TMUA Learning Tips for a Year 12 Student!!!!

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Get the spec https://esat-tmua.ac.uk/about-the-tests/tmua-test/ and attempt one old paper, say, so you have an idea of the type of questions (though obv its changed). mat livestream https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/study-here/undergraduate-study/maths-admissions-test/mat-livestream will have some videos/worksheets to cover a fair bit of paper 1 content.

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Paper 1 has some similarities with mat (multiple choice esp and both are roughly normal maths as/year 1 syllabus) so if you want to practice on some non tmua papers, probably slightly more difficult, then work through them. Similarly some of the ukmt smc questions may be worth attempting for elementary maths problem solving practice.

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Id probably use the tmua past papers sparingly and note that, as far as Im aware, last years paper hasnt been released so getting a bit of variety with mat and smc is probably a good thing (make sure the topics / questions are related to the tmua spec though).

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Paper 2 has some older notes, though there isnt as much related stuff easily available. Work though the notes, attempt one paper and see how you do / what you get wrong.

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For both paper 1 and paper 2, suck the marrow out of papers you attempt, so if you get it wrong/cant do questions, make some notes about why/what you should do in future. Attempt those questions again in a month or two, ... Even for ones you get right, think about if you can do them different ways and how to guestimate/verify answers quickly.

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mathsaurus does some lessons and R2Drew2 has a fair number of solutions, for instance.