How To Improve

This page contains a collection of resources that you can use to help you improve and will be added to as the year goes on.

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

You have now done all the pure material from AS Single Maths, and so past AS papers will be excellent practice and a chance to get a sense for exactly what you need to be able to do. I would recommend that for now you leave the MEI papers and instead use the very similar OCR papers - you can find all the OCR papers HERE. Please ignore the Mechanics and Stats questions.

Topic Specific Resources

At this stage, most of your practice will be topic specific. This may change later in the year when working through past papers will become more effective.

  • You are able to find practice past paper questions on a specific topics at ALevelMathsRevision.com, which is a great website - they have resources for both Single Maths and Further Maths that are selected to be suitable for our specification. Each sheet has accompanying mark scheme solutions.
  • Integral Maths is a very good 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.

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. He has a Youtube channel but the videos on his website are amazingly organised and easy to navigate, with a Single Maths page and a Further Core Pure page.