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A short list of revision guides, practice books and calculators that work well alongside our apps — picked for each exam board.

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Revision Guides by Board

CGP's Year 1 and Year 2 guides, one per exam board.

Revise each topic with free notes →
Edexcel CGP A-Level Maths Edexcel Complete Revision & Practice

CGP A-Level Maths Edexcel Complete Revision & Practice

Pure, Statistics and Mechanics, with video solutions

Covers the same Edexcel content as the app's notes, from proof and calculus to hypothesis tests and moments. Read a page, then quiz yourself on that subtopic in the app.

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AQA CGP A-Level Maths AQA Complete Revision & Practice

CGP A-Level Maths AQA Complete Revision & Practice

Pure, Statistics and Mechanics, with video solutions

For students who chose AQA in the app. Use it alongside the AQA topic list and its large data set questions.

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OCR A CGP A-Level Maths OCR Complete Revision & Practice

CGP A-Level Maths OCR Complete Revision & Practice

Pure, Statistics and Mechanics for OCR A

For students who chose OCR A in the app. Each section lines up with a tile, so you can revise a topic here and then practise it.

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MEI CGP A-Level Maths OCR MEI Complete Revision & Practice

CGP A-Level Maths OCR MEI Complete Revision & Practice

Pure, Statistics and Mechanics for MEI

For students who chose MEI in the app, including the MEI-specific statistics and modelling content.

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Exam Practice

Long written questions and full papers — the part an app can't mark.

Warm up with free practice questions →
CGP A-Level Maths Edexcel Exam Practice Workbook

CGP A-Level Maths Edexcel Exam Practice Workbook

Exam-style questions, answers included

Practise the multi-mark written answers — proofs, integration by parts, projectile problems — after the app's quizzes have the methods secure.

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CGP A-Level Maths AQA Exam Practice Workbook

CGP A-Level Maths AQA Exam Practice Workbook

Exam-style questions, answers included

The AQA equivalent: full written working for the topics you've quizzed in the app, marked against the answers at the back.

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Full papers Pearson REVISE Edexcel A Level Maths Practice Papers Plus

Pearson REVISE Edexcel A Level Maths Practice Papers Plus

Full timed papers with worked solutions

Once the app's mock tests feel comfortable, sit a full timed paper to practise pacing across a two-hour exam.

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Course Textbooks

Pearson's Edexcel student books, one per part of the course.

Browse the Pure Year 1 and Year 2 topics →
Pearson Edexcel Pure Mathematics Year 1/AS Textbook

Pearson Edexcel Pure Mathematics Year 1/AS Textbook

Pearson course book, with e-book

Matches the app's Pure Year 1 tile: algebra, coordinate geometry, trigonometry, differentiation, integration and exponentials, with full worked examples.

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Pearson Edexcel Pure Mathematics Year 2 Textbook

Pearson Edexcel Pure Mathematics Year 2 Textbook

Pearson course book, with e-book

Matches the Pure Year 2 tile: functions, sequences, further trigonometry, parametrics, differential equations and numerical methods.

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Pearson Edexcel Statistics & Mechanics Year 1/AS Textbook

Pearson Edexcel Statistics & Mechanics Year 1/AS Textbook

Pearson course book, with e-book

Covers the Statistics and Mechanics tiles for Year 1, including the large data set, sampling, the binomial distribution, kinematics and forces.

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Exam Calculators

A level papers expect a calculator with statistical distributions.

Statistical distributions notes →
Recommended Casio fx-991CW+ Scientific Calculator with Case

Casio fx-991CW+ Scientific Calculator with Case

ClassWiz with normal and binomial distributions

Calculates binomial and normal probabilities directly, as the A level papers expect. That speeds up the distribution and hypothesis-testing questions in the app.

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Casio fx-CG50 Graphic Calculator (UK)

Casio fx-CG50 Graphic Calculator (UK)

Colour graphing calculator

A graphing option for sketching curves and checking intersections, useful across the Pure tiles and for exploring the large data set.

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