Edexcel International GCSE Past Papers
Edexcel International GCSE past papers and mark schemes, old and new specification.
About Edexcel International GCSE past papers
The International GCSE is the qualification most students sit at around sixteen, in schools outside the UK and in international schools within it. It is examined entirely at the end of the course rather than through coursework, which is why past papers matter so much here: the exam is the whole assessment, and the format of that exam is the thing you can practise.
Each subject is usually assessed through two written papers, taken in the same series. Some subjects add a practical or a listening component. Papers are sat in the May/June series, with a smaller January series for many subjects and an October/November series for some, so a student who needs to resit rarely waits a full year.
A detail that catches people out: Mathematics A is tiered. Papers marked F are Foundation and papers marked H are Higher, with different grade ranges and different content ceilings. They are separate exams, and revising from the wrong tier is either discouraging or dangerously reassuring. Mathematics B and Pure Mathematics are untiered, as are the sciences.
Grading uses either the 9–1 scale or A*–G depending on the subject and the year, and in both cases the mark needed for a grade is set after each sitting rather than fixed in advance. That is why a raw score cannot be read as a grade without the boundary table for that particular session.
Reading the specification codes
Specification codes beginning 4 are International GCSE. The final digit is the generation — 4PH0 is the older Physics specification and 4PH1 the current one. Both are kept here, labelled, because most of the subject content carried over and the extra practice is worth having once the current papers run out.
How students use this archive
Most students arrive here in the months before their first sitting, looking for one specific paper. A smaller group — usually those starting Year 10 — use the archive differently, working through older papers topic by topic as they finish each unit in class. That second approach is the more effective of the two, and the one almost nobody is taught.
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.