ESAT · Every sitting since 2016, decoded

ESAT, decoded for you.

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We read every ESAT paper since 2016 so you don’t have to. Every question carries the tailor’s marks: the method that cracks it, the chapter it lives in, and the other sittings where the same method struck.

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Inside every question

How to solve every question.

3 kinds of move. Every method in the index is tagged with the one it rewards.

Pavlov91 methods

Instant reflex.

See the trigger, fire the move. No thinking time.

Tunnel53 methods

One move at a time.

Guided reasoning: one checkpoint at a time to the end.

Key method150 methods

Recurring strategy.

The move that repeats across sittings, year after year.

Every sitting, one thread

ESAT decoded by year.

8 sittings on one thread, each bar split by the areas the paper drew on. Hover a year and the needle finds it; click to open its stats.

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ESAT’s greatest hits.

Click a focus area to see its top methods. Every method opens its chapter in the Methods library.

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The 10 methods that hit the most past-paper questions, across the whole exam.

Mitosis keeps the chromosome number and makes two cells, meiosis halves it and makes fourKey methodBiologyMembrane Transport, Cell Division & Reproduction8hits Relative atomic mass as an abundance-weighted mean, forwards or reversedTunnelChemistryAtomic Structure, Bonding & the Periodic Table8hits Osmosis moves water toward the more concentrated solutionPavlovBiologyMembrane Transport, Cell Division & Reproduction7hits Electron accounting: turn charge into moles, then read every amount off the half-equationsTunnelChemistryElectrolysis & Metals7hits Classify the structure and bonding, then read off the propertyKey methodChemistryAtomic Structure, Bonding & the Periodic Table7hits Rf equals spot distance over solvent-front distancePavlovChemistryOrganic Chemistry, Separation & Analysis7hits Aqueous electrolysis discharge rules: below hydrogen deposits, halide gives the halogenKey methodChemistryElectrolysis & Metals7hits Rearranging Complex FormulasPavlovPureAlgebra, Functions & Graphs7hits Algebraic Fraction SimplificationPavlovPureAlgebra, Functions & Graphs7hits Alpha and beta decay bookkeeping: fix the alpha count from the mass number firstTunnelPhysicsRadioactivity7hits

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How wide you have to be

No chapter you can skip.

The biggest chapter carries just 7% of the questions, and it takes 8 of them to cover 39%. You cannot revise ESAT by betting on three topics. Every chapter opens in the Methods library.

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Goldmines

1 method ≈ 4–8 questions · 102 of them · learn these first

Mitosis keeps the chromosome number and makes two cells, meiosis halves it and makes four×8 Relative atomic mass as an abundance-weighted mean, forwards or reversed×8 Osmosis moves water toward the more concentrated solution×7

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