How to go about revising for the TMUA?

Hi, I'm beginning my revision for the TMUA right now, the test will be on January 8th. So I have about 2.5 weeks. I'm quite late, but this is mainly due to a last minute decision to try and get into a university for 2026 entry.

I've looked through a past paper and I was okay with thinking of how to get to a solution for a good few questions. I just need to further build up my own intuition and speed. I am quite fine with AS mathematics.

How should I go about revising for the TMUA? Should I start with MAT past papers and then move onto the TMUA past papers and community papers?

or is it worth spending a few days reading through the entire spec?

(edited 2 months ago)

Reply 1

ringi

As you don't have long, try choosing questions from past TMUA papers that look hard but not impossible then solve them. The only way to become good at solving maths questions is to do a lot of them.

Reply 2

needsomehelpt

Original post

by ringi

As you don't have long, try choosing questions from past TMUA papers that look hard but not impossible then solve them. The only way to become good at solving maths questions is to do a lot of them.

Thanks a lot for the response and I do understand, it'll be quite tricky trying to get a good score but I'll give it a go!

Do you think I should spend a week doing MAT papers before exhausting the TMUA papers?

I'll try to get through 3 TMUA paper sets (1+2) a day

Reply 3

ringi

The primary aim is to improve your maths ability not getting a good TMUA mark. So if MAT covers the same content and have more questions that make you think while also being solvable then starting with MAT past papers is not a bad option.