The large data set: OCR MEI A‑Level Maths questions

OCR MEI A-Level Maths past-paper questions on 1.2 The large data set, 2018–2025, with mark schemes and examiner’s reports where available. Add MadAsMaths questions to your practice, or browse them separately by topic and difficulty.

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June 2025, Paper 2, Q10 (5 marks): The pre-release material contains information about life expectancy at birth for countries of the world at 10-year intervals from 1960 until 2020. The life expe
June 2025, AS Paper 2, Q4 (2 marks): The pre-release material contains data for percentage employment rates in different areas of England. The diagram shows percentage employment rates between 2008
June 2024, Paper 2, Q14 (8 marks): The pre-release material contains medical data for 103 women and 97 men. The boxplot represents the weights in kg of 101 of the women from the pre-release mater
June 2024, AS Paper 2, Q10 (6 marks): The pre-release material contains information about the birth rate per 1000 people in different countries of the world. These countries have been classified int
June 2023, Paper 2, Q9 (5 marks): The pre-release material contains information concerning the median income of taxpayers in different areas of London. Some of the data for Camden is shown in th
June 2023, Paper 2, Q14 (8 marks): The pre-release material contains information concerning the median income of taxpayers in £ and the percentage of all pupils at the end of KS4 achieving 5 or m
June 2023, AS Paper 2, Q8 (4 marks): The pre-release material contains information on Pulse Rate and Body Mass Index (BMI). A student is investigating whether there is a relationship between pulse
June 2022, Paper 2, Q15 (9 marks): The pre-release material includes information on life expectancy at birth in countries of the world. Fig. 15.1 shows the data for Liberia, which is in Africa, t
June 2022, AS Paper 2, Q6 (6 marks): The pre-release material contains information about employment rates in London boroughs. The graph shows employment rates for Westminster between 2006 and 2019.
June 2022, AS Paper 2, Q11 (9 marks): The pre-release material contains information about the Median Income of Taxpayers and the Percentage of Pupils Achieving at Least 5 A*– C grades, including Eng
November 2021, Paper 2, Q12 (7 marks): Fig. 12.1 shows an excerpt from the pre-release material. A B C D E F G H 1 Sex Age Marital Weight Height BMI Waist Pulse 2 Female 34 Married 60.3 173.4 20.05 8
November 2021, AS Paper 2, Q9 (5 marks): Arun, Beth and Charlie are investigating whether there is any association between death rate per 1000 and physician density per 1000. They each collect a random
November 2020, Paper 2, Q11 (10 marks): The pre-release material contains information concerning median house prices over the period 2004 – 2015. A spreadsheet has been used to generate a time series
November 2020, AS Paper 2, Q10 (9 marks): Fig. 10.1 shows a sample collected from the large data set. mass of person in kilograms BMI is defined as square of person’s height in metres. Sex Age in years
June 2019, Paper 2, Q14 (8 marks): The pre-release material includes data concerning crude death rates in different countries of the world. Fig. 14.1 shows some information concerning crude death
June 2019, AS Paper 2, Q6 (13 marks): The large data set gives information about life expectancy at birth for males and females in different London boroughs. Fig. 6.1 shows summary statistics for fe
June 2018, Paper 2, Q14 (9 marks): The pre-release material includes data on unemployment rates in different countries. A sample from this material has been taken. All the countries in the sample

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