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Past exams

Real final-year physics exams, exactly as students sat them: 6 years, 214 questions. Time yourself, answer the multiple choice and get it marked, then check your written answers against the official marking guide.

From the Queensland Certificate of Education (Australia): mechanics, electromagnetism, special relativity, quantum theory and the Standard Model.

Formula and data book (PDF)Students get it in the exam room, so keep it open.

Where the exams come from

These are the official external exams for Physics in the Queensland Certificate of Education, set and published by the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority (QCAA). QCAA licenses its past papers and marking guides CC BY 4.0, so anyone may reuse them, including commercially, with credit (QCAA copyright notice). We cut each paper into questions; the questions, the multiple-choice answers and the marking guides are QCAA's, unchanged. The originals are on the QCAA website. QCAA doesn't endorse or have any connection with this site.

Most other official exams (AP, IB, A-levels, ENEM, the olympiads) don't allow commercial reuse, so they aren't here.