What is the difference between Passed and Past? How to distinguish between Passed and Past? Let's see the following examples.

 

✗ I past my English Exam last week.

 ✓ I passed my English Exam last week

 

 ✗ It is half passed five now.

 ✓ It is half past five now.

 

Passed: past tense of the verb "to pass"

Past: (adjective) previous time, finished or ended. (preposition) later or further a particular time or place.