Cambridge IGCSE Past Exam Papers

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Cambridge IGCSE past exam papers are now updated up to March 2025 examination series. Year 2026 Specimen papers are now available.

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Cambridge IGCSE is being offered by CAIE (Cambridge Assessment International Education) board from The University of Cambridge. These Cambridge IGCSE past exam papers are copyrighted by UCLES.

  • Updated up to March 2025 series past exam papers. YAY!
  • 2027 Specimen papers are now available.
  • “Specimen Papers” would be available when there is a change of syllabus for that year. Otherwise, “Specimen Papers” would not be available when the syllabus stays the same.
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  1. hello! how do you consider the special needs kids who have sat their final exams igcse in terms of marking and grading just because of their (disability)?

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  2. Hi, can I have the link for economics past year papers? Unfortunately other website providers require me download one-by-one which seems to be very tedious, whereas if I have the Google drive link i can directly download all at once. Hopefully IGCSE Centre will understand this. Thank you!

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    • Hi Kevin,

      Thank you for appreciating our effort. Unfortunately, we are not able to share the files since our Google Drive has become redundant, and all the files are no longer publicly accessible, even to people who have the link. We are currently working on a new platform. Kindly join our newsletter for the announcement.

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      • Hi Frederic,

        Directed writing tips:
        – For this question, you will need to put yourself into role, and address your audience directly. The opening needs to introduce clearly the situation and purpose of the task, and will be rewarded if it puts the reader in the picture.
        – Your answer will not be in the same genre as the passage, and should therefore be in a different style from it.
        – The recommended structure for the response will be offered in the wording of the question, and you should follow this.
        – There will be at least two factors to focus on – for example advantages and disadvantages. You will need to make two lists before you start in order to make sure you have enough material for both sides of the question.
        – The third element of this question is evaluation; you will have to decide which of the options is better, present reasons why you have formed this opinion and justify it.
        – Though you cannot make up things which are not in the passages, you should try to use your own ideas in the way that you extend those of the passages, provided that they are ‘based on the reading material’
        – The ending needs to be definite and provide an effective and satisfying conclusion to the piece

        Descriptive composition tips:
        – To write a strong descriptive answer you will need to use a wide range of vocabulary and even use imagery to engage reader interest. Unless the readers can see the picture they will not be able to relate to the experience
        – You will need to evoke all five senses to create an environment and atmosphere, as well as details of size, shape and colour.
        – Try to avoid common, overused, vague, short and childish vocabulary, such as ‘nice’, ‘big’, ‘little’, ‘a lot of’, ‘good’, and ‘bad’.
        – Descriptive compositions must not become a narrative, which means character and event should not take over or be dominant.

        Narrative composition tips:
        – Decide on a tense and then stick to it; do not jump between present and past. The normal narrative tense is past and those who try to write in the present usually forget to do so after a while, so it is safer to start off in the past.
        – Know what your last sentence is going to be before you write your first. A narrative has to build up to a climax and lead towards a conclusion which is planned before it starts or it will end lamely or incomprehensibly, or the pace will be too slow or too fast.
        – Don’t try to do too much; you can’t cover many events and many years in one short composition. Select key moments and skip over the rest, changing the pace according to the intensity of the moment.
        – If you do use dialogue, find synonyms for ‘he said/she said’
        – Use plenty of interesting details to engage your reader and make them want to read on.
        – End your narrative deliberately. Stories need a conclusion, where things are either resolved or purposely left unresolved as a cliff-hanger (though on the whole readers prefer to know how a story ended). You must not give the impression that you just stopped writing because you ran out of time, ink or ideas.

        Hope this helps.

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  4. Hi IGCSE team,

    I am doing IGCSEs right now and my teacher told me something about student support, When i went to cie.org.uk there wasnt any student support. please help me

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    • Hu Nummy,

      You can revise the subjects from the beginning. Highlight the important facts that you think could be on the test (you should refer to the latest syllabus on what is expected during exams here: https://www.igcsecentre.com/cambridge-igcse-subjects-syllabuses/). You can then use the past exam papers as your revision. Start with the latest papers as they have the newest syllabus format and continue with the older ones date back from 5 to 10 years. Then, revise on the most common mistakes that you always seem to make. Pay attention to the most common mistakes you always seem to make. Make notes and revise them, so you can avoid making the same mistakes in your actual exam.

      Our library of resources is unavailable at the moment. Kindly search for alternative sources of past papers. Thank you for your understanding.

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