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New Style 4360 Past Paper Quizzes
Revise for Unit 2 and Unit 3 with these Higher Tier revision exams called past paper quizzes (PPQs). Click a link below for a Preview-Lite sample quiz.

Unit 2 June 2011 Past Paper (Free)
Unit 2 June 2012 Past Paper (Free)
Unit 3 Set 1 Practice Paper (Free)

The Unit 2 June 2011 and the Unit 3 Set 1 PPQ quizzes include YouTube video answers to the questions.

To sample a video from the Unit 3 Practice Paper, click this link:
Video Solution Qu 1

Click here for links to all the New Style quizzes.

Are New Style Quizzes Free?
The Preview versions of the PPQ quizzes are free. To do the Preview-Lite and most of the other free quizzes you can log in with a visitor account or your own personal user name. When you click the quiz link the login window explains the detail. You may be asked do you wish to enrol to do the quiz? Respond 'yes'.

To do a Preview-Standard version you have to log in with your own user name.

Click here for further information.

A New Style Past Paper Quiz is more than just a mark scheme. As well as marking your answers it gives advice and feedback with explanations and solutions.

• a Preview quiz that contains the first six exam questions to try.

• a full New Style quiz. It will take at least one hour to complete but you can do just a few questions, save your answers and return later to complete the quiz.

Preview-Standard
Unit 2 Higher (43602H) PPQ June 11
Unit 3 Higher (43603H) PPQ Practice

New Style-Lite
Unit 2 Higher (43602H) PPQ June 11
Unit 3 Higher (43603H) PPQ Practice

New Style-Standard
Unit 2 Higher (43602H) PPQ June 11

You can complete the Preview-Standard and the New Style quizzes over several sessions. To continue from a previous session, make a new quiz attempt. The answers from your previous attempt are preserved and so you can continue where you left off. You can modify the existing answers and complete any questions you left previously unanswered.

Past Papers and Revision
Doing past papers is an important part of revision. Simply reading model answers is not the way to learn mathematics and certainly not the way to prepare for an exam. Try to answer each question yourself and then check it against a model answer.

The past paper quizzes recognise that you may need prompts on how to get started and how to structure your answer. You are not told precisely how to answer a question, but the quizzes provide sufficient guidance so that you can make a reasonable attempt if you are not clear how to proceed.

Online Revision Tests
Online tests are ideal for revision - you can focus on specific topics and they are marked instantly.

Many online tests use multiple choice questions - popular with students and good if the exam is also multi-choice. Most exam papers use short-answer questions and so it would be a mistake just to practise multi-choice.

Topic Tests There are six tests:

• two Statistics mainly short answer tests, on grouped frequency and probability.
• three Number tests, covering multiplication and division, exchange rate, percentages, sale price, approximation, use of calculator, ratio, mean, standard form and surds.
• one Basic Algebra test, covering substituting, evaluating, simplifying, factorising, solving and Unit 3 trial-and-improvement and areas and perimeters questions.

For links to all the available online tests go to the online tests page.

BBC Bitesize has many multiple choice online tests that are broken down into topics, such as Percentages, Decimals and so on and there are revision activities with clear explanations.

Worked examples - Histograms and Frequency Polygons for Higher Tier
The study booklet on Histograms contains example questions and solutions, including samples from past papers. To download the booklet go to the resources page.

Which Specification?
Are you completing AQA GCSE Maths on or before November 2013. Then you are following the 4360 Modular specification or the 4365 Linear.

Starting June 2014, Maths 4360 is terminally assessed. That means that the three papers, Unit 1, Unit 2 and Unit 3, must be taken in a single exam series, either June or November.

Currently, there is only a limited choice of the Linear and the Unit 3 past papers. There are just the four sets of practice papers and the specimen papers. You are advised to use papers from the older specification 4306/4307.
More Info Are you taking the linear (non-modular) papers? When you revise Statistics (Handling Data) why not test yourself using a modular statistics paper - Module 1 and Unit 1 in AQA? The same with Number, use the Module 3 and Unit 2 papers to test your Number revision. That way you can focus on relevant questions.

Printing Your Past Paper
Once you've downloaded a paper, will it print? A reliable way to start printing a PDF is the keyboard short cut Ctrl+P, which means click inside the PDF document, hold down the Ctrl key and press P.
More Info If you prefer to 'click' to start the print and you cannot see a Print button, there should be a Print option on the PDF context menu. Right-click on the content of the PDF document to display the context menu. Then click the Print option. If there is no option to print, use Ctrl+P.

After doing Ctrl+P, the Print Dialog box will open. Because you are printing a PDF, you should see the Preview picture of the PDF on the right-hand of the box.

If you have a problem printing a PDF with Google Chrome, you may need to disable its PDF Viewer plug-in and enable the Adobe Reader plug-in. For details on that and PDF documents in browsers, go to the home page.

2-Tier and Old 3-Tier GCSE Maths
The AQA 3-tier specification (3300) for GCSE Maths ended with the November 07 exams. However, you may still wish to use 3-tier past papers questions for revision.