TMUA Revision Timetable: An 8-Week Study Plan

This is a practical eight-week TMUA plan you can adapt to your own start date. It assumes your AS-level maths is broadly in place and you can give a few focused sessions each week. If your maths is strong you can compress the early weeks, and if it is shaky, or you have never met logic and proof, you should start earlier and give the content and reasoning phases more room.

The plan at a glance

Week	Focus	What you actually do
1	Set up and audit	Read the specification, mark every topic as solid, shaky or forgotten, confirm your test date
2	Rebuild content	Relearn the forgotten and shaky topics using notes and worked examples
3	Paper 2 foundations	Work through the Notes on Logic and Proof; drill necessary and sufficient conditions and counterexamples
4	Topic practice	Drill questions by topic across both papers, no clock yet, to make techniques automatic
5	Introduce timing	Keep topic practice, but start doing short timed sets of Paper 1 and Paper 2 questions
6	Full timed papers	Sit complete papers to the clock, 20 questions in 75 minutes, review every mistake, log repeat errors
7	Full mocks	Sit Paper 1 and Paper 2 back to back under exam conditions, then review hard
8	Sharpen and rest	Light timed practice on your weak spots, revisit your error log, taper off before the test

How to use each phase

Weeks 1 to 2, content. The audit is the most important hour of the whole plan. You cannot fix what you have not identified, so read the official specification and be honest about the gaps. Rebuild them with our topic-by-topic textbook. For how the specification is organised, see TMUA syllabus and specification.

Week 3, reasoning. This is the week most students skip, and it is the one that separates a good score from an average one. Paper 2 tests logic and proof that school maths barely covers, so give it dedicated time using the free UAT-UK Notes on Logic and Proof. Our guide to Paper 1 vs Paper 2 shows why it needs its own work.

Weeks 4 to 5, technique. Make the maths and the reasoning quick. Practise by topic first so the methods become automatic, then add a clock in short bursts. Keep everything calculator-free from the start, since that is how you sit the real test.

Weeks 6 to 7, timed practice and mocks. Move to full 75-minute papers, then to sitting both back to back so the length feels normal. Review matters more than volume, so analyse every paper before moving on, as described in how to use TMUA past papers.

Week 8, taper. Ease off in the final days. Cramming new content the night before rarely helps and often hurts your sleep, which matters more on the day. Revisit your error log instead.

For the reasoning behind the length of the plan, see how long to prepare for the TMUA, and for the wider method, how to prepare for the TMUA.

Official TMUA resources

The test and its materials are set by UAT-UK. Its pages are the authoritative source, and the tools on tmua.fyi are supplementary to them.

• TMUA preparation materials, including Notes on Mathematics and Notes on Logic and Proof, UAT-UK
• Test dates and registration, UAT-UK
• Booking and specimen tests, Pearson VUE