Resources
Built from Edexcel’s mark schemes and examiner reports.
Five Pure traps very few candidates get past
The five traps the examiner reports describe most severely, each one worked in full, with diagrams.
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Five rules from the front of the mark scheme
How crossed-out work, extra attempts, formulas, exact answers and g = 9.8 are marked, on one page to print.
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Calculator guides
For the Casio fx-CG100.
fx-CG100 calculator skills: AS and A level Maths
30 skills across Pure, Statistics and Mechanics, each linked to a video to follow on your own calculator.
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fx-CG100 calculator skills: Further Maths Core Pure
12 skills for complex numbers, matrices, series, calculus, vectors and polar curves, each linked to a video to follow on your own calculator.
Open the PDF (opens in a new tab)Where Beat the Traps comes in
Beat the Traps turns the examiner reports into practice. It takes the mistakes that cost students the most marks, topic by topic, so that you meet each one, and its fix, before the exam.
If your school uses it, sign in. If it does not yet, show your teacher the page for schools.
Spot the trap, keep the mark.