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Maths Past Papers
Official past papers and mark schemes for every UK exam board, straight from the source – plus the part most students get wrong, which is what to actually do with them.
Past papers and mark schemes for every UK exam board are free on the boards’ own websites – AQA, Pearson Edexcel, OCR, WJEC Eduqas, CCEA and Qualifications Scotland – and this page links directly to each of them. Math Wizard does not host exam-board PDFs, because reproducing them on a third-party site is not permitted. What it adds instead is original worksheets with full worked solutions, free to use alongside the real papers.
Official Past Papers, By Board
Every link below goes to the exam board’s own website. They are free, they are complete, and they are always the current version – which is not true of every copy floating around online.
AQA →
GCSE, AS and A Level Maths, Further Maths
Pearson Edexcel →
GCSE, IGCSE, AS and A Level Maths, Further Maths
OCR →
GCSE, AS and A Level Maths, Further Maths
WJEC / Eduqas →
GCSE and A Level Maths in Wales
CCEA →
GCSE and A Level Maths in Northern Ireland
SQA / Qualifications Scotland →
National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher Maths
We link rather than re-host. Exam papers are the boards’ copyright and their terms don’t allow third-party sites to reproduce them — AQA, for one, permits linking but not reproduction. Our own worksheets below are original and free to download.
How to Actually Use a Past Paper
Most students do past papers wrong, in the same four ways. Fixing this is worth more than doing twice as many.
1. By topic first, whole papers later
As soon as a topic is finished in class, do every past-paper question on that topic you can find. It exposes gaps while there is still time to fix them. Whole papers are for the last couple of months, when the point is pacing and stamina rather than content.
2. Closed book, on the clock, in one sitting
A paper done in three sittings with notes open measures nothing. If a student cannot finish in the time, that is the finding – write it down and work on it, rather than quietly taking an extra twenty minutes.
3. Mark it yourself, against the mark scheme
This is the step almost everyone skips, and it is the most valuable one. Mark schemes show where the method marks sit and what wording earns them. A student who has marked their own work starts writing like someone who knows what an examiner wants.
4. Chase a percentage, not a grade
Grade boundaries move every year, so “that would have been a 7 last summer” is not a plan. Pick a target percentage with enough margin above the grade you want, and the grade survives a year when the boundaries rise.
Stuck on something in particular?
Everything on this page is free and always will be. If a topic isn’t going in, we also teach maths one-to-one and in small groups – the first lesson is half price, with no contract.
Or Start With Our Own Practice Questions
Original questions written to each specification, organised by topic, with full worked solutions and the mistakes students actually make. Free to view and print, no account needed.