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A-level Physics past papers

Use official past papers for the exact structure and assessment style of your qualification. Select your exam board using the qualification code on your timetable or statement of entry.

AQA 7408

3 papers · 250 marks · 9 series listed

Pearson Edexcel 9PH0

3 papers · 300 marks · 9 series listed

OCR H556

3 papers · 270 marks · 9 series listed

Cambridge International 9702

5 papers · 270 marks · 2 series listed

Latest series

The most recent series for each qualification:

Which one am I sitting?

If you are not sure, the code on your exam timetable or your statement of entry answers it, and so does your teacher. The four differ in more than name: AQA sets an optional topic that your centre chooses at entry; Cambridge assesses practical skills through Paper 3, a practical examination, and Paper 5, a written planning and analysis paper; OCR puts fifteen marks of multiple choice at the front of two papers; and Edexcel puts forty per cent of the whole qualification into one 2 hour 30 minute paper that can draw on anything.

Practising without a paper in front of you

If you have run out of past papers, or want to drill one topic rather than sit a whole paper, the question practice page will build a timed set of 25, 50 or 85 marks from the selected topics, and the workbooks cover every topic in print. Those are original questions written for InkPhysics; none is taken from a past paper. They are also all text: a timed set drills calculation and written explanation, without the diagram-reading, apparatus work and plotted-data analysis a real paper carries, so it sits alongside past papers rather than standing in for one.

InkPhysics hosts no past-paper material and no mark schemes, for any of the four boards. We would rather send you to the source than serve you a stale copy of it.

Links to AQA, Pearson, OCR and Cambridge International are provided for convenience. InkPhysics is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them, and none of them is responsible for the content of this site. AQA’s copyright policy does not permit its materials to be reproduced on third-party websites in any format, and we take the same line with the other three: every paper link on this site goes to the board’s own file.