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This is a very late post but is here to ensure these resources are available going forward – I just shared the direct links due to time at Christmas.

I made my usual A-Level Calculated colouring for Christmas 2024. You can get the file from the link below.

A-Level Calculated Colouring 2024

I also made a smaller Further Maths one that I intended to be suitable for Year 12 further mathematicians.

A-Level Further Maths Calculated Colouring 2024

Finally I wrote a New Year task for my students as well, see below:

New Year Task 2025

Apologies that this is later than usual. I hope things are still useful. Feel free to share links with your students.

Practice Exam Papers

These papers are intended as practice papers. They are not “predicted” papers as I have no prior knowledge of the topics and question styles that will come up on the papers. Once Paper 1 has happened for a course I will make some reasonable assumptions on topics that may not be assessed again, or those that will be assessed; however there is no guarantee that this is the case. 
Apologies in advance for any mistakes in the solutions.

• AQA A-Level Further Maths Paper 1
  • Solutions
• AQA A-Level Further Maths Paper 2
  • Solutions
• AQA A-Level Further Maths Paper 3 Mechanics
  • Solutions
• AQA A-Level Further Maths Paper 3 Discrete
  • Solutions

• AQA A-Level Maths Paper 1
  • Solutions
• AQA A-Level Maths Paper 2
  • Solutions
• AQA A-Level Maths Paper 3
  • Solutions

Warmup Grids

These are intended to be used in a 45 minute / 1 hour session before the exam. They should contain relatively straightforward questions and checks of knowledge to boost confidence going into the exam.

• AQA A-Level Further Maths Paper 1 Warmup Grid
• AQA A-Level Further Maths Paper 2 Warmup Grid
• AQA A-Level Further Maths Paper 3 MD Warmup Grid
• AQA A-Level Further Maths Paper 3 MS Warmup Grid
• AQA A-Level Further Maths Paper 3 SD Warmup Grid

• AQA A-Level Maths Paper 1 Warmup Grid
• AQA A-Level Maths Paper 2 Warmup Grid
• AQA A-Level Maths Paper 3 Warmup Grid

• AQA Level 2 Further Maths Paper 1 Warmup Grid
• AQA Level 2 Further Maths Paper 2 Warmup Grid

Revision Clocks

Most of these are designed to be completed in one hour, sometimes the goal is just to do them as fast as possible!

• A-Level Proof Revision Clock
  • Solutions
• A-Level Mixed Paper 2 Revision Clock
  • Solutions (thanks to Nicky Gale @nicnaks79)

• Level 2 Further Maths Revision Clock (Mixed Questions)
  • Solutions
• Level 2 Further Maths Revision Clock (Matrices)
  • Solutions

As always apologies that this is later than I had originally planned. A combination of school work and feeling poorly meant I didn’t get it up on Monday as I had hoped. Sorry.

The keen eyed amongst you will probably spot that I have recycled an image I originally used in a further maths calculated colouring in 2019. I like this picture which was drawn by my cousin.

Hope your students enjoy it this year. I’d love to see comments and images on Twitter (I suppose I should call it X now) – tag me at @DrBennison-.

You can download the file here: A-Level Calculated Colouring 2o23

I will be adding to this post as and when I post resources so please keep checking back.

The plan is for there to be one set (at least – If I have a chance I may do more) of practice papers for AQA A-Level Maths, AQA A-Level Further Maths and AQA Level 2 Further Maths. I am also intending on producing some 15 minute boost worksheets and exam warmup grids for these exams.

Solutions will generally go up a few days after the papers.

Exam Papers

These papers are intended as practice papers. They are not “predicted” papers as I have no prior knowledge of the topics and question styles that will come up on the papers. Once Paper 1 has happened for a course I will make some reasonable assumptions on topics that may not be assessed again, or those that will be assessed; however there is no guarantee that this is the case.
Apologies in advance for any mistakes in the solutions.

• AQA A-Level Further Maths Paper 1 Practice Paper. Solutions
• AQA A-Level Further Maths Paper 1B Practice Paper. Solutions
• AQA A-Level Further Maths Paper 1C Practice Paper Solutions
• AQA A-Level Further Maths Paper 2A Practice Paper Solutions
• AQA A-Level Further Maths Paper 2B Practice Paper. Solutions
• AQA A-Level Further Maths Paper 3M Practice Paper Solutions
• AQA A-Level Further Maths Paper 3D Practice Paper Solutions

• AQA A-Level Maths Paper 1A Practice Paper Solutions
• AQA A-Level Maths Paper 1B Practice Paper Solutions
• AQA A-Level Maths Paper 2 Practice Paper Solutions
• AQA A-Level Maths Paper 3 Practice Paper Solutions

• AQA Level 2 Further Maths Paper 1A. Solutions
• AQA Level 2 Further Maths Paper 2

Warm Up Grids

These are intended to be used in a 45 minute / 1 hour session before the exam. They should contain relatively straightforward questions and checks of knowledge to boost confidence going into the exam.

• AQA A-Level Further Maths Paper 1 Warmup
• AQA A-Level Further Maths Paper 2 Warmup
• AQA A-Level Further Maths Paper 3 MD Warmup

• AQA A-Level Maths Paper 1 Warmup
• AQA A-Level Maths Paper 2 Warmup
• AQA A-Level Maths Paper 3 Warmup

• AQA Level 2 Further Maths Paper 1 Warmup
• AQA Level 2 Further Maths Paper 2 Warmup

15 Minute Boost Sheets: A-Level Maths

Short worksheets containing 5 knowledge recall questions, 1 short form question and one longer form question. The intention is that these take around 15 minutes to complete.

• Maths 15 Minute Boost Sheet 1 Solutions
• Maths 15 Minute Boost Sheet 2 Solutions
• Maths 15 Minute Boost Sheet 3 Solutions
• Maths 15 Minute Boost Sheet 4 Solutions
• Maths 15 Minute Boost Sheet 5 Solutions
• Maths 15 Minute Boost Sheet 6
• Maths 15 Minute Boost Sheet 7
• Maths 15 Minute Boost Sheet 8

15 Minute Boost Sheets: A-Level Further Maths

Short worksheets containing 5 knowledge recall questions, 1 short form question and one longer form question. The intention is that these take around 15 minutes to complete.

• Further Maths 15 Minute Boost Sheet 1 Solutions
• Further Maths 15 Minute Boost Sheet 2 Solutions
• Further Maths 15 Minute Boost Sheet 3 Solutions
• Further Maths 15 Minute Boost Sheet 4 Solutions
• Further Maths 15 Minute Boost Sheet 5 Solutions
• Further Maths 15 Minute Boost Sheet 6
• Further Maths 15 Minute Boost Sheet 7

Key Points Summaries and Examples

Short documents with summaries of key points for given topics and key examples.

The annotated versions contain the annotations and solutions I wrote when working through this with my students.

• Coordinate Geometry Recap Annotated
• Sequences and Series Recap Annotated
• Trigonometry Recap Annotated

Miscellaneous Resources

• AQA A-Level Maths Paper 2 Pure Revision Clock Solutions (Courtesy of @ECR_Maths)
• AQA A-Level Maths Paper 3 Revision Clock Solutions

In case you can’t manage without a bit of maths you may like to try my Christmas Day task for this year. I like to set a task in Christmas Day for my classes with a prize for the first to submit a solution.

Versions Below:

A-Level

GCSE

It’s that time of year again 🙂

My A-Level Christmas Calculated Colouring is now available (downloadable since the evening of the 12/12/22) – I am checking questions for any errors on the 13th so if you can avoid downloading till then you should!).

The file with questions can be downloaded here: Christmas Colouring 2022

It should be suitable for most Year 12 students given the topics of the questions but please check.

I hope your students enjoy it. There are of course still versions from previous years available.

UPDATE: Version with a few typos corrected and additions added in – thanks to Susan Whitehouse and GodsonMaths.

On this page I am going to gradually share the revision resources I have produce that target the advanced information for 2022. Of course they should be useful in later years too.

Many of you know that I had COVID earlier in the year and seem to have been strangely affected by it in terms of just how tired I am once I get in from school – consequently these are later than I had hoped, I’m sorry. I will add to this page as I publish resources and tweet when I do. The plan is a set of “practice” papers for AQA A-Level Maths and AQA A-Level Further Maths, a paper for OCR FSMQ and then some “Exam warmup” grids for use before the exams.

“Predicted Content Exam Papers”

• AQA AS-Level Maths Paper 1 (Solutions)
• AQA A-Level Maths Paper 1 (Solutions)
• AQA A-Level Maths Paper 1 v2 (Solutions)
• AQA A-Level Maths Paper 2 (Solutions) Question 18 addendum, Question 6 addendum courtesy of Jack @TLMaths
• AQA A-Level Maths Paper 3 (Solutions)

• AQA A-Level Further Maths Paper 1 (Solutions)
• AQA A-Level Further Maths Paper 2 (Solutions)
• AQA A-Level Further Maths Paper 3 – Discrete (Solutions)
• AQA A-Level Further Maths Paper 3 – Mechanics (Solutions)
• AQA A-Level Further Maths Paper 3 – Statistics (Solutions)

Warmup Grids

• AQA AS-Level Maths Paper 1 Warmup
• AQA AS-Level Maths Paper 2 Warmup
• AQA A-Level Maths Paper 1 Warmup
• AQA A-Level Maths Paper 2 Warmup
• AQA A-Level Maths Paper 3 Warmup

• AQA A-Level Further Maths Paper 1 Warmup
• AQA A-Level Further Maths Paper 2 Warmup
• AQA A-Level Further Maths Paper 3 Mechanics & Discrete Warmup
• AQA A-Level Further Maths Paper 3 Mechanics & Statistics Warmup
• AQA A-Level Further Maths Paper 3 Statistics & Discrete Warmup

• AQA Level 2 Further Maths Paper 1 Warmup
• AQA Level 2 Further Maths Paper 2 Warmup

I am one of the Work Group Leads (along with the great Vanessa Roper) for a new Research and Innovation Workgroup from the East Midlands West MathsHub. We are going to be looking any ways to improve students’ transition from GCSE to A-Level mathematics. There are some more details of this Work Group here: http://emwest.co.uk/gcse-to-a-level-transition-work-group/

As we want the work to be research informed, both from published sources and mini action research I am asking for your help…. We have two surveys – one teacher focussed and one student focussed. Please could you spare a few minutes to complete the teacher one and send the link to the student one to your students and encourage them to complete it.

Teacher Survey: https://forms.office.com/r/SmfxzPiuZd

Student Survey: https://forms.office.com/r/b8B6sLvzKL

Thanks a lot for your help with this!

Of course if you are based in the East Midlands it would be amazing if you could join us and take part – the first session is on the 2nd March.

The time is here again…. This year’s A-Level Calculated Colouring for Christmas – sorry it is a little late. I hope it is still of use to people.

Download the file here.

Solutions are here also.

As always please just message me if you notice any errors.