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A-level maths past papers: a guide to reliable sources
Find A-level maths past papers from official exam boards, trusted revision websites and YouTube channels to support teaching, learning and exam preparation.
Easy access to A-level maths past papers and revision resources can help students build exam confidence, develop timing strategies and understand how marks are awarded.
In this guide, we bring together some of the most reliable places to find practice papers, mark schemes and supporting resources.
From official exam board websites to well-known revision platforms and teacher-led YouTube channels, these sources can support lesson planning, homework setting, intervention work and independent revision throughout years 12 and 13.
Official exam boards
For total confidence that the A-level maths practice papers you’re using with your students are authentic, accurate and relevant to your exam board’s specifications, you can always go straight to the source.
On each major examination board’s website, you can find and download:
AQA past papers and mark schemes
Pearson Edexcel past papers and mark schemes
OCR question papers, mark schemes and examiners’ reports
Going directly to the relevant exam board could also help you find other materials that might come in useful, such as Pearson Edexcel’s full A-level maths specification.
Online collections of A-level maths past papers
Navigating through the extensive library of resources available directly from examination boards might not be the most time-efficient approach. Fortunately, there are lots of websites that bring together A-level maths exam papers from various boards, so you can find everything you need in one place.
Maths Genie
Maths Genie is a familiar name to lots of teachers and it provides no-nonsense access to a deep library of A-level maths mark schemes and papers.
The website has a dedicated A-level papers section, broken down into:
Edexcel
AQA
OCR
OCR MEI
It also provides access to other useful materials including grade boundaries and formula books.
MME Revise
Like Maths Genie, MME Revise features an A-level maths past papers section that is categorised by exam board, making it easy to find exactly what you’re looking for.
Once you’ve clicked through to the relevant page, the question papers and mark schemes are freely available to view and download in PDF format.
MME Revise also offers predicted papers with unique questions designed to be used as A-level maths revision resources, but these have to be purchased.
Physics & Maths Tutor
Physics & Maths Tutor is a platform for students to access tuition and revision courses, but it also houses a large collection of resources including A-level maths past papers sorted by exam board.
Under each board, you’ll find useful materials including question papers, mark schemes and model answers covering pure maths, statistics and mechanics.
The Edexcel past papers collection also includes in-depth video solutions that are free to view.
YouTube resources
If you want to mix up your approach and point students towards resources they might find more engaging than A-level maths practice papers and mark schemes, YouTube could be a good place to start.
Bicen Maths
Bicen Maths is a YouTube channel run by Seb Bicen, who has been teaching maths since 2010. He’s built up a collection of nearly 1,500 videos, which have attracted more than 25 million views.
His videos cover a wide range of Edexcel A-level maths topics, including his instant reactions to these exam papers from 2025:
Pure maths paper 1
Pure maths paper 2
Statistics and mechanics paper
Students looking for help with revision and exam preparation can find plenty more useful resources on Bicen Maths, including videos focusing on using the Casio fx-CG100 for A-level maths and playlists dedicated to topics such as trigonometry and quadratics.
1st Class Maths
A-level maths students can visit 1st Class Maths on YouTube to access a library of around 300 videos, which have racked up more than 20 million views. The channel currently has over 200,000 subscribers.
While a lot of the content focuses on GCSE maths, year 12 and 13 students can find plenty of useful videos covering, among other topics:
An AQA further maths practice paper
Binomial distributions
Hypothesis testing
Discrete random variables
Probability
1st Class Maths also offer dedicated A-level statistics and mechanics playlists on their YouTube channel.
Supporting A-level maths exam readiness
A-level maths past papers play a key role in effective exam preparation, helping students understand question styles and marking expectations.
From a teaching perspective, knowing exactly where to find official exam board papers, trusted revision platforms, video walkthroughs and other resources should help you support your classes all the way up to their exams.
If you’re looking for more materials and guidance specifically related to calculator use for revision and exams, visit the Casio resources centre.
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