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).

2010

Step: 1

Question: 1 Simultaneous equations (open as a page)

Question: 2 Curve sketching (open as a page)

Question: 3 Trigonometry (open as a page)

Question: 4 Integration by substitution (open as a page)

Question: 5 Binomial coefficients (open as a page)

Question: 6 Differential equations (open as a page)

Question: 7 Vector geometry (open as a page)

Question: 8 Number theory (open as a page)

Question: 9 Friction (open as a page)

Question: 10 Time-displacement (open as a page)

Question: 11 Collision (open as a page)

Question: 12 Discrete random variables (open as a page)

Question: 13 Poisson distribution (open as a page)

Step: 2

Question: 1 Osculating circle (open as a page)

Question: 2 Integration (open as a page)

Question: 3 Fibonacci numbers (open as a page)

Question: 4 Integration by substitution (open as a page)

Question: 5 Vector geometry (open as a page)

Question: 6 Elementary geometry (open as a page)

Question: 7 Quadratic equation (open as a page)

Question: 8 Integration (open as a page)

Question: 9 Projectile motion (open as a page)

Question: 10 Collision (open as a page)

Question: 11 Equilibrium (open as a page)

Question: 12 Continuous random variable (open as a page)

Question: 13 Elementary probability (open as a page)

Step: 3

Question: 1 Sum (open as a page)

Question: 2 Integration (open as a page)

Question: 3 Complex Numbers (open as a page)

Question: 4 Quadratic equations (open as a page)

Question: 5 Coordinate geometry (open as a page)

Question: 6 Coordinate geometry (open as a page)

Question: 7 Maclaurin series (open as a page)

Question: 8 Integrating factors (open as a page)

Question: 9 Equilibrium (open as a page)

Question: 10 SHM (open as a page)

Question: 11 Friction force (open as a page)

Question: 12 Expectation (open as a page)

Question: 13 Corr (open as a page)

2011

Step: 1

Question: 1 Differentiation (open as a page)

Question: 2 Integrals (open as a page)

Question: 3 Trigonometry (open as a page)

Question: 4 Coordinate geometry (open as a page)

Question: 5 Analysis (open as a page)

Question: 6 Binomial expansion (open as a page)

Question: 7 Fluid dynamics (open as a page)

Question: 8 Number theory (open as a page)

Question: 9 Projectile motion (open as a page)

Question: 10 Collision (open as a page)

Question: 11 Equilibrium (open as a page)

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