exam.now is answering right now. Last checked 13 min ago. It exposes 11 tools.
Cambridge, AQA and Edexcel past papers: questions, figures and mark schemes by part, and marking.
Uptime history
8 days of history
8 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
11
Tools
read from the server
384 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http
What changed 5
Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 3 November 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.
3 Nov
4 tool descriptions were rewritten
find_past_paper, get_paper, get_question and 1 more
3 Nov
a tool changed the parameters it asks for
mark_answer
Nothing serious here today
Today is the operative word: we check exam.now every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.
Connect this server
Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 13 min ago.
run in your terminal
claude mcp add past-papers --transport http https://exam.now/mcpSettings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://exam.now/mcp~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.past-papers]
url = "https://exam.now/mcp".cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"past-papers": {
"url": "https://exam.now/mcp"
}
}
}.vscode/mcp.json
{
"servers": {
"past-papers": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://exam.now/mcp"
}
}
}Available tools 11
Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on.
If a tool disappears, we record the date.
mark
get_mark_scheme
The official mark-scheme rows for one part of an exam.now past paper: each row's code (M1, A1, B1…), marks, answer, guidance and alternatives, the part's maximum marks, the paper's general marking principles, the mark-scheme PDF page and a link to it on exam.now.
mark_answer
Mark a student's answer to one part against the official mark scheme with exam.now's marker. Returns marks awarded and available, the mark-scheme rows earned and missed, feedback and a common-mistake link, and saves the mark to the student's exam.now progress. Needs a linked exam.now account with marking.
class
class_summary
For a teacher's own exam.now class: topic bands across the class with no pupil names, and how many pupils have started. Small groups are suppressed to protect pupils' privacy.
common
common_mistakes
Up to 5 exam.now write-ups of common mistakes in a subject, drawn from Cambridge examiner reports, each with a short summary and a link. Narrow them with a topic code or words.
exam
exam_timetable
Cambridge exam dates for one or more syllabuses in the June or November 2026 series: component, date, morning or afternoon session and duration, with a link to the exam.now timetable. Zone defaults to the UK timetable.
paper
get_paper
An exam.now past paper as structured JSON (metadata, questions, parts, prompts, marks, answer kinds, figure URLs), a few questions at a time. Each part's answer.onSite is true when it needs a graph or drawing and can only be answered on exam.now; the other parts can be typed in chat for mark_answer. Use next_from to get the next page. include_mark_scheme adds the mark-scheme rows for the same questions and needs a linked exam.now account (a free one is fine).
past
find_past_paper
Find Cambridge, AQA or Edexcel past papers on exam.now from a free-text query such as "0580 june 2024 paper 4" or from structured fields. Returns up to 10 papers with their exam.now paper_id, title, session, duration, total marks, whether exam.now can show it on screen to answer (answer_on_screen, with the parts that need a graph or drawing and so can only be answered there), and links to the question paper, insert, mark scheme and examiner report where they exist. Use the paper_id with get_question, get_mark_scheme or get_paper.
practise
practise_question
Show one past-paper question as a practice card the student can answer, with its figures and answer surface. The model gets the full question so it can give hints without giving the answer away. Use mark_answer to mark the student's answer.
question
get_question
The text of one question or part from an exam.now past paper: context, prompt, marks, figures (with alt text), the answer surface (response kinds, tools, whether a calculator is allowed), topic codes and a link to the part on exam.now. answer.onSite is true when the part needs a graph or drawing, so it can only be answered on exam.now; otherwise the student can type the answer in chat and mark_answer marks it. Pass question for the whole question or part for one part.
questions
find_questions_by_topic
Past-paper questions on exam.now tagged with a syllabus topic, newest first. Pass the topic code (e.g. E2.5) or words (e.g. "simultaneous equations"). Returns question references with the start of each prompt, marks, whether it has a figure, and a link to the question.
topic
topic_progress
The linked student's own progress in one subject on exam.now: each syllabus topic's band (secure, getting there, not yet), the next three topics to work on (weak topics first, then topics with too few marks to band and untried topics that are ready to start, each with a reason) and links to practise them.
Endpoints
| URL | Transport | State | Latency | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://exam.now/mcp | streamable-http | answering | 352 ms | 13 min ago |
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exam.now — questions
Answers built from our own checks of this server.
What can exam.now do?
It exposes 11 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: class_summary, common_mistakes, exam_timetable, find_past_paper, find_questions_by_topic, get_mark_scheme and 5 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README.
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Is exam.now working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 384 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect exam.now?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does exam.now need an API key?
No. exam.now completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 11 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is exam.now?
It answers our handshake in 384 ms on average, which is faster than 34% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.