These past papers are freely available. However, they should not be taken as an indication of the style or content of any modules on the current specification.The very latest A level papers can only be accessed from the OCR Interchange or through teacher access to each unit within the Integral Mathematics Resources.
Exam advice for students and teachers
Important note regarding accuracy in Statistics Units.
Use of calculators in Statistics
Use of calculators in Core, Mechanics and Decision
Question papers, markschemes and reports are included in a single file for each examination.
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Want to convert raw marks to UMS marks? There is a useful converter on the OCR website – just enter the year of the past paper and which paper it was to get all the grade boundaries and to be able to convert a raw mark to a UMS mark.
Printed answer books are now being used in the following modules as exam marking has moved to being on screen for these: C1, C2, C3, D1, S1, S2, M1, M2, FP1. The reasons for the change, timescale for introduction and advice for candidates are in this notice to centres (September 2009) from OCR. For information about on-screen marking please see notice to centres (March 2010). More information about the changes is available on the OCR website, including some practice printed answer books for those papers marked on-screen for the first time in June 2010. Practice C1, C2, M1, S1 and D1 papers with printed exam books can be found below.
Modules and sessions |
C1 Introduction to Advanced Mathematics |
C1 Practice papers with printed answer books. The questions are the same as for the actual papers. |
C2 Concepts for Advanced Mathematics |
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C2 Practice papers with printed answer books. The questions are the same as for the actual papers. |
C3 Methods for Advanced Mathematics |
June 18 |
C4 Applications of Advanced Mathematics |
FP1 Further Concepts for Advanced Mathematics |
June 18 |
FP2 Further Methods for Advanced Mathematics |
June 18 |
FP3 Further Applications of Advanced Mathematics |
June 18 |
FPT Further Pure Mathematics with Technology |
June 17 |
DE Differential Equations |
June 18 |
M1 Mechanics 1 |
June 18 |
M1 Practice papers with printed answer books. The questions are the same as for the actual papers. |
M2 Mechanics 2 |
June 18 |
M3 Mechanics 3 |
June 18 |
M4 Mechanics 4 |
June 18 |
S1 Statistics 1 |
June 18 |
S1 Practice papers with printed answer books. The questions are the same as for the actual papers. |
S2 Statistics 2 |
June 18 |
S3 Statistics 3 |
June 18 |
S4 Statistics 4 |
June 18 |
D1 Decision Mathematics 1 |
June 10 |
June 18 |
please print the June 10 Ans. Booklet separately |
D1 Practice papers with printed answer books. The questions are the same as for the actual papers. |
D2 Decision Mathematics 2 |
June 18 |
DC Decision Mathematics Computation |
June 18 |
IQM Introduction to Quantitative Methods |
June 18 |
NM Numerical Methods |
June 18 |
NC Numerical Computation |
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Z1 Statistics 1 |
January 10 |
Z2 Statistics 2 |
Z3 Statistics 3 |
The Archive files below are zipped files containing all question papers, mark schemes and examiner's reports in each exam series:
January 2005 (598KB)
June 2005 (2531KB)
January 2006 (2596KB)
June 2006 (11264KB)
January 2007 (7633KB)
June 2007 (10205KB)
January 2008 (5804KB)
June 2008 (8081KB)
January 2009 (5467KB)
June 2009 (7444KB)
Please note the size of the files (seen in brackets) can be rather large (1024KB = 1MB) so may take a while to download depending on your internet connection. You will also need software to unzip the folder (although such software can normally be found on most computers anyway).
For old specification past papers please see The Curriculum 2000 Archive. These past papers are freely available. However, they should not be taken as an indication of the style or content of any modules on the current specification.
Specimen papers are available from OCR. There are some MEI in-house practice papers on the online resources.