A Level Math Revision
A Level Math Revision
Exam strategy, worked examples and study routines from Pete Bromfield, a former Head of Maths with examining experience. New post every Tuesday.
What an A* in A Level Maths actually takes, where strong students still drop marks, and a revision routine that fixes them, with two worked examples.
A Level Maths · Past papersWhen to start A Level and IAL Maths past papers, how to sit and mark them, and how to read M1, dM1, A1 and B1 in an Edexcel mark scheme, with a worked example.
A Level Maths · Calculator skillsSix calculator tasks A Level and IAL Maths papers keep asking for, the slips that cost marks, and the JCQ exam-mode rules, with key-by-key walkthroughs.
IAL P1 · DifferentiationThe four differentiation question types on Edexcel IAL P1, worked step by step, with the M, A and B marks an examiner looks for in each.
IAL S1 · Normal distributionStandardising, reading the normal tables, inverse problems and finding an unknown mean and standard deviation, the way Edexcel IAL S1 marks them.
Each post takes one exam topic or skill from UK A-Level Maths (Edexcel 9MA0, with notes for AQA and OCR students) or Edexcel International A-Level (P1–P4, S1, M1) and works through it the way an examiner marks it: the method marks, the accuracy marks and the wording that earns the reasoning mark (new to mark codes? Read how maths mark schemes work).
Use the filters above to find Pure, Statistics, Mechanics or exam-skills posts. For structured revision, go to the UK A-Level topics, the Edexcel IAL units or the revision notes.