February 2025 Maths and Statistics Update

4 February - January 2025 question papers available for IAL and Edexcel Awards

13 February - Final date for ATS and Reviews of Marking for November GCSE series

18 February - January 2025 mark schemes available for IAL and Edexcel Awards

21 February - Entry deadline for Summer series (all UK academic quals)

22 February - Late fees for Summer series apply from this date

28 February - Issuing of certificates for November GCSE series

All training events are available to book on the Pearson Professional Development Academy

GCSE (9-1) Mathematics

New releases for November 2024 series

Access the Post Series Support November 2024 Timeline document

GCSE Maths Mock Set 10

A reminder that Mock Set 10 was released in January and is available under padlock on the website for centres to use as a secure assessment that is unseen by students. 

As you may be aware, we have decided that GCSE Maths mock set 10 will be the last mock set for a while for this qualification.  

We wanted to highlight the support that will be continuing and improving as a result of this change to ensure you have all you need for your mocks in future and to explain the additional support that will be available for our other qualifications as a result of this decision.

Here are some key resources that could be used in place of the mock sets:

• November series papers 
  These are available via the Maths Emporium or secure under padlock for a year on our website, so students won’t be able to access these in advance. Word versions of question papers and mark schemes are available on the Emporium. The question papers and grade boundaries for the November series are to the same standard as the Summer series, so you can use these with confidence. 
• Shadow papers  
  We produce shadow papers after each exam series (both Summer and November). These provide unseen questions to use with your students and these can also be used with the grade boundaries from the real exam series. These are accompanied by full mark schemes as well as supporting material such as worked solutions.  We are also working on producing additional sets of shadow papers so that unseen, secure assessment materials can be used at various points throughout the school year to suit you. 
• Skills Maps and ExamWizard                                                                                             The Skills Maps for GCSE Maths are updated each year and can be used to curate your own exam papers for your students. The Skills Maps allow you to compile your question paper, selecting questions by topic, skill or exam series and provide the exam data for each question, allowing you to determine the grade boundaries you want to use with greater ease. Using the Skills Maps alongside ExamWizard means you can easily compile the questions and mark schemes for the questions you want to use with your students.  

Mocks for our other GCSE/Level 2 qualifications 

We are looking at expanding our range of assessment support materials for other qualifications. We will be creating brand new Mock Sets this year to support the delivery of both GCSE (9-1) Statistics and our new Level 2 Extended Maths Certificate. 

Upcoming training events

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Useful Links

To enhance our teacher support, we have published a GCSE Mathematics FAQ page with answers to some of your most commonly asked questions on a range of topics from calculator guidance to tiering support.

Go to GCSE Mathematics FAQs

Formulae sheets for 2025 can be accessed using the links below:

GCSE Maths Foundation Tier Exam Aid

GCSE Maths Higher Tier Exam Aid

GCSE (9-1) Statistics

Upcoming training event

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New Schemes of Work with GCSE Maths crossover

New Schemes of Work for GCSE Statistics have been released that show the crossover content with GCSE Maths.

These new SoWs have been developed in Excel for ease of navigation. The schemes include references to the relevant textbook exercises for GCSE Statistics (and GCSE Maths for crossover content) along with useful notes to assist you in your planning.

GCSE Statistics Foundation SoW

GCSE Statistics Higher SoW

Coming soon - GCSE Statistics shadow papers

Level 2 Extended Mathematics Certificate

Formulae sheet

The formulae sheet for the 2025 Level 2 Extended Mathematics Certificate exams is now available to download from the website.

Level 2 Extended Maths Certificate: Formulae Sheet

Students will be provided with the formula for the Trapezium Rule in the body of the question should it be needed.

New Specimen Papers

New FAQ support

To enhance our teacher support, we have published a Level 2 Extended Maths Certificate FAQ page with answers to some of your most commonly asked questions about this qualification.

Go to Level 2 Extended Maths Certificate FAQs

AS/A Level Mathematics and Further Mathematics

Upcoming training events

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AS and A Level Maths and Further Maths Mock Sets

As you may be aware, we have decided that A level Maths mock set 5 will be the last mock set for a while for this qualification.  

We wanted to highlight the support that will be continuing and improving as a result of this change to ensure you have all you need for your mocks in future and to explain the additional support that will be available for our other qualifications as a result of this decision.

Here are some key resources that could be used in place of the mock sets:

Shadow papers  

We produce shadow papers after each exam series. These provide unseen questions to use with your students and these can also be used with the grade boundaries from the real exam series.  We have taken your feedback on board and improved our checking processes for these and from 2025 for A level Maths we will be producing more detailed mark schemes including some alternative methods, so they are more similar to the live exam paper.  

Skills Maps and ExamWizard

The Skills Maps for all of our AS/A level qualifications are updated after each exam series and can be used to curate your own exam papers for your students. The Skills Maps allow you to compile your question paper, selecting questions by topic or exam series and provide the exam data for each question, allowing you to determine the grade boundaries you want to use with greater ease. Using the Skills Maps alongside ExamWizard means you can easily compile the questions and mark schemes for the questions you want to use with your students.  

Mocks for our other AS/A level qualifications 

We are looking at expanding our range of assessment support materials for other qualifications, therefore we will continue to produce mock sets for 8MA0 AS Maths (up to mock set 5), 8FM0 AS Further Maths and 9FM0 A level Further Maths. 

We have recently released the 8MA0 AS Maths mock set 4 and 8FM0 AS Further Maths mock set 1 onto our website under a silver padlock. You can download these using the link below.

Useful Links

To enhance our teacher support, we have published an A Level Mathematics FAQ page with answers to some of your most commonly asked questions. 

Go to AS and A Level Mathematics FAQs

A Level Statistics

Upcoming training event

Register for training events on the Pearson Professional Development Academy

Coming soon - updated Scheme of Work

Advanced Extension Award

What is the Advanced Extension Award (AEA)?

The Pearson Edexcel Advanced Extension Award in Mathematics is assessed by one externally-examined examination paper (3 hours, 100 marks) available in May/June in every year.

The paper may contain questions on any topic from GCE Advanced Level in Mathematics and calculators must not be used in the assessment. It will consist of about seven questions. Questions may be multi-step with confidence building parts or unstructured. Some may be of an unusual nature that might include topics from GCSE and logic based items.  Questions may be open-ended.

Seven percent of the marks will be assigned for style and clarity of mathematical presentation. The examiners will seek to reward elegance of solution, insight in reaching a solution, rigour in developing a mathematical argument and excellent use of notation.

Getting Started Guide

Maths in Context (Level 3 Core Maths)

Pre-release of source booklet for 2025 exams

We wanted to inform you that the pre-release material for 7MC0 Mathematics in Context (Level 3 Core Maths) will be released on Monday 3rd March 2025.  

From the 2025 exam series onwards the pre-release material will be issued on or around 3rd March each year.  This change has been made to ensure that there is adequate preparation time in advance of the examinations. 

Please see our key dates page for more information:

Key dates 

Free support sessions from AMSP

Did you know that the AMSP run free discussion meetings on the pre-release material for 7MC0 Mathematics in Context?  

Please see details below of their upcoming sessions. 

March 10 (14.00 to 16.00): event details 

March 18 (16.00 to 18.00): event details 

International GCSE Mathematics

A reminder that the deadline for Reviews of Marking and Access to Scripts for the November 2024 series of International GCSE Mathematics is 13 February 2025.

If you're a centre with a concern about a student's results, you can use our post-results services. You can find full information on our post-results service support page:

Post-results services | Pearson qualifications

You can find information on release dates of assessment materials relating to the November 2024 series for International GCSE below.

GQ Assessment Materials Release Dates

International A Level Mathematics

A reminder that the deadline for Reviews of Marking and Access to Scripts for the October 2024 series of International A Level Mathematics is 13 February 2025.

If you're a centre with a concern about a student's results, you can use our post-results services. You can find full information on our post-results service support page:

Post-results services | Pearson qualifications

You can find information on release dates of assessment materials relating to the October 2024 and January 2025 series for International A Level below.

GQ Assessment Materials Release Dates