Grade 9
Ambitious for the highest possible grade in GCSE Maths?
This page gives you our best advice for achieving a Grade 9.
We have included revision tips, GCSE tips, exam solutions, videos and Grade 9 focus resources.
Good luck!
Tip 1: Revise Effectively
There is a science to revision.
There are proven strategies that ensure your long term memory is strong, and your maths skills are sharp.
This video has our top tips for mastering your exams!
You can also read our top tips for effective revision here.
Tip 2: Ensure there are no gaps.
If you were off school sick for 1 week in Year 8, you may have missed a key topic. Sometimes these topics are never revisited again because the GCSE course is so big that there simply isn’t enough time.
Therefore, it is important to go through the entire GCSE/IGCSE course again, just to check that you haven’t missed anything. We recommend skim reading our Addvance revision guides to double check.
If there is something unfamiliar, watch the video on it and do some practice, all of which is linked in the guide.
Tip 3: Master your Calculator
Our Casio ClassWizz page explains lots of quick and simple tricks for mastering your calculator. These quick tricks are a life hack when it comes to exams!
Tip 4: Watch our Grade 7+ Focus Videos.
These videos are focussed on the hardest GCSE/IGCSE questions we could find. They showcase the logical thinking, algebra and problem solving skills that is required to achieve the highest possible grades at GCSE.
We recommend pausing each video when the questions are first shown, so that you can try the questions yourself before seeing the answer. This helps you get the most out of each question.
Beware! They’re difficult! Good luck 😊
Tip 5: Practice, Self-Mark and Reflect
Practice makes perfect!
You must check that you are getting the marks correct in each question. Use a Markscheme to check that you are indeed getting your questions correct.
Our past paper page is here.
Made some mistakes? Reflect on them, making sure you understand exactly what went wrong in that moment to loose those marks!
Tip 6: Focused Practice on Hard Questions.
Here we’ve listed some of the best resources for challenging GCSE questions. The one’s that occur at the back of the paper and only a small percentage of students can figure out.
They’re tricky, enjoy the challenge!
- Dr Frost Maths Full Coverage.
These questions from Dr Frost are very good. You may wish to skip to the last 5 questions on each sheet as those are the hardest questions for each topic. - Grade 9 Question Paper.
Mr Barton Maths put this paper together with some of the hardest questions around. It’s tricky! - Grade 9 Tough Questions
- Gold Papers: Save My Exams
Save My Exams have made a brilliant list of exam questions targeting Grade 9. The exam papers are free, but the mark schemes are behind a paywall. - Spicy Questions – 1st Class Maths
These are very clever challenging questions. Enjoy!
Addvance Maths 