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IGCSE Chinese past papers and mark schemes

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Cambridge IGCSE Chinese

0547 ยท 2003 to 2026

Edexcel IGCSE Chinese

4CN1 ยท 2011 to 2025

OxfordAQA IGCSE Chinese

9263

No OxfordAQA IGCSE Chinese papers in the archive yet. The OxfordAQA page โ€บ carries the specification, the papers you sit and the years examined.

The boards

About IGCSE Chinese

Not sure which board? Look at the front of any past paper. It names the board and carries a code: 0547 is Cambridge, 4CN1 is Edexcel and 9263 is OxfordAQA.

Cambridge (0547), Edexcel (4CN1) and OxfordAQA (9263) set International GCSE Chinese, and the code is printed on the front of your paper. Each board below shows its newest papers and its questions by topic; the board's own page holds the full list.

Also 0509, 0523

Grade boundaries

Also 4CN0

6,000 a year

At a glance

382papers from 3 exam boards, June 2003 to June 2026.
1,273documents - question papers, mark schemes and examiner reports.

International GCSE Chinese is examined in June and November. Each board's own page holds its full list, back to its first exam.

Memes

Certified Chinese memes. Peer-reviewed by nobody.

Laugh now. Then pick your board and do a past paper.

Learn the stroke order
Draw it how it looks and pray
Me facing a character I've seen once
Knowing โ€˜ni haoโ€™
Getting the tones right
Writing characters in stroke order
Hearing the audio and knowing which โ€˜shiโ€™ it is
Chinese enlightenment, ranked

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Six characters. Two of them right.