CCEA GCSE Drama 5210/3 Paper 3 Knowledge and Understanding of Drama - Summer 2025
5210/3 路 Mark scheme, Question paper
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CCEA GCSE Drama past papers
This collection keeps CCEA Drama papers together so you can revise the right exam-board style and jump to related revision modules when they are available.
馃搫 10 papers
2019-2025
How the exam works
Skip to the papersCCEA GCSE Drama (5210) is assessed in 3 parts. There are no tiers: everyone sits the same papers.
Component 1: Devised Performance
- Time
- controlled assessment
- Weighting
- 25%
Component 2: Scripted Performance
- Time
- controlled assessment
- Weighting
- 35%
Component 3: Knowledge and Understanding of Drama
- Time
- 1h30m
- Weighting
- 40%
Taken from the published specification. Read the specification. Your school confirms which papers and tier you are entered for.
2025 Summer
2024 Summer
CCEA GCSE Drama 5210/3 Paper 3 Knowledge and Understanding of Drama - Summer 2024
5210/3 路 Mark scheme, Question paper
2023 Summer
CCEA GCSE Drama 5210/3 Paper 3 Knowledge and Understanding of Drama - Summer 2023
5210/3 路 Question paper
2022 Summer
CCEA GCSE Drama 5210/3 Paper 3 Knowledge and Understanding of Drama - Summer 2022
5210/3 路 Question paper
2021 Summer
CCEA GCSE Drama 5210/3 Paper 3 Knowledge and Understanding of Drama - Summer 2021
5210/3 路 Mark scheme, Question paper
2019 Summer
CCEA GCSE Drama 5210/3 Paper 3 Knowledge and Understanding - Summer 2019
5210/3 路 Mark scheme, Question paper
How to use these papers
Before you start. Work out which questions are recall and which ask you to justify a decision. The justification questions are where the marks concentrate, and they are hardest to revise for by reading.
While you work. Name the specific material, technique or component rather than describing it. Marks go to the precise term, and a description that avoids the word rarely gets there.
Marking it afterwards. Mark schemes accept a range of valid answers here, so check whether yours is on the list before deciding you were wrong. If it is not, work out what made the listed ones acceptable.
Warm up first. Studying a Set Text is the shortest activity here, so it is the quickest way back into Drama before you open a paper.
Revise this subject
Analysing and Evaluating Live Theatre
Roles, staging and design; evaluating live theatre
Performing and Designing from a Script
Devising and scripted performance (Components 1-2, underpinning knowledge)
Roles in Theatre, Staging and Design
Roles, staging and design; evaluating live theatre
Studying a Set Text
Studying a set text
The Devising Process: From Stimulus to Performance
Devising and scripted performance (Components 1-2, underpinning knowledge)
Same subject and level, other exam boards
Schools enter the same subject with different boards, and the papers are not interchangeable. Check the code on your own paper before you revise from these.
Common questions
Are these CCEA GCSE Drama past papers free?
Yes. DoRevision links to official exam-board documents and keeps the revision page free to browse.
Can I use these for Year 10 and Year 11 mocks?
Yes. Past papers are useful for GCSE mocks, timed practice and checking answers against the mark scheme.