Everything that’s included
for Year 12 & 13
Live teaching, examiner marked mocks, exam question workbooks and 7 day support, running from the day your child joins until results day. Below you’ll find a full breakdown of what’s included.
Year 12 builds the foundation. Year 13 wins the grade.
Below you will find exactly what is included in the Year 12 and Year 13 A-Level Maths Ascension programmes. Click on each box for more information.
Teaching
Mandy walks through every topic herself in recorded one to one style lessons. Watch, pause and replay any of them as many times as needed. 43 lessons across the 9 Pure topics.
Pure- The differences between Edexcel, AQA and OCR on that topic
- Exactly what your child needs for their own board, and what tends to catch students out
- How to apply it to real exam questions
All Applied topics are covered with full exam question breakdowns, so Statistics and Mechanics are trained the same way as Pure.
Every Year 12 topic is covered end to end, and every lesson stays in the library until results day.
Two live interactive online sessions every week with Madalena, an hour each, focused on exam question training. Students can speak directly and ask questions throughout, and questions are completed under timed conditions.
- The content, taught properly
- Exam questions, increasing in difficulty
- Exactly how examiners reward the marks
Homework is set during the live session and assigned in the classroom the same week. Your child then has seven days to complete and submit it.
The seven day window is deliberate. It means the work is practised while the lesson is still fresh, and it tells us straight away whether the content has genuinely landed, rather than waiting for a mock to find out.
The same system is used to set targeted work. When a mock or a marked piece of homework exposes a weak area, your child is assigned specific work on that topic, rather than being left to spot the gap themselves.
Every lesson is recorded and added to the library within 24 hours, so a missed session is never a lost one. Students can rewatch any lesson as many times as they need, right up to the exams.
Students are expected to catch up on anything they miss and tick it off in the system. That means we know exactly where every student is at any point, and a missed lesson gets picked up straight away instead of quietly turning into a gap.
Every question type is walked through in full: the wording, the timing, and exactly how to approach it. Each walkthrough also lists what the question is testing, so your child knows what to reach for the moment they see it.
There should not be a question type your child meets in the exam that has not been covered here.
A workbook for every topic, packed with real exam questions and full answers. Your child works through the pack until the topic is genuinely secure rather than just familiar.
Every question type for that topic sits inside the pack, so nothing is met for the first time on exam day. Algebra, Surds and Indices alone runs to 84 pages.
Every topic comes with its own set of practice questions, followed by real exam questions split by board, Edexcel, OCR and AQA, and then full question packs.
Exam papers are not written topic by topic, so we spent six months pulling apart every past paper in existence and reorganising every single question by topic. It means that for whatever topic your child is working on, they can sit down and work through every question ever asked on it.
Most students only ever use their calculator to get an answer. We train it as an exam tool: how to check work, how to verify an answer in seconds, and which functions win marks under time pressure.
Every Casio model is covered, the fx-991CW, the CG50 and the CG100, each with its own videos, and we show how to apply them to the hardest topics on the course rather than just which buttons to press.
Applied is where most students quietly lose marks, so Statistics and Mechanics each get their own lessons, worked through on real exam questions rather than taught as theory.
There are hours of walkthroughs inside each one. It is elite level practice on the hardest areas of A-Level Maths, and it is where real confidence on Applied comes from.
In the run up to the exams the timetable steps up. Live lessons run back to back, right through to exam day, so nobody is left revising alone at the point it matters most.
By then the mocks have shown exactly where the marks are going, so these sessions go straight at the weak areas rather than starting the course again.
session
revision
session
revision
session
DAY
An example run in to one paper. Live sessions Saturday, Monday and Wednesday, targeted revision in between, and a final session the day before.
Exams and feedback
A full mock exam at regular points through the year, written in the real exam format and marked by an active Edexcel examiner, against the real mark scheme.
After every mock, your child sits down one to one with Mandy or Madalena to go through the paper: what was scored, what was lost, and exactly why. They come away with a short list of what to work on next, and that list is what the following weeks of targeted work are built from.
Every paper your child could want, including several they cannot get hold of anywhere else.
- Every past paper, across all three boards.
- Restricted papers, released only to teachers, including the most recent exams that are not publicly available.
- Predicted papers for the coming exams.
- Challenge papers, for stretching well past the standard question.
- A* papers, for students pushing for the very top grade.
- Unseen mock exams, so nothing has been attempted before.
We also write and publish our own predicted papers each year, so your child can sit full mocks built on where we expect the marks to fall.
Support and planning
Everything sits in one place, organised by year and by topic, with progress tracked as your child works through it. Lessons, recordings, resources, papers and the timetable, all in the same system.
So there is never a question of what to do next. Your child can see exactly what has been covered and what is left, and so can you.
Every lesson is ticked off as it is completed and every course carries its own progress bar, so what has been covered and what is left is visible at a glance, to your child and to you.
The full timetable is published up front: every session, the date, the time and the topic, with the Zoom links in the same place.
That is what lets your child prepare. Before each live session they can see the topic coming, watch the lessons on it in the library and attempt a few practice questions, so they arrive ready to work rather than hearing it for the first time.
Support runs seven days a week. Students can ask questions directly on the platform, with seven day access to Mandy herself, or in the year group WhatsApp chat. Questions get answered as they come up rather than saved for the next lesson, and parents have the same access.
Each family also gets its own group chat with Mandy. Parents and students can ask questions any time, share mock results, ask for feedback, or flag something coming up at school, so the whole family stays in the loop on progress.
Your child joins a private community of students all working towards the same grade, on Skool and in WhatsApp groups. Questions, mocks, tests or just needing a hand with something, there is always somebody there.
It is also the room they want to be in. The student answering them in that group is often heading for the same course at the same university.
The entire Year 13 library opens over the summer. Your child can work through the whole second year before school has taught a single lesson of it.
So they walk into Year 13 already ahead of the class, closing the gap to an A* before the year even starts rather than chasing it in the final few months. What everyone else meets for the first time in September is revision by then.
Teaching
Mandy walks through every topic herself in recorded one to one style lessons. Watch, pause and replay any of them as many times as needed. 51 lessons across the 9 Pure topics.
Pure- The differences between Edexcel, AQA and OCR on that topic
- Exactly what your child needs for their own board, and what tends to catch students out
- How to apply it to real exam questions
All Applied topics are covered with full exam question breakdowns, so Statistics and Mechanics are trained the same way as Pure.
Every Year 13 topic is covered end to end, and every lesson stays in the library until results day.
Two live interactive online sessions every week with Mandy, 1 hour 15 minutes each, focused on exam question training. Students can speak directly and ask questions throughout, and questions are completed under timed conditions.
- The content, taught properly
- Exam questions, increasing in difficulty
- Exactly how examiners reward the marks
Homework is set during the live session and assigned in the classroom the same week. Your child then has seven days to complete and submit it.
The seven day window is deliberate. It means the work is practised while the lesson is still fresh, and it tells us straight away whether the content has genuinely landed, rather than waiting for a mock to find out.
The same system is used to set targeted work. When a mock or a marked piece of homework exposes a weak area, your child is assigned specific work on that topic, rather than being left to spot the gap themselves.
Every lesson is recorded and added to the library within 24 hours, so a missed session is never a lost one. Students can rewatch any lesson as many times as they need, right up to the exams.
Students are expected to catch up on anything they miss and tick it off in the system. That means we know exactly where every student is at any point, and a missed lesson gets picked up straight away instead of quietly turning into a gap.
Every question type is walked through in full: the wording, the timing, and exactly how to approach it. Each walkthrough also lists what the question is testing, so your child knows what to reach for the moment they see it.
There should not be a question type your child meets in the exam that has not been covered here.
A workbook for every topic, packed with real exam questions and full answers. Your child works through the pack until the topic is genuinely secure rather than just familiar.
Every question type for that topic sits inside the pack, so nothing is met for the first time on exam day. Algebra, Surds and Indices alone runs to 84 pages.
Every topic comes with its own set of practice questions, followed by real exam questions split by board, Edexcel, OCR and AQA, and then full question packs.
Exam papers are not written topic by topic, so we spent six months pulling apart every past paper in existence and reorganising every single question by topic. It means that for whatever topic your child is working on, they can sit down and work through every question ever asked on it.
Most students only ever use their calculator to get an answer. We train it as an exam tool: how to check work, how to verify an answer in seconds, and which functions win marks under time pressure.
Every Casio model is covered, the fx-991CW, the CG50 and the CG100, each with its own videos, and we show how to apply them to the hardest topics on the course rather than just which buttons to press.
Applied is where most students quietly lose marks, so Statistics and Mechanics each get their own lessons, worked through on real exam questions rather than taught as theory.
There are hours of walkthroughs inside each one. It is elite level practice on the hardest areas of A-Level Maths, and it is where real confidence on Applied comes from.
In the run up to the exams the timetable steps up. Live lessons run back to back, right through to exam day, so nobody is left revising alone at the point it matters most.
By then the mocks have shown exactly where the marks are going, so these sessions go straight at the weak areas rather than starting the course again.
session
revision
session
revision
session
DAY
An example run in to one paper. Live sessions Saturday, Monday and Wednesday, targeted revision in between, and a final session the day before.
Exams and feedback
A full mock exam at regular points through the year, written in the real exam format and marked by an active Edexcel examiner, against the real mark scheme.
After every mock, your child sits down one to one with Mandy or Madalena to go through the paper: what was scored, what was lost, and exactly why. They come away with a short list of what to work on next, and that list is what the following weeks of targeted work are built from.
Every paper your child could want, including several they cannot get hold of anywhere else.
- Every past paper, across all three boards.
- Restricted papers, released only to teachers, including the most recent exams that are not publicly available.
- Predicted papers for the coming exams.
- Challenge papers, for stretching well past the standard question.
- A* papers, for students pushing for the very top grade.
- Unseen mock exams, so nothing has been attempted before.
We also write and publish our own predicted papers each year, so your child can sit full mocks built on where we expect the marks to fall.
We have analysed every A-Level Maths paper in existence since 2017, ten years of Edexcel, AQA and OCR, and mapped how many marks each topic earned in every single one.
That becomes a published document each year showing where the marks are most likely to sit, so revision time goes where it counts rather than being spread evenly across a topic worth five marks and one worth forty.
Support and planning
Everything sits in one place, organised by year and by topic, with progress tracked as your child works through it. Lessons, recordings, resources, papers and the timetable, all in the same system.
So there is never a question of what to do next. Your child can see exactly what has been covered and what is left, and so can you.
Every lesson is ticked off as it is completed and every course carries its own progress bar, so what has been covered and what is left is visible at a glance, to your child and to you.
The full timetable is published up front: every session, the date, the time and the topic, with the Zoom links in the same place.
That is what lets your child prepare. Before each live session they can see the topic coming, watch the lessons on it in the library and attempt a few practice questions, so they arrive ready to work rather than hearing it for the first time.
Support runs seven days a week. Students can ask questions directly on the platform, with seven day access to Mandy herself, or in the year group WhatsApp chat. Questions get answered as they come up rather than saved for the next lesson, and parents have the same access.
Each family also gets its own group chat with Mandy. Parents and students can ask questions any time, share mock results, ask for feedback, or flag something coming up at school, so the whole family stays in the loop on progress.
Your child joins a private community of students all working towards the same grade, on Skool and in WhatsApp groups. Questions, mocks, tests or just needing a hand with something, there is always somebody there.
It is also the room they want to be in. The student answering them in that group is often heading for the same course at the same university.
How we make all of this possible.
The A-Level Ascension System
Every student follows this exact process, whichever year they join in.
Strong foundations
We close every gap with unlimited resources, practice question packs and recorded lessons your child can rewatch any time.
Structured routine
A weekly study system with routine mock exams, homework, and exam questions practised under timed conditions.
Examiner level thinking
Knowing what to write, when to write it, and how to maximise marks. Students walk in already familiar with what the examiner expects.
Unlimited support
Your child never sits stuck. Unlimited messaging, regular check ins, and instant help via WhatsApp.
The method behind our A and A* results
01Watch the video lessons
Every topic taught from the ground up, rewatchable as many times as needed. The aim is that your child understands the maths rather than memorising a method they cannot adapt.
02Practice and real exam questions
Practice questions first to build the skill, then real exam questions on the same topic, so the jump to exam wording happens here and not on exam day.
03Two weekly live lessons
Two sessions a week, live, working through exam questions on the board. This is where technique is taught: how to read a question, where the marks sit and what to write down.
04Application training
A workbook for every topic, worked through against the clock. Timing is the thing most students never train, and it is the most common reason strong students drop marks.
05Regular mock tests
Full papers at regular points through the year, marked by an active Edexcel examiner. Each one shows exactly which topics are costing marks, then a feedback session goes through the paper question by question and sets the areas to improve before the next mock.
06Structured routine
Train like an athlete. Regular, consistent practice is the key to an A or A*, topic after topic, right through to results day.
Around four to six hours a week
Short, targeted sessions on a clear weekly structure, built to fit around school rather than add to it. An inefficient self studier often spends eight to twelve hours to achieve less.
lesson
set
study
lesson
practice
or rewatch
Every live lesson is recorded and added to the library within 24 hours.
Wednesday 26 May 2027 · Paper 1: Pure Mathematics 1, afternoon session.
Provisional date from the Pearson Edexcel summer 2027 timetable.
What makes A-Level Ascension different.
Six things a tutor, a textbook and a YouTube playlist cannot give your child together.
1. The UK’s Best Teaching
We review hundreds of applications to bring together the best teachers in the UK.
- ✓Year 12 led by Madalena
- ✓Master’s in Education, Oxford University
- ✓Year 13 led by Mandy
- ✓MSc Mathematics and Statistics
- ✓Master’s in Actuarial Science
2. Real Exam Training
Schools teach the topic. We train the paper: mark schemes, examiner expectations, timing and the exact question types your child’s board sets.
- ✓Multiple weekly live lessons
- ✓Practice with difficult questions from day 1
- ✓Interactive, students can ask questions any time
- ✓Questions under timed conditions to mimic the exam
3. Full Video Course
The full video library Year 12 & 13, predicted papers, exam packs and an AI generator for unlimited practice. Nothing to hunt for, nothing left to buy.
4. Regular Mock Tests
A full mock at regular points, marked by an active examiner against the real scheme, with feedback that shows precisely where marks were lost.
5. Your child is never left stuck
Direct WhatsApp access to Mandy, every question answered within 24 hours, plus a private A* community running seven days a week.
6. You see the progress, not just the grade
Every mock, homework and topic test is logged so you can check where your child stands at any moment, and a 1 to 1 review with Mandy explains it.
The questions parents ask at this point.
Does my child get individual time and support?
Yes. Alongside the weekly live lessons, your child has unlimited message support with a 24 hour response, so questions are answered as they come up rather than building between lessons. Every student is monitored personally, and you receive regular progress reviews.
What if my child misses a lesson?
Every session is recorded and added to the library, so your child can catch up in full and rewatch any lesson as many times as they need, right up to their exams.
What if the school teaches topics in a different order?
That is completely fine. The full video library covers every topic for both years, so your child can follow their school's order and use us to go deeper, fill gaps and train exam technique.
Can my child really jump two to three grades?
We see it regularly, and major improvement in the first few months is common. For many students the gap between a C and an A comes down to exam technique and applying what they already know under exam conditions.
How much involvement do I need as a parent?
As much as you would like, and not more than that. Mocks are marked with clear feedback so you can see exactly how your child is progressing, and you have a WhatsApp support chat with the team, so you can check in with any questions at any time.
Are there discounts or payment options?
Places are limited and the price is final, but interest free finance is available through Klarna to spread the cost. If your situation needs a conversation, ask us and we will help where we can.
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