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Maths: a free revision guide, built from AQA’s own papers

Written for AQA GCSE Mathematics (8300), all three papers. Every topic on two pages, exam questions answered and marked exactly as AQA marks them, a question to try after each, the formulae, calculator and non-calculator skills every paper tests, and a practice paper with answers. Print it as a class set and use it from tomorrow.

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Cover of the Maths revision guide: a parabola on a pair of axes, a compass drawing a circle, and a protractor arc, on a navy page above the title

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A guide that asks pupils to do something

1

Learn it

Every topic opens with sixty seconds of the topic, then the facts to know. Each fact has a circle to colour: know it, shaky, missed. The key words sit beside them with a box to tick, and a Spot it question on a sticky note tests one idea.

2

Use it

Then the page turns to a diagram or table, an exam question answered and marked in red pen (a few lose marks, so pupils see why), a Try it question for the pupil to answer, and a blank box. Cover both pages and write the answer from memory.

3

Test it

Pages for every formula, split into what you must memorise, what you must be able to derive, and what AQA gives you on the paper, plus calculator and non-calculator skills side by side. Two problem-solving questions marked at three different standards, and a page of what AQA’s examiners saw students get wrong. Then a practice paper with its answers, and a tracker.

Every topic, and the skills

Number: structure and calculation
Fractions, decimals, percentages and accuracy
Expressions, formulae and identities
Straight-line graphs
Quadratic and other graphs
Solving equations and inequalities
Sequences
Ratio and proportion
Percentages and financial maths
Compound measures and rates of change
Angles, polygons, constructions, bearings and loci
Perimeter, area and volume
Pythagoras and trigonometry
Transformations, congruence and similarity
Circle theorems and vectors
Probability
Statistics

Maths isn’t split by paper the way the sciences are: any of these topics can appear on any of the three papers, so this guide covers all of them, not just a Paper 1 slice.

Built from AQA’s own documents

The facts follow AQA’s GCSE Mathematics specification (8300), version 1.1.
The exam advice comes from AQA’s own Higher-tier papers, mark schemes and examiners’ reports (June 2022 and June 2023), and its command words list.
No AQA question or mark scheme is copied. Every question in the guide was written for it.
It is an independent resource, not produced or endorsed by AQA.

This is the first edition, and a serving maths teacher has not read it through yet. If you teach GCSE Maths and spot anything that should change, tell us at info@empowereducators.co.uk and we will fix it.

Why it is free

We write exam board books for heads of department, and we sell them. This guide is one we give away. It shows how we work: the content follows the exam board’s own list, the exam advice comes from its own papers, and nothing is there to pad the page count.

If it helps your pupils, the rest of the Maths shelf is below. If it does not, you have lost nothing.

For the teacher printing it

Print it double-sided. Black and white works, though the cover is navy and the red pen shows as grey. Use it as a class set, or put it on your school’s own system. The contents page has a four-week plan, and the tracker at the back lets a pupil see what they have revisited.

Please do not pass it to other schools or put it on public websites.

Questions teachers ask

Is it really free?: Yes. We ask for a name and an email address, and one question: would you like to hear about new resources? Yes or no, you get the guide either way.
Which course does it cover?: AQA GCSE Mathematics (8300): all six strands (Number, Algebra, Ratio and proportion, Geometry and measures, Probability, Statistics) across all three papers. Maths isn’t split by paper the way the sciences are, so there is no excluded “Paper 2 content” here.
Is it for Foundation or Higher tier?: Both. Content for Higher tier only is marked HT, so Foundation pupils can skip it.
Is it written by AQA?: No. It is independent and is not produced or endorsed by AQA.

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