Assessment overview
| Component | Marks | Duration | Weighting | insert text |
Pure mathematics (01) | 100 | 2 hours | 33⅓% | The assessment has a gradient of difficulty throughout the paper and consists of a mix of short and long questions. |
Pure mathematics and statistics (02) | 100 | 2 hours | 33⅓% | The assessment is structured in two sections of approximately 50 marks each: pure mathematics and statistics. Each section has a gradient of difficulty throughout the section and consists of a mix of short and long questions. Some questions will be set on the pre-release data set. |
Pure mathematics and mechanics (03) | 100 | 2 hours | 33⅓% | The assessment is structured in two sections of approximately 50 marks each: pure mathematics and mechanics. Each section has a gradient of difficulty throughout the section and consists of a mix of short and long questions. |
Students must take all components and explore the content in detail to be awarded the OCR A Level in Mathematics A.
Content overview
These overarching themes should be applied, along with associated mathematical thinking and understanding, across the whole of the detailed content in the specification:
- Mathematical argument, language and proof
- Mathematical problem solving
- Mathematical modelling.
Subject content
Pure mathematics
- Proof
- Algebra and functions
- Coordinate geometry in the x-y plane
- Sequences and series
- Trigonometry
- Exponentials and logarithms
- Differentiation
- Integration
- Numerical methods
- Vectors
Statistics
- Statistical sampling
- Data presentation and interpretation
- Probability
- Statistical distributions
- Statistical hypothesis testing
Mechanics
- Quantities and units in mechanics
- Kinematics
- Forces and Newton’s laws
- Moments