OCR A-Level Maths Resources:
As well as your OCR past papers and mark schemes, I highly recommend you use the Madas Maths papers below as part of your revision. They are excellent exam preparation, and will consolidate all the basic concepts and standard exam questions, help you recognise the different ways the same question can be asked, but also, there are many questions designed to develop your problem solving skills and gain the deeper understanding of the syllabus required to get to A* level. I have used these papers as part of the tuition process with all of my A-Level students for many years, and with most of those students going on to achieve A*, I cant recommend them enough! If you’re able to work through most of the Madas Maths papers then you’ll find the OCR papers well within your capabilities.
Another invaluable resource are the OCR text books, with lots of worked examples, hints and tips, and a range of basic, problem solving and exam questions on each section of each topic, to check that you understand everything you should have from that chapter, and at that end of each chapter, a summary of key points, which form an good revision checklist.
- Use the exercises from the OCR text books, as you finish each topic at school/college, to check you’ve understood everything.
- When you finish each of the four sections of the course (AS pure, A2 Pure, Statistics, Mechanics) move on to the Madas maths papers below for that section.
- Once its closer to your exam, move from the Madas maths papers to your OCR current syllabus past papers, also below.
- Go into your exam confident of the highest grade possible.
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OCR Current Syllabus (first taught 2017):
June 2018 A Level
| Paper 1: Pure Mathematics | Question Paper | Examiners Report | Answer Booklet | |
| Paper 2: Pure & Statistics | Question Paper | Mark Scheme | Examiners Report | Answer Booklet |
| Paper 3: Pure & Mechanics | Question Paper | Mark Scheme | Examiners Report | Answer Booklet |
June 2018 AS Level
| Paper 1: Pure & Statistics | Question Paper | Mark Scheme | Examiners Report | Answer Booklet |
| Paper 2: Pure & Mechanics | Question Paper | Mark Scheme | Examiners Report | Answer Booklet |
June 2019 A Level
| Paper 1: Pure Mathematics | Question Paper | Mark Scheme | Examiners Report | Answer Booklet |
| Paper 2: Pure & Statistics | Question Paper | Mark Scheme | Examiners Report | Answer Booklet |
| Paper 3: Pure & Mechanics | Question Paper | Mark Scheme | Examiners Report | Answer Booklet |
June 2019 AS Level
| Paper 1: Pure & Statistics | Question Paper — Erratum | Mark Scheme | Examiners Report | Answer Booklet |
| Paper 2: Pure & Mechanics | Question Paper | Mark Scheme | Examiners Report | Answer Booklet |
Oct 2020 A Level
| Paper 1: Pure Mathematics | ||||
| Paper 2: Pure & Statistics | QP | MS | ER | AB |
| Paper 3: Pure & Mechanics | QP | MS | ER | AB |
Oct 2020 AS Level
| Paper 1: Pure & Statistics | Question Paper | Mark Scheme | Examiners Report | Answer Booklet |
| Paper 2: Pure & Mechanics | Question Paper | Mark Scheme | Examiners Report | Answer Booklet |
QP – Question Paper
MS – Mark Scheme
ER – Examiners Report
AB – Answer Booklet
October 2020 A Level
| Paper 1: Pure & Maths | Paper 2: Pure & Statistics | Paper 3: Pure & Mechanics |
| QP | ||
| MS | ||
| ER | ||
| AB |
October 2020 AS Level
| Paper 1: Pure & Statistics | Paper 2: Pure & Mechanics |
Nov 2021 A Level
| Paper 1: Pure Mathematics | Question Paper | Mark Scheme | Examiners Report | Answer Booklet |
| Paper 2: Pure & Statistics | Question Paper | Mark Scheme | Examiners Report | Answer Booklet |
| Paper 3: Pure & Mechanics | Question Paper | Mark Scheme | Examiners Report | Answer Booklet |
Nov 2021 AS Level
| Paper 1: Pure & Statistics | Question Paper | Mark Scheme | Answer Booklet | |
| Paper 2: Pure & Mechanics | Question Paper | Mark Scheme | Answer Booklet |
June 2022 A Level
| Paper 1: Pure Mathematics | Question Paper | Mark Scheme | Examiners Report | Answer Booklet |
| Paper 2: Pure & Statistics | Question Paper | Mark Scheme | Examiners Report | Answer Booklet |
| Paper 3: Pure & Mechanics | Question Paper | Mark Scheme | Examiners Report | Answer Booklet |
June 2022 AS Level
| Paper 1: Pure & Statistics | Question Paper | Mark Scheme | Examiners Report | Answer Booklet |
| Paper 2: Pure & Mechanics | Question Paper | Mark Scheme | Examiners Report | Answer Booklet |
The 2023 papers are still locked on the Edexcel website so that schools can use them for mock exams. If your school has not used these for mocks, then you should ask your school teacher for access to these papers.
The Madas Maths papers increase in difficulty from A to Z and each have well written model solutions for you to check your anwers and learn and revise from when you get stuck. I’d suggest you start working through as many of these as papers as you can, as soon as you finish each section of the course (Year 1 pure, year 2 pure, statistics, mechanics), before moving on to your OCR past papers closer to your exam.
The Madas Maths papers are excellent exam preparation, and will consolidate all the basic concepts and standard exam questions, help you recognise the different ways the same question can be asked, but also, there are many questions designed to develop your problem solving skills and gain the deeper understanding of the syllabus required to get to A* level. If you’re able to work through most of the Madas Maths papers you’ll find the OCR papers well within your capabilities.
MP1 Papers
(Year 1/AS Level Pure Maths)
(Year 2/A2 Level Pure Maths)
(Year 1 and Year 2 Applied Maths combined
Each paper is split in two, half Statistics, half Mechanics)
(Year 1 and Year 2 Pure Maths combined)