE ARE LINKS BELOW TO THESE PAPERS SO YOU CAN TAKE A LOOK...
NEW SAMPLE PAPER OF THE 2025/26 EXAM ONWARDS: