The nominated historic site for 2026 and 2027, every option's entry code, and the marks and AO weighting Eduqas doesn't publish in prose.
Book a Free ConsultationEduqas GCSE History (C100QS) is the WJEC group's Ofqual-accredited history specification for centres in England, teaching from 2016 with first award in 2018 and currently at Version 6, published May 2026. The qualification splits into two equally weighted components, Studies in Depth and Studies in Breadth, across four written papers, one of which carries a nationally nominated historic site worth 10% of the specification. Every learner is entered for four options plus the qualification's own cash-in code.
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Book a Free Consultation Message us on WhatsAppTwo specifications sit under one WJEC group umbrella, and they are not interchangeable. Eduqas's own GCSE History specification states plainly that it is “accredited by Ofqual” and “not available for candidates in maintained schools and colleges in Wales.” WJEC's own, separate GCSE History specification is regulated by a different body entirely and states the mirror-image exclusion: “approved by Qualifications Wales,” and “not available to centres in England.” A school in England entering a student for this page's qualification is entering C100QS; a school or revision site naming plain “WJEC GCSE History” with no Eduqas brand attached is very likely describing the other one.
That question is about the separate, Wales-only qualification above — not about Eduqas's C100QS covered on this page — and the two dates should never be carried across from one to the other. WJEC's own qualification page states: “Summer 2027 will be the final full assessment opportunity for this qualification. A resit opportunity for examinations will be available in January 2028, subject to demand. From September 2026, learners must not be entered onto this qualification in Year 10, they should be entered for GCSE History - Teaching from 2026.” None of those three dates apply to Eduqas GCSE History (C100QS), which continues unaffected under its own Version 6 specification, published May 2026, with no announced end date.
This is the detail the wider comparison of GCSE History boards cannot source for Eduqas, because Eduqas's own qualification summary omits it. The specification itself is explicit: “Component 1: Studies in Depth Written examinations: 2 hours (comprising two papers of 1 hour duration each) 50% of qualification 100 marks (plus 6 marks for spelling, punctuation and grammar and use of specialist terms).” Component 2 mirrors the shape at a different length: “Written examinations: 2 hours (comprising two papers of 45 minutes for the Period Study and one hour fifteen minutes for the Thematic Study) 50% of qualification 100 marks (plus 4 marks for spelling, punctuation and grammar and use of specialist terms).” Across the two components, a student sits four separate papers for a combined 200 raw marks plus 10 SPaG marks.
The specification also sets out exactly where those marks are weighted by assessment objective (AO), and the two components do not carry the weighting evenly:
| Component | AO1 | AO2 | AO3 | AO4 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Component 1 (Studies in Depth) | 15% | 8% | 12% | 15% | 50% |
| Component 2 (Studies in Breadth) | 20% | 27% | 3% | 0% | 50% |
| Overall weighting | 35% | 35% | 15% | 15% | 100% |
Source: Eduqas GCSE History specification (Version 6, May 2026), assessment objectives table.
Read across that table, and two things stand out for revision planning. AO4 — the marks for historical interpretations — sits entirely inside Component 1, worth 15% of the whole GCSE, while Component 2 carries none of it at all. AO2, by contrast, is concentrated in Component 2 at 27%, more than double Component 1's 8% share, so a student's Breadth papers reward second-order conceptual analysis far more heavily than their Depth papers do. This four-paper shape is itself a change from the specification's predecessor: Eduqas's own guidance for teachers switching specifications confirms “there is no longer a controlled assessment unit” and that “there are four examination papers rather than the current three.”
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Book a Free Consultation Message us on WhatsAppEvery learner is entered for four options in total, plus the qualification's own cash-in code. Eduqas states the rule directly: “All learners taking this GCSE History qualification must be entered for four options in total: 2 options for Component 1 (from British Studies in Depth and Non-British Studies in Depth) and 2 options for Component 2 (from Period Studies and Thematic Studies). In addition, all learners must be entered for the qualification cash-in.” One rule constrains the Component 1 choice: “The British and non-British Studies in Depth must be from different historical eras.” The table below carries the entry code for every option, taken directly from Eduqas's own “Making entries” table.
| Entry code | Option | Component |
|---|---|---|
| C100UA | Conflict and Upheaval: England, 1337–1381 | 1 – British Depth |
| C100UB | The Elizabethan Age, 1558–1603 | 1 – British Depth |
| C100UC | Empire, Reform and War: Britain, 1890–1918 | 1 – British Depth |
| C100UD | Austerity, Affluence and Discontent: Britain, 1951–1979 | 1 – British Depth |
| C100UE | The Crusades, c.1095–1149 | 1 – Non-British Depth |
| C100UF | Voyages of Discovery and Conquest of the Americas, 1492–1522 | 1 – Non-British Depth |
| C100UG | Germany in Transition, 1919–1939 | 1 – Non-British Depth |
| C100UH | The USA: A Nation of Contrasts, 1910–1929 | 1 – Non-British Depth |
| C100U1 | The Development of the USA, 1929–2000 | 2 – Period Study |
| C100U2 | The Development of Germany, 1919–1991 | 2 – Period Study |
| C100U3 | The Development of the USSR, 1924–1991 | 2 – Period Study |
| C100U4 | The Development of the UK, 1919–1990 | 2 – Period Study |
| C100U5 | Changes in Crime and Punishment in Britain, c.500–present | 2 – Thematic Study |
| C100U6 | Changes in Health and Medicine in Britain, c.500–present | 2 – Thematic Study |
| C100U7 | The Development of Warfare in Britain, c.500–present | 2 – Thematic Study |
| C100U8 | Changes in Entertainment and Leisure in Britain, c.500–present | 2 – Thematic Study |
| C100QS | Qualification cash-in – required in addition to the four options above | — |
Source: Eduqas GCSE History specification (Version 6, May 2026), options and entries tables.
The requirement to study a historic site sits inside whichever Thematic Study a school chooses — C100U5 to C100U8 — and never inside a Period Study. That is the single most time-sensitive fact on this page, because the site itself changes every two years, covered in full below.
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The historic-site requirement does not stand alone as a separate assessment. Eduqas's specification states: “The requirement to study an historic site is part of the Thematic Study.” It sets out precisely what that is worth and what it does not require: “For each Thematic Study an historic site will be nominated which will emerge naturally from the required content. The nominated historic site for each Thematic Study will change every two years... The study of the historic environment is worth 10% of the overall specification. There is no requirement that learners visit the site.”
For the 2026 and 2027 examination series, the four nominated sites are: Policing in Liverpool, c.1787 to 1900, for Changes in Crime and Punishment (C100U5); Letchworth Garden City, c.1903 to the present day, for Changes in Health and Medicine (C100U6); the Royal Dockyards, Chatham, c.1567 to 1984, for the Development of Warfare (C100U7); and Glastonbury Festival, c.1970 to the present day, for Changes in Entertainment and Leisure (C100U8).
Eduqas has already published the following rotation, for the 2028 and 2029 series: Crime and Punishment moves to criminal gangs in Birmingham, c.1870 to 1945; Health and Medicine moves to the city of Norwich and the impact of the plague, 1349 to 1667; Development of Warfare moves to Aldershot Garrison, 1854 to the present day; and Entertainment and Leisure moves to Scarborough, 1626 to 1939. Eduqas states plainly that “new historic sites will be nominated for each Thematic Study after 2027,” so a student sitting the 2026 or 2027 series who revises from a past paper set against the 2028–2029 sites, or vice versa, is revising the wrong location for their own Thematic Study entirely.
Whichever historic site and Depth options your child's school has entered them for, our expert Eduqas GCSE History tutors plan every lesson around that exact combination, not a generic set of GCSE History topics.
Book a Free Consultation Message us on WhatsAppAn entry code and a historic-site table look like administrative detail until they are the two things that decide what a lesson should actually cover. Our expert Eduqas GCSE History tutors start every programme by confirming three things a school's own entry letter rarely spells out in one place: which British and non-British Depth options (C100UA–C100UH) a student has been entered for, which Period and Thematic Study (C100U1–C100U8) completes their Component 2, and — because the Thematic Study carries a nominated historic site worth 10% of the whole GCSE — which of the four 2026–2027 sites applies to their particular Thematic Study.
Two students both sitting Changes in Crime and Punishment in Britain are not preparing for the same content unless they are also sitting the same examination series: the site nominated for 2026 and 2027 (Policing in Liverpool) is not the site already published for 2028 and 2029 (criminal gangs in Birmingham), so a tutor working from an old past paper's historic-site material risks revising the wrong nominated location entirely. From there, lessons alternate topic knowledge with the analytical demands the assessment-objective table above actually rewards — heavier second-order-concept practice for Component 2, where AO2 carries 27% of the marks, and dedicated interpretation work for Component 1, where the entire AO4 weighting sits. For the wider subject across boards, our GCSE History exam boards page compares Eduqas against AQA, Edexcel and OCR, and our History tutor service covers GCSE and A-level together; students continuing into sixth form can see our A-level History page for what comes next.
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Book a Free Consultation Message us on WhatsAppC100QS is the qualification cash-in code every learner entered for Eduqas GCSE History must be given, in addition to their own four option codes. Eduqas's own specification states that learners must be entered for four options in total — two for Component 1 and two for Component 2 — plus the C100QS cash-in, which is what identifies the qualification as a whole on the exam board's system rather than any single option a student has chosen.
No. Eduqas GCSE History (C100QS) is a separate, Ofqual-regulated qualification that Eduqas's own specification states is “not available for candidates in maintained schools and colleges in Wales.” WJEC publishes its own, Wales-only GCSE History specification, regulated by Qualifications Wales rather than Ofqual, which states it is “not available to centres in England.” The two share a parent organisation but are entered, marked and regulated separately, and a school naming “WJEC GCSE History” without the Eduqas brand is very likely referring to the other one.
Component 1 (Studies in Depth) is marked out of 100, plus 6 further marks for spelling, punctuation, grammar and specialist terminology. Component 2 (Studies in Breadth) is also marked out of 100, plus 4 further SPaG marks. Across the two components, a student sits four separate written papers for a combined 200 raw marks plus 10 SPaG marks. Eduqas's own specification sets out this marks total in full, even though it does not appear as prose on the qualification's public-facing summary page.
Eduqas's specification sets an overall weighting of AO1 35%, AO2 35%, AO3 15% and AO4 15%, but the two components carry that weighting very unevenly. Component 1 (Studies in Depth) is weighted AO1 15%, AO2 8%, AO3 12% and AO4 15% — meaning the entire AO4 historical-interpretations weighting sits inside Component 1. Component 2 (Studies in Breadth) is weighted AO1 20%, AO2 27%, AO3 3% and carries no AO4 marks at all, so its 27% AO2 share is more than double Component 1's.
For the 2026 and 2027 examination series, Eduqas nominates: Policing in Liverpool, c.1787 to 1900, for Changes in Crime and Punishment; Letchworth Garden City, c.1903 to the present day, for Changes in Health and Medicine; the Royal Dockyards, Chatham, c.1567 to 1984, for the Development of Warfare; and Glastonbury Festival, c.1970 to the present day, for Changes in Entertainment and Leisure. The historic-site requirement sits inside whichever Thematic Study a school has chosen — it is not a separate paper — and is worth 10% of the overall specification.
No. Eduqas's own specification states plainly: “There is no requirement that learners visit the site.” The historic site is examined as part of the Thematic Study paper using set source material Eduqas provides, in the same way as the rest of that component, and it changes on a two-year cycle — the sites nominated for 2026 and 2027 are different from those already published for 2028 and 2029, and Eduqas confirms that new sites will be nominated again after 2027.
Yes. Eduqas's specification states that “the British and non-British Studies in Depth must be from different historical eras.” A school cannot, for example, pair the Elizabethan Age (1558–1603) with the Crusades (c.1095–1149) if it wished to teach two adjacent-feeling medieval-to-early-modern topics, because the rule is checked against the specification's own era boundaries, not a subjective sense of how close two periods feel. This is one of the few structural rules governing an otherwise free choice across eight Depth options.
Eduqas's own guidance for teachers switching specifications confirms two structural changes: “There is no longer a controlled assessment unit,” and “there are four examination papers rather than the current three.” The reformed C100QS specification therefore places the entire grade on timed written examinations, split across the two 1-hour Studies in Depth papers and the 45-minute and one-hour-15-minute Studies in Breadth papers, with nothing carried forward from non-exam coursework.
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