Free GCSE Biology past papers and mark schemes for AQA, Edexcel, OCR. Download free PDFs and check your answers.
We list GCSE Biology papers for AQA, Edexcel, OCR. Choose your exam board to see each paper with its mark scheme.
Papers differ between boards, so use the board you are entered for. Your teacher can tell you which one that is.
Minimum total raw marks across all the papers at each tier. Boundaries change every series, so use them as a rough guide when you mark an older paper.
Minimum total raw marks across all the papers at each tier. Boundaries change every series, so use them as a rough guide when you mark an older paper.
Minimum total raw marks across all the papers at each tier. Match the specification code on your entry. Boundaries change every series, so use them as a rough guide when you mark an older paper.
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Go through the mark scheme, write down the topics where you dropped marks, and look those up in the Biology revision notes before you try another paper.
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No. They are for separate GCSE Biology. Combined Science is a different course with its own papers, specification code and grade boundaries, so use the Combined Science papers if that is the course you are sitting.
Your school chooses your tier when it enters you, so check with your teacher. In the June 2026 AQA, Edexcel and OCR tables, Foundation awarded grades 5 to 1 and Higher grades 9 to 3. Practise papers at the tier you will sit: Foundation and Higher papers are different.
Sit a complete set: both papers at your tier from the same series, timed and without notes. Keep the most recent full set unseen for this, and use older papers for topic practice first. Grade boundaries change every series, so treat any boundary as a rough guide, not a predicted grade.
Use the official mark scheme listed next to each paper. Check that the series, paper number and tier all match: Foundation and Higher papers from the same series have different mark schemes.
Identify exactly what the question asks you to explain. Connect the relevant scientific cause, process and outcome, using precise terms. Compare the reasoning in your answer with the marking guidance rather than adding disconnected keywords.
Practise explaining methods, identifying variables, interpreting results and evaluating evidence where these are required by your specification. Review the practical activities in your course and connect each method to the scientific idea being tested.