OCR GCSE Combined Science A (Gateway Science) past papers

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

Yes, 36 of the 110 question papers here have a mark scheme, and 77 have an examiner report as well, which is worth reading for the mistakes that cost the most marks.

In June 2026, a grade 4-4 needed 174 out of 360 on the Foundation tier. On the Higher tier, a grade 7-7 needed 222 out of 360 and a grade 4-4 needed 121. 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: OCR's own Combined Science A (Gateway Science) specification (J250), a PDF on its website, which sets out what you can be examined on and how the exams are marked.

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