Edexcel IGCSE Physics Past Papers
Every question paper and mark scheme from 2014–2024, free to download. 20 exam sittings, 99 papers.
All Edexcel IGCSE Physics 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.
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About Edexcel IGCSE Physics past papers
This page holds 49 question papers and 48 mark schemes for IGCSE Physics, covering 20 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 P1P, P2P, P1, P2, P1PR and P2PR. Papers appear under more than one specification code — 4PH0 and 4PH1 — 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 January, May, June, October and November series — about 1.8 sittings a year across the 11 years covered, which is why there is usually a recent paper available whichever session you are entered for. 1 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 Physics
Physics rewards practice more obviously than almost any other subject here, because the same question types return sitting after sitting with different numbers in them.
Most marks are lost in two places. The first is calculation layout: students who write only the final answer lose method marks they had already earned, while students who set out the formula, the substitution and the answer with its unit collect marks even when the arithmetic goes wrong at the end. The second is the longer explanation questions, where the mark scheme wants a chain of cause and effect — each link in that chain is worth a mark, and skipping to the conclusion throws most of them away.
Work through papers with the formula sheet you will actually be given, not with your notes open. Knowing where a formula is on the sheet, and which quantity each symbol stands for, is a separate skill from knowing the physics, and the exam tests both.
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