Edexcel International A Level Past Papers
Edexcel International A Level past papers and mark schemes, unit by unit.
About Edexcel International A Level past papers
The International A Level is a modular qualification, and that single fact changes how it should be revised. Instead of one examination at the end covering everything, the course is split into units, each with its own exam, its own grade boundary and its own sitting. Students typically take the first units at AS and the remainder in the second year.
Because each unit is assessed separately, a weakness in one cannot be hidden behind strength in another — and a unit sat badly can often be retaken in a later series without repeating the whole qualification. Practically, this means revision should be organised unit by unit rather than subject by subject. Working through "Physics past papers" is far less useful than working through the papers for the two units you are actually sitting this session.
Marks are reported on the uniform mark scale. Your raw mark on a paper is converted to a standardised score, and it is the total of those standardised scores across your units that produces the final grade. This is what makes it fair to add together units sat in different sessions against papers of different difficulty — and it is why a raw mark alone tells you even less here than at International GCSE.
Units are sat in January, May/June and October/November, which gives a student three opportunities a year and makes planning which units to sit when a real decision rather than an afterthought.
Reading the specification codes
Codes begin with W, and the unit is built into the code rather than written after the slash. WPH11 is Physics Unit 1 and WPH14 is Unit 4 — it is the last digit before the slash that matters, and the /01 on the end is almost always just the component. Mathematics is the exception worth learning: WMA11–WMA14 are Pure 1–4, WME01–WME03 are Mechanics, WST01–WST03 are Statistics and WFM01 is Further Pure 1.
How students use this archive
Alongside students, a noticeable share of the people using these pages are teachers putting together mock papers — the modular structure makes it easy to assemble a realistic mock from a single unit, and the deeper an archive goes, the more likely it holds a paper a class has not already worked through.
Every paper below is free, with its mark scheme beside it and no account needed. If a code on your paper does not make sense, the guide to Edexcel codes explains them; to turn a mark into a grade, use the boundary calculator.