Exams are a part of life that everyone has to deal with. From the day you enter pre-school throughout the rest of your life you will continually be tested. Tested by teachers, professors and eventually, employers. You’ll even have to pass an exam to get a driver’s license and various operators’ licenses for work permits. So it’s important that you learn how to pass exams.

You Must Believe You Can Pass

It doesn’t seem possible that someone could have access to past exam papers and still fail the test. Unfortunately, it only takes a couple of failures for some people to start believing they’re not good at taking exams. Some people firmly believe they’re not ‘Good Test Takers.’ But nobody likes to take tests. It’s not something we willingly choose to do.

You have to get that negative thought out of your mind. Unless you have some type of learning problem that prevents you from absorbing and comprehending the material then you have the same tools that everyone else has – you have a brain and the ability to use it. That’s all it takes. So stop thinking that people who do pass exams have some sort of secret weapon. Their weapon is – they believe they will pass the test.

You Must Prepare Constantly

People who regularly pass exams with seemingly no effort at all understand that it takes constant preparation. You simply can’t wait until the night before the test before you finally crack the book and start reading the material. The human brain doesn’t work that way.

Thanks to our marvelous short term memory, it’s easy to cram a lot of information into your brain and spew it all back out the next day. But short term memory is like a drinking glass. You can fill it up with water but it will only hold so much. If you keep pouring water into the glass eventually it’s just going to start spilling out of the glass. That information that ’spills over the top’ never reaches your memory banks.

The key is to commit that information to your long term memory where you’ll be able to access it when it comes time for the exam. The brain recovers information in three ways: Information that was most recently stored – as in short term memory - information that was most frequently reviewed, and information that was committed to memory via some type of intense experience.

By frequently reviewing the information you’re committing more and more of it to your long term memory which means it’s going to stick with you for a long, long time. In other words – you won’t forget it when it comes time to take the exam.

Combine the use of past exam papers and your own notes from class. That way you’ll have all the basics plus any new information the instructor provides. The more information you can commit to your long term memory the more room you’ll have in your short term memory for those niggling little facts you review just before you sit down for the exam.

If you have benefited from the past papers on this site, and if you have other papers, please send them to me at info@pastpapers.org, and I will add your papers here - so other people can benefit from them as well!

I have now also added all the Unifying Concepts Biology Papers that means the A2 biology papers collection is complete. I’ve only added the past papers from the modules I took myself as they are the only ones I have. If I get enough requests, I will add the other optional ones as well. So far, these are A2 Biology past papers I have:

• Central Concepts
• Mammalian Physiology And Behaviour
• Unifying Concepts Past Papers

The other problem was that the AS How Far How Fast Chemistry question papers were confused with the Chains & Rings. The mark schemes for these pointed to the correct mark schemes for the how far how fast, but the question paper download link pointed to Chains & Rings. This is again fixed!

I have scanned the AS physics A OCR past papers and mark schemes from January 02 up to June 07 and I hope to upload them as soon as possible. I’ve got lots of other work to do but I’ll make some spare time. I know exams are coming up so it’s a matter of urgency.

Regarding the Physics B OCR past papers, I haven’t uploaded any of these yet.

Thanks, and again sorry for the inconvenience caused!

• Foundation
• Transport
• Human Health & Disease

Most of them are full, from 2001 Jan to 2007 Jun however, some are missing the 2003 and 2005 mark schemes because I couldn’t find them, must have lost them in the past. I will however add these as soon as I get them! The 2008 question past papers and mark schemes are also missing because I haven’t received them yet.

• Foundation
• Chains & Rings
• How Far, How Fast

Most modules have all past papers together with the mark schemes from January 2001 to June 2007! However, some (two of them I think) are missing the June 05 mark schemes and the June 07 mark schemes.

I will add the rest of A2 chemistry past papers tomorrow hopefully!

I know a lot of you have already reached the website to search for past papers. The bad news is that it’s still under construction (the website is fully operational and we keep adding new content every day!). It was only launched last week and didn’t expect such a large influx, but don’t worry I will be adding many more papers this and next week!

Thanks for understanding!

To navigate to all the A Level papers we offer, currently the OCR and Edexcel past papers please use the tree menu on the right sidebar of this page. The subjects and areas we currently cover are:

• Mathematics
• Biology
• Chemistry
• Physics
• Psychology
• Computing
• ICT
• Busines Studies

To get to the A Level papers for the subject you are after, please follow the links to the subject for your A level papers.



It is always important to do as many A level papers exams questions as possible as this will get your brain accustomized to the type of questions they are likely to ask. It has therefore been proven that if you are used to someone formulating a question one way then your brain will autonomically think of the answer without too much effort.

Take another example; while in the the mathematics lesson, doing A level papers you will be able to differentiate a certain curve almost instantly, taking into account it’s just the simple first order differentiation. However, if someone would ask you to differentiate the same curve while in a supermarket, you will have to think more about it - that is because your brain is not prepared for the question!

Therefore, A level papers constitute a large part of your A level exam revision!

Practicing lots and lots of questions from GCSE papers is the best way of doing revision not only because you get used to the exam board’s way of asking the questions but it also takes you through the whole syllabus in the subject.

Achieving a high grade in the GCSE exam is important for the future University offers especially if you are going to apply for a competitive subject. The GCSE papers section of this website helps you gain the marks and grades you want and hopefully apply and get a place at the university you aim for.

The GCSE papers on this website are split into the main subjects for GCSE:

• Mathematics
• Biology
• Chemistry
• Physics
• Geography
• History

So far, those are the only GCSE papers we have available for download. If you have any other, then please let us know so we can upload them for others to benefit and we’ll give you full credit for the donation of GCSE papers!

• GCSE Past Papers
• AS Papers
• A Level Papers

As far as we know, we have the most complete online database for AS Papers and other past papers exams. To access the AS papers and AS past papers use the tree menu on the right hand-side of the page, in the right column. You will then be able to run through all the categories of past papers exam papers.

We always try to get the latest AS papers, but if you have copies of some that you can’t find on the site, we appreciate any help! Please contact us and we’ll make sure we give you full credit for the past papers uploaded by you.

Practicing AS papers is the best revision method because it gets you used to the style of questions, as well as covering the whole range of syllabus that you will be tested on in the real exam. Afterall, the past papers were real exam AS papers in the past so they will definitely help you; in my opinion, they are even the best way of doing revision.