Exam notes
Notes that teach every topic in the specification, from the basics to what earns the marks. Read a topic, then test yourself on its past-paper questions. The examination gives half of your A Level.
Past papers
Every question from eight papers, with mark schemes, examiner comments and model answers. Filter by topic, or sit a full paper against the clock.
Open the past papers →Command words
What each command word asks you to do, how Pearson marks it, and an answer shape that earns the marks.
Open the guide →Glossary
Every technical term in the notes, with a short definition and a link to the part that teaches it.
Open the glossary →Approximately 75 seconds for each mark.
50% of the qualification. The NEA gives the other 50%.
You must have both.
Some questions use mathematics at GCSE higher tier.
You answer all the questions, and they can come from all twelve topics. The specification gives four types of question: calculations, short open questions, open response questions and extended writing. Extended writing questions ask you to analyse and evaluate design decisions and products by other people, and wider issues, for example social, moral, ethical and environmental effects. Specification ↗