Edexcel IGCSE Business Past Papers
Every question paper and mark scheme from 2014–2024, free to download. 13 exam sittings, 39 papers.
All Edexcel IGCSE Business papers below are free — no account and no download limit. Each sitting lists every unit with its question paper and mark scheme side by side, along with the paper reference printed on the booklet.
About Edexcel IGCSE Business past papers
This page holds 21 question papers and 18 mark schemes for IGCSE Business, covering 13 exam sittings from 2014 to 2024. Every paper is free to open, with no account and no download limit, and each one sits beside its mark scheme so you can mark your own work the way an examiner would. The most recent sitting here is May 2024.
The units covered are P1, P1R, P2 and P2R. Papers appear under more than one specification code — 4BS1 and 4BS0 — because the qualification has been revised during this period. Older papers remain useful: most of the subject content carries over, and the extra practice is worth more than a tidy archive. Each paper is labelled with its own code so you can see which generation it belongs to. Papers marked R are replacement papers, set for a different time zone. They cover the same specification to the same standard, and because fewer students work through them they are a good choice when you want a paper you have not already seen.
Papers here come from the May, June and November series — about 1.2 sittings a year across the 11 years covered, which is why there is usually a recent paper available whichever session you are entered for. 3 of the question papers here do not yet have their mark scheme beside them; the rest are complete pairs. If you need one of the missing schemes, tell us and it usually goes up within a few days.
Revising Business
Business is an application subject: the theory is straightforward, and the marks come from applying it to the specific business described in the question.
Answers that could have been written without reading the case study score poorly, however accurate the theory. Name the business, use its numbers, refer to its situation. That habit alone moves most students up a band.
The calculation questions — margins, break-even, cash flow — are reliable marks and worth drilling until they are automatic, because they take a fraction of the time of a written answer.
For the longer questions, finish with a judgement that actually answers the question asked, and justify it. "It depends" with reasons is a valid answer; a list of advantages and disadvantages with no conclusion is not.
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