A full predicted exam set for the November 2026 session — Paper 1A, Paper 1B and Paper 2 at both standard and higher level — from a tutor who has taught IB Physics for ten years and knows exactly how these papers are built. Free to download, free to share.
This is my best prediction of what the November 2026 IB Physics exams will look like: a full set of papers — 1A, 1B and 2 — at both standard and higher level, every question brand new and written to the current syllabus.
I have taught IB Physics for ten years, and I understand this exam better than almost anyone. When I sat down with the papers the IB has set so far on the current syllabus, very clear patterns came through: the topics they keep coming back to, how the 20-mark questions are built, where the “show that” parts land, and how hard they are leaning on the new 2025 content. These papers are written to those patterns, so the exam you sit here should feel very like the one you sit in November.
Sit it under timed conditions a week or two before the real thing. The SL papers are the HL papers with the HL-only material removed, so sit one level, not both.
25 multiple-choice questions across every theme, A to E, in syllabus order.
Two data-analysis questions: the specific heat capacity of a metal block from a heating curve, and a mass on a spring linearised to find the spring constant. Same paper for SL and HL.
An infrared thermometer as a black body, a frost-alarm thermistor circuit, a charged particle in crossed fields, a child on a merry-go-round, and a 15-mark question that dates a meteorite and places its star on the HR diagram.
40 multiple-choice questions across every theme, A to E, including the HL-only material.
Two data-analysis questions: the specific heat capacity of a metal block from a heating curve, and a mass on a spring linearised to find the spring constant. Same paper for SL and HL.
Everything in the SL paper plus a Mars probe in orbit, a double slit and a standing wave, simultaneity on a spacetime diagram, electromagnetic induction, a heat-pump cycle, and two 20-mark questions.
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These are real IB-style mark schemes, not just answer lists: every marking point written out, the alternatives that are accepted, and examiner notes on the near misses that do not earn the mark. That last part is usually where the grades are.
Every practice paper I've published is on the free resources page, and one signup gets you the mark schemes for all of them.
If you'd like to work through any of it with me, the first conversation is free.