Pearson Edexcel GCSE Chemistry past papers

This page links every Chemistry paper Pearson Edexcel publishes for everyone to download, newest first, starting with June 2025. Each link opens the PDF on Pearson Edexcel's own website. The most recent series is usually released a year or so after the exam, and it will appear here once Pearson Edexcel makes it public.

Yes, every question paper here has a mark scheme, and 24 have an examiner report as well, which is worth reading for the mistakes that cost the most marks.

In June 2026, a grade 4 needed 118 out of 200 on the Foundation tier. On the Higher tier, a grade 7 needed 127 out of 200 and a grade 4 needed 55. The grade boundaries for every series from June 2018 to June 2026 are on this course's grade boundaries page, and each series of papers here links to its own year's table, so you can mark a paper and read your grade.

It is linked at the top of this page: Pearson Edexcel's own Chemistry specification (1CH0), a PDF on its website, which sets out what you can be examined on and how the exams are marked. According to Edexcel's grade boundaries for June 2026, the course is examined in 2 papers on each of the Foundation and Higher tiers, of 100 marks each.

Once you have worked through the papers, cookie has a practice deck for this course with fresh questions based on the specification and past papers, feedback on what you write, and spaced repetition.

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