Platform Access · TMUA
£795
one-off · 6 months
Every past paper for your exam, fully corrected and tagged with the method that unlocks it, plus a schedule that adapts each week.
Start with the platformOxford MPhil · LSE Teaching Fellow in Econometrics · 14,000 hours
I gather. I analyse. I build.
I read every STEP and TMUA paper ever set and found the handful of methods that keep deciding them, so you start already knowing the patterns instead of discovering them under exam pressure.
The TMUA rewards speed; STEP rewards finding the one idea inside a hard, open problem. The recurring methods are your edge in both.
Act I · Gather
Twenty years of sittings, collected, checked and organised by hand. Every question. Every mark scheme.
54
Papers collected
681
Questions fully worked
211
Methods identified
Act II · Analyse
Once the papers are in, I count. Every question gets tagged with the method that cracks it, sitting by sitting, until what comes up stops being a hunch and starts being a table.
26 of 82 methods
account for 141 of the 280 TMUA questions I have worked.
7 questions
for the method that comes up most, disguised exponentials, across 7 sittings.
TMUA · 2016 to 2023, plus the specimen paper · the 8 methods that come up most
31 of 129 methods
account for 204 of the 401 STEP questions I have worked.
13 questions
for the method that comes up most, limiting equilibrium, across 13 sittings.
STEP · 2006 to 2025 · the 8 methods that come up most
Act III · Build
The engine runs on two inputs: you, and the stats from Act II. Set your exam, your date and your pace, and it puts the methods that come up most at the front.
The plan adapts to what you already know: this is where it becomes yours.
Your STEP plan · 12 weeks · 4 sessions a week
4 sessions this week
When you see on the point of slipping, a ladder or rod resting against a wall, resolve in two directions and take moments about a point that kills a reaction. At each rough contact, set F = μN.
When a projectile just clears a wall, or two bodies collide in the air, treat the axes apart: x = u t cos θ and y = u t sin θ − ½g t2, then eliminate t.
Two masses meeting head-on with restitution e? Write just two equations: conservation of momentum, and speed of separation = e × speed of approach. Then solve the linear pair.
On a definite integral ∫ f(x) dx over [a, b] whose integrand simplifies when you swap the endpoints, substitute x ↦ a + b − x to get a second copy, then add.
The engine rebalances every week as you tick methods off.
A taste of the real thing: the actual plan weighs every method by how often it comes up and how you do.
The Tailor Method
Here is the moment I train. A real exam question, and the split second where its shape gives the method away.
A real TMUA question
Find the minimum value of the function
22x − 2x+3 + 4
The method
Disguised exponentials
Set u = 2x. It collapses to a quadratic.
That one reflex decides 7 TMUA questions. Scroll on.
The power of stats
The method you just set in your plan is not a one-off. The same reflex keeps deciding questions across the years, so drilling it once is high reward: it comes up again and again, and it stays learned.
The one method that comes up most
7 questions across 7 sittings. One reflex to learn.
The engine
The engine crosses two things: how often a method comes up, and how well you know it. What comes up a lot and is not yet solid goes to the front, so your first week spends every session where it pays. That is the whole rule: frequency times mastery.
The papers fix the horizontal. Where each method sits up or down is an example: you set your real levels in Build, above, and the plan reads them.
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Platform Access · TMUA
Every past paper for your exam, fully corrected and tagged with the method that unlocks it, plus a schedule that adapts each week.
Start with the platformKick-off & Debrief · TMUA
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Everything in the platform, plus two one-to-one hours with me: a kick-off that sets the plan, and a mock debrief before the exam.
Book the kick-offWeekly Coaching · TMUA
A weekly hour with me, plus a platform that turns each session into a full week of directed work in between.
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Oxford MPhil · LSE Teaching Fellow in Econometrics · 14,000 hours