Official Cambridge papers, mark schemes and reports are some of the most useful study material you can find. They are also someone else’s material. This page explains who controls access, how to use papers sensibly, and why the practice on this site is written from scratch.
We are a tuition team, not an exam centre. We do not control access to papers, and we do not republish them. We point you to the official source.
Who is responsible for what?
- Cambridge owns its papers, mark schemes and reports and sets the terms for using them. Current terms appear on its official pages.
- Your school or exam centre decides what past-paper access it gives its own students.
- You use papers for your own study and respect the terms of wherever you got them.
- Your teacher here can set original practice and help you review your own working. We do not supply Cambridge papers.
Where should you get papers from?
Start with your school or exam centre, then the official Cambridge subject page for your code. Use the Cambridge IGCSE catalogue to find the page, and read what it says about resources and any access requirements. What is available can change, and some materials may need a centre login, so ask your centre rather than assuming.
A useful test before you download from any other site: does it say where the paper came from, and does it say it has permission to host it? If neither is clear, go to the official page instead.
What should you avoid?
- Reposting full papers or mark schemes on a website, blog, social group or shared drive unless the source clearly allows it.
- Selling or bundling papers into a product, including a revision pack.
- Treating unofficial “predicted papers” as official. Nobody outside Cambridge knows what will be set, and this site does not make predictions.
- Sharing answers during an assessment. See using study tools while preserving authorship.
If you are unsure about a specific use, ask your centre, or check the official Cambridge terms.
How do you get the most from a paper?
A paper is most useful as a diagnostic, not a pile to be finished.
- Do it timed, in one sitting, without notes.
- Mark it with the official mark scheme, line by line.
- Label each lost mark: misread question, method gap, careless slip, knowledge gap or time.
- Choose one label that cost the most and practise it with fresh questions.
- Return to the paper later and redo only the questions you lost marks on.
The original mixed-practice builder on this site creates practice from our own reviewed questions. It does not scrape past papers and does not predict the exam.
A short worked example
A student finishes a timed paper and labels her errors: two misread questions, five method gaps on ratio, one careless slip. Instead of starting another full paper, she sets aside the ratio gaps. She works through fresh ratio questions, then retries the original ratio questions a week later.
A full paper after that shows the same three ratio questions are now secure. She spent her time on the one cause that mattered.
Where does tuition fit in?
We do not hand out papers, but a teacher can review your marked paper with you, find the pattern in your errors and write original questions for that pattern. See the resources section, read how the paid trial works, and for the split of duties see tuition versus exam registration.