Your Journey Through A Level Maths
Most A-level maths sites do the same thing: pile up resources and leave you to figure out where to start. Mine doesn’t. I’ve taught in classrooms and tutored A-level maths for years, and I know it’s a journey — not a stack of PDFs. So I built this site to guide you through the journey, not just hand you a booklet and say “get on with it.” Here’s the four-stage cycle I use with my own students:
Your A-level maths journey
Four stages, from first lesson to exam day.
Build competence
Stage 1
Learn
Understand the technique
Video lessons
140+ videos walking through each topic from first principles.
Stage 2
Practice
Build fluency on the technique
Worksheets
Paired with each video lesson and worked through step by step.
Increase fluency
Stage 4
Synoptic revision
Mixed-topic exam conditions
Past papers
Complete A-level and Further Maths papers from all boards.
A* questions
The hardest exam questions, for students aiming at the top grade.
Stage 3
Topic revision
Exam questions, one topic at a time
Exam questions by topic
OCR and Edexcel past-paper questions with mark schemes.
Revision notes
Handwritten summaries for every topic to help jog your memory.
Stage 1: Learning The Content
Every topic begins here. Whether you’re meeting an idea for the very first time or coming back to one that never quite stuck, the priority is to understand why the methods work, not just memorise the steps. Once the underlying logic clicks, the exam techniques in later stages slot in much more easily.
Work through the video lessons for each topic in order. There are more than 140 of them and together they cover the entire A Level Maths specification from first principles. Each one is short enough to watch in a single sitting, and you can pause, rewind, and rewatch as much as you need without feeling like you’re holding up a class. Treat this stage as exploratory: take notes, try the examples alongside the video, and don’t worry yet about timing or exam style.
Stage 2: Practising The Methods
Understanding a method when you watch someone else do it is very different from being able to do it yourself. Stage 2 is where you close that gap. The aim is fluency — reaching the point where the standard moves on a topic feel automatic, so that in the exam your working memory is free for the trickier judgement calls rather than the basic mechanics.
Each video lesson is paired with a topic worksheet, again more than 140 in total. Work through them with the video fresh in your mind, and check yourself against the fully worked solutions provided. If a question goes wrong, don’t just glance at the answer — redo it from scratch until you can produce the full solution unaided. That habit is what turns understanding into genuine fluency.
Stage 3: Topic-by-topic revision
Stage 3 happens alongside your studies, not after them. As soon as you’ve learned and practised a topic in Stages 1 and 2, move straight into exam-style questions on that same topic while it’s still fresh. Working this way — topic by topic, in real time as you cover the course — is far more effective than leaving all your exam practice until the end. You build exam-readiness gradually, and any weaknesses get caught and fixed close to when you first learned the material, rather than months later when everything has gone cold.
Start with exam questions by topic: real past-paper questions sorted by area of the specification, with mark schemes so you can mark your own work honestly. Treat each topic like a mini-exam — work through the questions for the topic you’ve just finished, mark yourself strictly, and note where you lose marks.
Alongside the questions, the revision notes work as concise topic summaries: handwritten one-page distillations of the key formulae, methods, and worked examples for every topic on the course. Use them to refresh a topic before tackling its questions, to look up a method you’ve half-forgotten mid-practice, or to skim through the entire course quickly in the final weeks before the exam.
Stage 4: Synoptic exam practice
The final stage replicates the real thing. Individual topic fluency isn’t enough on its own — the actual exam demands that you switch between topics on consecutive questions, recognise which method a question is asking for without being told, and pace yourself across a full paper. Stage 4 builds those skills, and it’s the one stage you can really only get going with once the course is finished and you have enough topics under your belt to handle mixed questions.
Sit complete past papers under timed conditions. There are full papers from every major exam board with mark schemes and examiner reports, so you can mark your work and read what examiners actually look for — often the difference between a method mark and a full-marks answer is something small that the examiner report makes explicit.
Once full papers feel comfortable, push further with the A* questions: a curated set of the hardest exam-style problems, designed to test the synoptic and problem-solving skills that separate an A from an A*. If a question feels uncomfortable, that’s the point — it’s exposing exactly the kind of weakness the top-grade questions are designed to find.
And here's the secret…
Most students treat revision as a linear journey: learn it all, then revise it all, then do papers. That’s not how high-scoring students actually work. They loop. A bad past-paper question on integration sends them straight back to Stage 1 for that one sub-topic; a topic that felt solid in Stage 3 gets revisited the moment Stage 4 exposes a weakness. The diagram has arrows going both ways across the bottom for a reason — the closer you get to the exam, the more you’ll move fluidly between stages rather than working through them in strict order. The cycle is the method.