Edexcel A-Level Mathematics 9MA0, Further Mathematics 9FM0 and GCSE Mathematics 1MA1. Taught by Izaan Abdullah, who reads Mathematics at Warwick, and Rayan Raheel.
This is the single most expensive habit in A-Level Maths, and almost every student does it at least once. Read down the working and watch where the marks stop.
Correct use of the double angle identity. The mark is for the substitution, not for what comes after it. Writing this line down is worth a mark even if the rest goes wrong.
Dividing by cos x deletes every solution where cos x = 0. The student will get two correct answers, lose two more, and have no idea why the mark scheme wanted four. This is the most common single error in the topic.
Factorise, never divide, when the common factor can be zero. One habit, drilled once, protects marks across trigonometry, quadratics and calculus for the rest of the course.
Both values needed. Half a solution set scores nothing here, which is why the range gets checked before the pen goes down, not after.
One mark for finding the second angle correctly in the range, one for the accuracy. Students who only write the calculator value lose the method mark that was there for free.
All four, in range, to the required accuracy. Same knowledge as the student who scored four out of six. Different habits.
Three equally weighted papers at A-Level, and a Further Maths course whose optional modules change what a student actually needs. We teach the modules your school entered you for, not the ones we prefer.
Two hours and 100 marks each, a third of the grade apiece. Algebra, functions, trigonometry, sequences, differentiation, integration, vectors and numerical methods.
Fifty marks each in one two-hour paper. The large data set, hypothesis testing and distributions, then kinematics, forces and moments.
Core Pure 1 and 2 plus two optional papers. Complex numbers, matrices, series, hyperbolic functions, differential equations, then whichever options your school runs.
Three papers, one non-calculator and two calculator, 80 marks each. At Grade 8 and 9 the gap is almost never content. It is multi-step problem solving and the willingness to write down a first line when the route isn't obvious yet.
If a student is aiming at Maths, Economics or Computer Science at Cambridge, Oxford, Imperial, LSE, Warwick, Durham or UCL, the A-Level grade is only half the requirement. The admissions test sits in front of the offer.
TMUA preparation →Sessions run over video with an iPad and Apple Pencil mirrored to the screen, so a student watches the working appear line by line rather than reading a finished solution. Everything written in the hour is sent over afterwards as a PDF.
Send us the most recent one, mock or class test. We sort the lost marks into three piles: content not known, method not written down, and arithmetic under time pressure. Those three need completely different fixes, and treating them as one problem is why generic tutoring stalls.
Usually it is the middle one. A student who knows the maths and loses marks on presentation can gain a full grade in weeks, which is the fastest available return in A-Level Maths.
Full past papers are a blunt instrument early on. We use timed sections, twenty minutes at a time, marked to the real mark scheme, until pace stops being the problem. Whole papers come later.
Edexcel A-Level Mathematics 9MA0, Edexcel A-Level Further Mathematics 9FM0, and Edexcel GCSE Mathematics 1MA1 Higher Tier. Other boards share most of the content but not the question style, and question style is what we teach.
Almost always method marks. Edexcel pays for written working, so a correct answer with nothing above it can score a fraction of what's available, while a wrong answer with clean working can score most of it. This is a habit problem, and habit problems move fast.
Yes. Core Pure 1 and 2 as standard, then whichever options the school entered the student for: Further Pure, Further Statistics, Further Mechanics or Decision. Tell us the module codes on the first call.
Yes, and it's worth doing in the summer rather than in October. The jump is mostly algebraic fluency and the expectation that you write in full lines. Both are fixable before term starts.
Not currently. We prepare students for the TMUA, which now sits in front of most Maths, Economics and Computer Science offers. If a Cambridge Maths offer requires STEP, we'll tell you and point you elsewhere rather than take the work.
Free, on the first call. Content, method, or time. The answer changes what we'd actually do about it.
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