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OCR GCSE Maths past papers

90 OCR GCSE Maths (J560) papers from 15 series, June 2017 to June 2025, with mark schemes and examiner reports. Each series opens OCR’s past papers page for J560, where you pick the paper.

What is free: OCR first gives each series to schools for mock exams. About 14 months after the exam, it goes on OCR’s public site and stays there for at least five years, and longer for maths and science.

What is held back: Until then, the most recent series are for teachers only, on OCR’s Teach Cambridge site.

June 2025

  • Paper 1 (Foundation) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 2 (Foundation) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 3 (Foundation) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 4 (Higher) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 5 (Higher) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 6 (Higher) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report

Open the June 2025 papers on OCR’s website

November 2024

  • Paper 1 (Foundation) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 2 (Foundation) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 3 (Foundation) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 4 (Higher) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 5 (Higher) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 6 (Higher) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report

Open the November 2024 papers on OCR’s website

June 2024

  • Paper 1 (Foundation) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 2 (Foundation) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 3 (Foundation) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 4 (Higher) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 5 (Higher) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 6 (Higher) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report

Open the June 2024 papers on OCR’s website

November 2023

  • Paper 1 (Foundation) Question paperInsertMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 2 (Foundation) Question paperInsertMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 3 (Foundation) Question paperInsertMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 4 (Higher) Question paperInsertMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 5 (Higher) Question paperInsertMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 6 (Higher) Question paperInsertMark schemeExaminer report

Open the November 2023 papers on OCR’s website

June 2023

  • Paper 1 (Foundation) Question paperInsertMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 2 (Foundation) Question paperInsertMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 3 (Foundation) Question paperInsertMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 4 (Higher) Question paperInsertMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 5 (Higher) Question paperInsertMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 6 (Higher) Question paperInsertMark schemeExaminer report

Open the June 2023 papers on OCR’s website

November 2022

  • Paper 1 (Foundation) Question paperInsertMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 2 (Foundation) Question paperInsertMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 3 (Foundation) Question paperInsertMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 4 (Higher) Question paperInsertMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 5 (Higher) Question paperInsertMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 6 (Higher) Question paperInsertMark schemeExaminer report

Open the November 2022 papers on OCR’s website

June 2022

  • Paper 1 (Foundation) Question paperInsertMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 2 (Foundation) Question paperInsertMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 3 (Foundation) Question paperInsertMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 4 (Higher) Question paperInsertMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 5 (Higher) Question paperInsertMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 6 (Higher) Question paperInsertMark schemeExaminer report

Open the June 2022 papers on OCR’s website

November 2021

  • Paper 1 (Foundation) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 2 (Foundation) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 3 (Foundation) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 4 (Higher) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 5 (Higher) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 6 (Higher) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report

Open the November 2021 papers on OCR’s website

November 2020

  • Paper 1 (Foundation) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 2 (Foundation) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 3 (Foundation) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 4 (Higher) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 5 (Higher) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 6 (Higher) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report

Open the November 2020 papers on OCR’s website

November 2019

  • Paper 1 (Foundation) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 2 (Foundation) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 3 (Foundation) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 4 (Higher) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 5 (Higher) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 6 (Higher) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report

Open the November 2019 papers on OCR’s website

June 2019

  • Paper 1 (Foundation) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 2 (Foundation) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 3 (Foundation) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 4 (Higher) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 5 (Higher) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 6 (Higher) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report

Open the June 2019 papers on OCR’s website

November 2018

  • Paper 1 (Foundation) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 2 (Foundation) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 3 (Foundation) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 4 (Higher) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 5 (Higher) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 6 (Higher) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report

Open the November 2018 papers on OCR’s website

June 2018

  • Paper 1 (Foundation) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 2 (Foundation) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 3 (Foundation) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 4 (Higher) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 5 (Higher) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report
  • Paper 6 (Higher) Question paperMark schemeExaminer report

Open the June 2018 papers on OCR’s website

November 2017

  • Paper 1 (Foundation) Question paperMark scheme
  • Paper 2 (Foundation) Question paperMark scheme
  • Paper 3 (Foundation) Question paperMark scheme
  • Paper 4 (Higher) Question paperMark scheme
  • Paper 5 (Higher) Question paperMark scheme
  • Paper 6 (Higher) Question paperMark scheme

Open the November 2017 papers on OCR’s website

June 2017

  • Paper 1 (Foundation) Question paperMark scheme
  • Paper 2 (Foundation) Question paperMark scheme
  • Paper 3 (Foundation) Question paperMark scheme
  • Paper 4 (Higher) Question paperMark scheme
  • Paper 5 (Higher) Question paperMark scheme
  • Paper 6 (Higher) Question paperMark scheme

Open the June 2017 papers on OCR’s website

See everything for J560 on OCR’s website

What the Maths exam contains

OCR GCSE Mathematics (J560) has three papers for each tier, each 1 hour 30 minutes and 100 marks. Foundation students sit Papers 1, 2 and 3 (grades 1 to 5); Higher students sit Papers 4, 5 and 6 (grades 4 to 9). Papers 2 and 5 are sat without a calculator; the others allow one. Any paper can test number, algebra, ratio and proportion, geometry, probability and statistics.

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