AQA A-Level Maths Past Papers.

Every official AQA A-Level (7357) and AS (7356) Maths question paper and mark scheme — free, up to and including June 2025. QP = question paper, MS = mark scheme. Scroll past the papers for how to use them.

Specification: Official AQA A-Level Maths (7357) specification (PDF) — the exact syllabus every paper below assesses.

A-Level · 7357

Exam seriesPaper 1Paper 2Paper 3
June 2025QP·MSQP·MSQP·MS
June 2024QP·MSQP·MSQP·MS
June 2023QP·MSQP·MSQP·MS
June 2022QP·MSQP·MSQP·MS
Nov 2021QP·MSQP·MSQP·MS
Nov 2020QP·MSQP·MSQP·MS
June 2019QP·MSQP·MSQP·MS
June 2018QP·MSQP·MSQP·MS

2020 & 2021: summer exams were cancelled (COVID-19); the autumn replacement series are included above. November 2025 and June 2026 remain restricted to exam centres and will be added on release.

AS · 7356

Exam seriesPaper 1Paper 2
June 2025QP·MSQP·MS
June 2024QP·MSQP·MS
June 2023QP·MSQP·MS
June 2022QP·MSQP·MS
Nov 2021QP·MSQP·MS
Nov 2020QP·MSQP·MS
June 2019QP·MSQP·MS
June 2018QP·MSQP·MS

All papers and mark schemes are © AQA. This page hosts no exam-board files. The 2018–2023 series and part of June 2024 link to AQA directly; the rest of June 2024 and all of June 2025 link to the identical official PDFs mirrored by Physics & Maths Tutor, because AQA moved those files to addresses that cannot be derived and has not published the 2025 series openly.

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How to actually use past papers.

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Topic first, then whole papers

Early on, don't sit full papers — pull questions by topic across many years until each topic is solid. Whole papers come once the foundations hold.

Then sit complete papers under timing

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Mark ruthlessly with the official mark scheme

Mark your own work against the real mark scheme. Learn where the method (M) marks sit and how examiners award them — present working so you bank marks even when an answer slips.

Redo everything you dropped

A few days later, redo every question you lost marks on — from scratch, not just reading the solution. The redo is where the grade actually moves.

The exam at a glance

AQA A-Level Maths papers.

Three papers

AQA assesses A-Level Maths (7357) across three 2-hour papers, each worth 100 marks. Any content — pure, mechanics or statistics — can appear on any of the three papers.

Pure, Mechanics & Statistics

The full course covers pure mathematics, mechanics and statistics, including the AQA large data set used in the statistics questions.

AS (7356)

Standalone AS Maths is two papers and a good gentler starting point for Year 12 — the content is a subset of the full A-Level.

FAQ

AQA A-Level past papers — common questions.

Yes — these are the real AQA papers, not practice material. Most link to AQA's own website; the newest series link to identical copies mirrored by Physics & Maths Tutor, because AQA has not published those openly yet. The papers are © AQA, so we link to them rather than host copies.
Summer exams in 2020 and 2021 were cancelled due to COVID-19. AQA ran autumn replacement series instead (included above).
7357 is the full A-Level (three papers). 7356 is the standalone AS qualification (two papers) — a good starting point for Year 12 students.
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