STEP Questions Database

This database has questions from the 1986 Specimen papers to 2018. For more recent papers you can download these from the OCR STEP website. The "Topic" box will search for the main topic of the question (for example "inequalities", and the "Search" box will search for all the questions which have this topic somewhere in the question. If you search for "C1" in the topic box you will find the questions which do not need much A-level knowledge.

Browse the folder of past STEP papers. This folder contains all the STEP papers from 1987 to 2018, along with some of the markschemes and solutions (some of the older papers do not have mark schemes available).

1988

Step: 1

Question: 5 Binomial expansion (open as a page)

Question: 6 Complex Numbers (open as a page)

Question: 7 Quadratic function (open as a page)

Question: 8 Euclidean geometry (open as a page)

Question: 9 Integral (open as a page)

Question: 10 Projectile motion (open as a page)

Question: 11 Centre of mass (open as a page)

Question: 12 Equilibrium (open as a page)

Question: 13 Hooke's Law (open as a page)

Question: 14 Normal distribution (open as a page)

Question: 15 Probability distribution (open as a page)

Question: 16 Pdf (open as a page)

Step: 2

Question: 1 Binomial expansion (open as a page)

Question: 2 Quadratic equation (open as a page)

Question: 3 Polynomial equations (open as a page)

Question: 4 Complex Numbers (open as a page)

Question: 5 Trigonometry (open as a page)

Question: 6 Curve sketching (open as a page)

Question: 7 Integral (open as a page)

Question: 8 Differential equation (open as a page)

Question: 9 Groups (open as a page)

Question: 10 Vector geometry (open as a page)

Question: 11 Circular Motion (open as a page)

Question: 12 Inextensible string (open as a page)

Question: 13 Friction (open as a page)

Question: 14 SHM (open as a page)

Question: 15 Elementary probability (open as a page)

Question: 16 Normal distribution (open as a page)

Step: 3

Question: 1 Curve sketching (open as a page)

Question: 2 Difference equation (open as a page)

Question: 3 Complex number (open as a page)

Question: 4 Optimisation (open as a page)

Question: 5 Geometric sequence (open as a page)

Question: 6 Trigonometry (open as a page)

Question: 7 Differential equation (open as a page)

Question: 8 Coordinate geometry (open as a page)

Question: 9 Groups (open as a page)

Question: 10 Polar coordinates (open as a page)

Question: 11 Friction (open as a page)

Question: 12 Collision (open as a page)

Question: 13 Differential equation (open as a page)

Question: 14 Projectile motion (open as a page)

Question: 15 Difference equation (open as a page)

Question: 16 Combinatorics (open as a page)

1989

Step: 1

Question: 1 Euclidean geometry (open as a page)

Question: 2 Integration (open as a page)

Question: 3 Vector geometry (open as a page)

Question: 4 Euclidean geometry (open as a page)

Question: 5 Binomial expansion (open as a page)

Question: 6 Coordinate geometry (open as a page)

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