Eight weeks is enough to prepare well for the TMUA if you study about 4–5 hours a week. This plan covers the whole specification, puts the high-value Paper 2 logic early, and finishes with two timed mocks.
| Week 1 | Diagnose and plan Read the official content specification and tick off what you know. Do 10 mixed questions untimed and note the topics you got wrong. Start a mistakes notebook. Practise this → |
| Week 2 | Algebra toolkit Indices, surds, quadratics and the discriminant, inequalities, the factor and remainder theorems. Daily no-calculator arithmetic for 10 minutes. Practise this → |
| Week 3 | Logic for Paper 2 If/then, only if, iff, converse and contrapositive, necessary and sufficient, quantifiers and negation. This is the biggest gain for most students. Practise this → |
| Week 4 | Calculus and graphs Differentiation and integration of powers of x, stationary points, tangents, integrals versus areas, graph transformations. Practise this → |
| Week 5 | Proof and errors in proof Proof by contradiction and counterexample, ordering the steps of a proof, spotting the flawed step. Then sequences, series and the binomial expansion. Practise this → |
| Week 6 | Geometry, trig, logs Circles and coordinate geometry, radians and trig equations in an interval, exponentials and logarithms, GCSE geometry and probability. |
| Week 7 | First timed mock Sit both papers under exam conditions: 75 minutes each, back to back, no calculator. Mark it, then spend twice as long reviewing as you spent sitting it. |
| Week 8 | Second mock and polish Sit a second full mock. Revisit every entry in your mistakes notebook. Practise the habit of moving on after 4 minutes and coming back. |
For 2027 entry the TMUA runs on 12–16 October 2026 and 4–8 January 2027. Most Oxford and Cambridge applicants must sit in October; for other universities, check whether January is accepted. Read our full TMUA guide for dates, fees and universities, and what a good score looks like.
The Admit Maths course has 12 modules mapped to the official specification, worked solutions for every question, and two full timed mock papers. It opens in December 2026, in time for the January sitting.
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