Terms

Last updated 19 September 2026. Short on purpose — read it.

What Paper Spot is

A study aid. We collect past UNISA exam papers, work out which topics come up, how often and for how many marks, and show you the questions as they were asked. We do not publish answers, we do not mark your work, and we do not help with current assignments or live exams. Nothing here is affiliated with, endorsed by, or speaks for UNISA.

Uploading a paper or memo

When you upload a file you confirm all of the following:

• You have the right to share it — it was given to you, you sat the exam, or it is otherwise lawfully in your hands.
• It is a past exam paper, memorandum or marking guide — not a current assignment, not a live or unreleased exam, not a textbook.
• It contains no other person’s personal details (student numbers, names on scripts). We check, but you are responsible.
• You give us a non-exclusive, perpetual licence to store it, extract from it, reword it, and show the results to other students.

Uploads go into private storage. We do not republish your file as-is. Reworded questions, statistics and scanned pages we derive from it may be shown to other students. Rewards for uploads (a free module) are granted by hand after we verify the file is genuine, not a duplicate, and usable — we decide, and we say so plainly if we decline.

Your account and passes

Sign-in is by phone number. A pass is for you, on up to two devices at a time; a third sign-in signs the oldest one out. Passes are per semester and end on the stated date — no auto-renewal, no subscriptions. Payments made by EFT or voucher are matched by hand; a pass is unlocked once the payment shows, usually within hours. If we cannot match a payment we say so on your account page. Refunds: if a pass was unlocked in error or the module has no papers, ask and we reverse it.

Threads

Threads are public and may be indexed by search engines. Post under a display name, never a phone number. No current-assignment answers, no exam-leak requests, no abuse. We remove posts that break this, and repeat offenders lose posting rights.

Takedown

If you hold rights in material on this site and want it removed, see the takedown policy. We act within two working days.

Contact

Through the contribute page (leave your number and we call back).