Advanced Higher

Statistics · Advanced Higher

Data analysis, probability and statistical modelling, assessed by two papers.

The course

What Statistics is about

Statistics is data analysis as a discipline: collecting and cleaning data, probability, statistical models, and drawing conclusions you can justify.

Where it leads

What it offers you

Data skills in demand across science, business, economics and social research, and a strong base for statistics or data science degrees.

The archive

Papers & marking schemes

2022–2026

SQA publishes the most recent five years of papers. Older papers and specimen papers live on their site — open Statistics Advanced Higher on sqa.org.uk.

All Statistics levels