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Total Maths Newsletter

Hello Colleague

The summer 2025 exam series has now finished. Congratulations and very well done to you and all your students for completing another academic year. 😊

Our examiners are now busy marking your students’ papers ready for results day. If you or your students would like to learn more about how exams are marked and graded, please head over to our exams explained webpage for information.

Results days for AS and A Level, Core Maths and FSMQ qualifications are:

  • Wednesday 13 August for schools and colleges
  • Thursday 14 August for candidates.

Results days for Entry Level Certificate and GCSE qualifications are:

  • Wednesday 20 August for schools and colleges
  • Thursday 21 August for candidates.

As always, if you have any queries or if we can give you any further support, please let us know. Our role is to support you as you deliver our qualifications.

Neil, Steven, Ruth, Caroline and Amy - your OCR Maths Subject Advisors 

maths@ocr.org.uk
@OCR_Maths
01223 553998
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Summer 2025 question papers and results day information
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Question papers from the summer 2025 series (plus any accompanying answer booklets and/or inserts) are now available to download from Teach Cambridge. If you don't have a Teach Cambridge account yet, your exams officer will be able to set you up. Please keep all summer 2025 exam materials secure by not posting them or solutions anywhere publicly, as many centres will be using these papers for mocks in the coming year.

Mark schemes and examiners’ reports (plus analysis grids for GCSE (9-1) Maths) will all be available on Teach Cambridge from results day for the qualification.

Full information about summer 2025 results for our maths qualifications is available from our ‘Results for general qualifications’ webpage. This includes information about what will be available, when and where to access them.

Remember you’ll also have free access to scripts and Active Results available from results day.

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Discover more about our GCSE (9-1) Maths

If you’d like to find out more about our GCSE (9-1) Maths qualification, book a place on our 30-minute webinars, which will give you all you need to know about the qualification split over 3 separate sessions.

  • Wednesday 2 July – Understanding the assessment
  • Monday 7 July – Content and specification overview
  • Wednesday 9 July – Support and resources
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Each webinar runs from 4–4.30pm and will also include the chance for you to ask any questions that you wish.

Book onto all 3 webinars, or just 1 or 2, as you need. Recordings of each are also available at the link above, if you’re unable to attend any of these sessions.

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Large Data Set 10 for AS & A Level Further Maths B (MEI)
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Large Data Set 10 for AS and A Level Maths B (MEI) will be published shortly. This large data set will be assessed in the AS Maths B (MEI) H630/02 exam in summer 2027 and the A Level Maths B (MEI) H640/02 exam in summer 2028. It'll be available from the ‘Pre-release materials’ area of both Teach Cambridge and the public qualification webpage.

Large Data Set 10 is a refreshed version of Large Data Set 7. For more information and support, please see MEI Curriculum Developer Keith Proffitt’s large data sets blogs ‘Why three large data sets for the MEI specification?’ and ‘Getting started with large data sets’.

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Professional development for next year

Our 2025/26 professional development courses are now being published online. Head over to our maths professional development webpage for more information and to book your place now.

The courses below are coming up early next year.
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  • Tuesday 23 September – Choosing GCSE (9-1) Maths
  • Wednesday 24 September – Choosing A Level Further Maths A
  • Thursday 25 September – Starting To Teach GCSE (9-1) Maths
  • Tuesday 7 October – Level 3 FSMQ: Additional Maths Summer 2025 exam review
  • Wednesday 8 October – Starting To Teach A Level Further Maths B (MEI)
  • Thursday 9 October – AS & A level Maths B (MEI) Summer 2025 exam review

Further 2025/26 professional development courses will be published on the page shortly, so do check back later for more.

Materials from past courses are also available to you to download from Teach Cambridge. Select your qualification, then in the menu go to ‘Training’, then ‘Past training events’.

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Teachers Talk Radio
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We’ll be joining the hosts of Teachers Talk Radio once again for a show on Wednesday, 9 July at 6pm.

The discussion will be focussing on GCSE (9-1) Maths content and how the required topics may need to be changed in any future qualifications for students.

We’ll also be very keen to hear from you during the show with your thoughts about which topics you and your students would like to remain in the content and which topics you would be glad to see removed.

Make sure you listen in and we look forward to helping shape the future with you. 😊

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