Need to Know facts

  • The Knowledge is a list of results that you need to know off by heart - either because you are not given them in the formula booklet or because you need to have them at your fingertips to recognise them. The best way to learn these is by writing down from memory on the document as much as you can using The Knowledge Answers to check.

Year 13 Single Pure Material

The Year 13 Single Pure material covers sequences and series (including arithmetic and geometric), trigonometry (including radians, inverse and reciprocal trig functions, identities, double and compound angle formulae, and harmonic form) and functions (domains, ranges and inverse functions). Annoyingly there are no past papers on just these topic so you are best to use the following sources of topic specific practice:

  • If you want to practice past paper questions on a specific topic then ALevelMathsRevision.com is a great website - they have resources for both Single Maths and Further Maths that are selected to be suitable for the new specification. Each sheet has accompanying mark scheme solutions.
  • Integral Maths is an obvious option and has not only worksheets with full solutions but also video explanations to help recap topics that are causing more problems.
  • Videos at TLMaths - but if you are using these then don't just watch - you should pause the video to try the question and then watch to check or to see how to do it if you get stuck.
  • The Edexcel Textbooks have been uploaded in pdf form by someone on Reddit to this Google Drive. The Single Maths books have a 98% overlap with our specification. The Further Maths books don't match as perfectly but will still be great for extra questions on some topics.
  • MadAsMaths - the "Maths Booklets" section has excellent, challenging topic-specific questions with full written solutions. It can be a little difficult to navigate so go here for integration, here for trigonometry, and here for other Single Pure topics. For Futher Pure topics you can find sheets on complex numbers, roots of polynomials and special sums here.
  • Physics and Maths Tutor also has topic specific pages with cheat sheets as well as selected questions.

Mechanics Material

Wing may have already recommended some resources but one source of past papers that will be good to use are old MEI M1 papers - use the MEI M1 papers from 2005-2018 but just ignore the projectiles questions because you haven't done those yet. Everything else should be fine.

Year 12 Further Maths Material

Current specification MEI Core Pure AS papers are the best thing for this. If you are in Delta then you should be able to do almost everything except for questions involving angles between vectors and questions involving planes (these will only be one or two questions on each paper). Other classes that haven't done much with matrices yet will need to be a little more selective, but anything on complex numbers, roots of polynomials or sequences and series should still be perfect.

Topic specific links for the Single Pure material above will also allow for more targeted practice.