Legal
These terms govern your use of pastlit.com. Reading past papers is free and needs no account; the terms below matter most if you create an account or buy a subscription.
Pastlit is operated by PASTLIT (SMC-PRIVATE) LIMITED, a single member private company incorporated in Pakistan under the Companies Act 2017 and based in Rawalpindi, Pakistan(“Pastlit”, “we”, “us”). You can reach us at hello@pastlit.com.
Pastlit is a study platform for Cambridge examinations. It has two parts:
By using pastlit.com you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the service.
Reading a paper, a mark scheme or a topical bank on Pastlit never requires an account and never will. We do not put content behind a login. Accounts exist to personalise the tools around the content, not to gate the content.
You can create an account as a student, a teacher or a parent. You are responsible for keeping your login secure and for everything done under your account. Give us accurate information and keep it current.
Under 13: you may not create an account. 13 to 17: you may create an account only with the knowledge and consent of a parent or guardian, who agrees to these terms on your behalf. Pastlit is built for students sitting Cambridge IGCSE, O Level and A Level examinations, who are typically 14 to 18; see our Privacy Policy for how we treat information about young people.
One person, one account. Do not share your account, and do not use anyone else’s. We may limit the number of devices or simultaneous sessions an account can use, and may suspend an account where we have reasonable grounds to believe it is being shared.
Paid plans and their prices are set out on the pricing page. Prices are in US dollars and are the same everywhere in the world.
Our payments are handled by Paddle. Paddle.com Market Limited and its affiliates (“Paddle”) act as the merchant of record: Paddle sells the subscription to you, takes the payment, issues the receipt, and applies any sales tax or VAT due where you live. Your card or bank statement will show a charge from Paddle (for example PADDLE.NET* PASTLIT). Paddle’s own buyer terms also apply to the transaction.
Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period — monthly or yearly, depending on the plan you chose — until you cancel. We will remind you by email before each yearly renewal, and we will give you at least 30 days’ notice before any price change takes effect on a renewal, so you can cancel first if you do not agree.
You can cancel at any time from the link in any Paddle receipt or by emailing us. Cancelling stops the next renewal; you keep access until the end of the period you have already paid for.
Our Refund Policy sets out when a payment is refundable — in short, a payment can be refunded within 14 days only if no paid feature has been used since it was made; otherwise purchases are final, and mistaken charges are always refunded. Nothing in these terms limits any statutory right to a refund you have under the law of the country you live in.
Teachers can build papers and share them with students by link. Results that students submit through a shared link are visible to the teacher who shared it.
Parents can be linked to a student’s account only when the student (or the parent, with the student’s acceptance) creates the link. A linked parent can see the student’s progress. Either side can remove the link at any time.
Content you create on Pastlit — papers you assemble, answers you write — remains yours. You give us the permission we need to store it, display it to you and to the people you choose to share it with, to mark it, and to produce anonymised, aggregated statistics (for example how many students answered a question correctly) that cannot identify you.
Referrals. We may reward you for referring other people to Pastlit — for example by unlocking a feature when someone you refer creates a verified account. Referral rewards have no cash value, cannot be transferred or exchanged, and are granted at our discretion. We may withhold or reverse a reward where we detect abuse, such as self-referral or accounts created only to trigger a reward, and we may change or end the referral programme at any time.
You agree not to:
We expressly reserve our rights in respect of text and data mining, including for the purposes of Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790. This reservation applies to the fullest extent the law allows.
Past question papers, mark schemes and examiner reports are the property of Cambridge Assessment International Education. Pastlit is an independent service and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Cambridge Assessment International Education or Cambridge University Press & Assessment. Cambridge’s materials are provided on Pastlit for personal study and classroom use, and remain subject to Cambridge’s own rights.
Everything else — the Pastlit name, the software, the way papers are assembled, the marking, the topical organisation and the design — belongs to Pastlit or its licensors. You may use it through the service as these terms allow, and not otherwise.
We work hard to keep Pastlit accurate and available, but we provide it “as is”. We do not promise that it will be uninterrupted or error-free, that automated marking will always agree with an examiner, or that any particular result in an examination will follow from using it.
Automated marks, model answers and explanations on Pastlit are our interpretation of a question and its mark scheme. They are a study aid, not an official or definitive answer, and may differ from what an examiner would award or from the method taught at your school. Check anything that matters against the examination board’s own published materials.
To the fullest extent the law allows, Pastlit’s total liability to you for anything arising out of the service is limited to the amount you paid for your subscription in the twelve months before the claim. We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss. Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot be excluded by law, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.
You can close your account at any time by emailing us. We can suspend or close an account that breaches these terms, and will tell you why unless the law prevents it. If a paid account is closed for breach, no refund is due for the remaining period. If we withdraw a paid feature entirely, we will tell you before your next renewal so you can decide whether to continue.
We may update these terms. If a change materially affects your rights, we will give reasonable notice by email or on the site before it takes effect. Continued use after the effective date is acceptance of the updated terms.
These terms are governed by the laws of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, and the courts of Rawalpindi have jurisdiction over any dispute — without prejudice to any mandatory consumer protection you are entitled to under the law of the country you live in.
PASTLIT (SMC-PRIVATE) LIMITED
Rawalpindi, Pakistan
hello@pastlit.com