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.

Past Paper Practice - Current Specification

Paper can be found in THIS GOOGLE DRIVE. Past paper practice is invaluable, and when possible should be done is exam conditions to improve your recall and get you used to time pressure. So far we have released the practice papers produced by MEI - we will give you more papers nearer to the exams, but please stay away from these for now.

Topic Specific Resources

If you know you have some weak topics then you should target these first, rather than jumping straight into full past papers.

  • 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.
  • 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.

Past Paper Practice - Old Spec Papers

For more past paper practice you can use papers from the old MEI specification papers from the old MEI specification - the papers match up as follows:

  • For Single Pure - use C1,C2,C3,C4 - C2 is best for sequences and series, C3 for calculus, C4 for partial fractions and harmonic form.
  • For Further Pure - FP1 papers are good but ignore curve sketching questions and any proof by induction for divisibility.
  • For Statistics - use S1 for most things, but you will have to look at S2 for Normal distribution questions.
  • For Mechanics - you should be able to do all of M1 (but these don't test moments or coefficient of friction)

Madas has also produced papers for the current specification - these can be great practice and have solutions but they do get difficult:

Videos

You can find quick videos on a few of the topics on my Youtube channel - if you go to the playlists they are organised by paper.

There are also incredible videos by TL Maths - these cover every single topic from both Single Maths and Further Core Pure, Mech Minor and Stats Minor. He has a Youtube channel but the videos on his website are amazingly organised and easy to navigate.