Past papers

Past papers for free download

A selection of past question papers for General Qualifications and Vocational Qualifications are available to download from the website.

General Qualifications

Please click on the appropriate year to view the past papers for that qualification type.

14-19 past papers for January and June 2008 and January and June 2007 are available by clicking on either the year or qualification type below.

Alternatively, please contact OCR's Customer Contact Centre on 02476 851509.

January 2009 past papers

14-19 past papers and mark-schemes for January 2009 are now available from their new location under 'Resources' from OCR Interchange

Find out more information and make sure your centre is registered on our Interchange pages.

Also available from OCR Interchange are 14-19 January 2009 modified past papers.

All 14-19 January 2009 past papers will remain on Interchange until mid-August when they will be moved to the OCR website.

  January series March series June series
AEA N/A N/A Available to download2007 Available to download2008
AS/A Level GCE Available to download2007 Available to download2008 N/A Available to download2007 Available to download2008
Entry Level N/A N/A Available to download2007
FSMQ Available to download2007 N/A Available to download2007
GCSE Available to download2007 Available to download2008 Available to download2007 Available to download2007 Available to download2008
GCSE Short Courses Available to download2007 N/A Available to download2007 Available to download2008

Vocational Qualifications

Please click on the Available to download icon to view the past papers for that qualification type.

  2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Functional Skills N/A N/A N/A N/A Available to downloadAvailable
Skills for Life (Key Skills) Available to downloadAvailable Available to downloadAvailable Available to downloadAvailable Available to downloadAvailable N/A

Past papers for purchase

If you would like to order publications online either through a centre account or using a credit/debit card please visit the publications ordering website. For more information on publications or to download the latest catalogue please see the how to order publications page.

Terms and Conditions

Third party copyright restrictions

Many question papers contain material that is sourced from third-parties, such as photographs; extracts and diagrams from newspapers; books and magazines. Where this is the case, OCR endeavours to obtain full copyright clearance for their use. However, if this has not been possible some papers may not be available online or will have specific content removed.

Conditions for centres

Copyright restrictions apply to the use of the papers by centres - they may be downloaded and printed for internal purposes within centres for examination preparation and private study. Centres may also save electronic versions of past papers on an internal intranet site of internal virtual learning environment. Centres do not need to apply for copyright clearance to do this.

However, centres wishing to reproduce past papers (or any other OCR materials) onto an externally facing Internet site or wishing to publish them in hard copy externally, must apply for permission in writing from OCR.

Publishers must also apply in writing for permission to reproduce any OCR materials.

For more information about OCR qualifications, or to apply for permission to reproduce OCR materials, please email us:

Vocational qualifications: vocational.qualifications@ocr.org.uk

General qualifications: general.qualifications@ocr.org.uk

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