STEP & TMUA · Oxford MPhil · LSE Teaching Fellow in Econometrics

I turned twenty years of papers into data. So you get in.

I gather. I analyse. I build.

I read every STEP and TMUA paper ever set and turned them into the handful of methods that keep deciding them, so you walk in already knowing the patterns, instead of meeting 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

Every STEP and TMUA past paper ever set.

Twenty years of sittings, collected, checked and organised by hand. Every question. Every mark scheme.

54

Papers collected

655

Questions fully worked

210

Methods identified

Act II · Analyse

I analyse what actually comes up, year after year.

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.

25 of 82 methods

account for 138 of the 274 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

2016’16
2017’17
2018’18
2019’19
2020’20
2021’21
2022’22
2023’23
SpecimenSpec
Disguised exponentials: 7 questions across 7 sittings
Integral-defined sums: 7 questions across 3 sittings
First wrong line of a proof: 7 questions across 6 sittings
Counterexample to 'for all': 7 questions across 5 sittings
Necessary vs sufficient: 7 questions across 4 sittings
Mixed sin/cos equations: 7 questions across 5 sittings
Factor and remainder theorem: 6 questions across 5 sittings
Discriminant conditions: 6 questions across 5 sittings

31 of 128 methods

account for 193 of the 381 STEP questions I have worked.

12 questions

for the method that comes up most, projectile motion, across 12 sittings.

STEP · 2006 to 2025 · the 8 methods that come up most

2006’06
2008’08
2009’09
2010’10
2011’11
2012’12
2013’13
2014’14
2015’15
2016’16
2017’17
2018’18
2019’19
2020’20
2021’21
2022’22
2023’23
2024’24
2025’25
Projectile motion: 12 questions across 12 sittings
Limiting equilibrium: 11 questions across 11 sittings
Collisions on a line: 10 questions across 9 sittings
Transformed variable, CDF: 10 questions across 9 sittings
Reflect the interval: 8 questions across 7 sittings
Telescoping sums: 8 questions across 7 sittings
Parametrise the conic: 7 questions across 6 sittings
Fold an infinite tail: 7 questions across 7 sittings

Act III · Build

I build a revision plan adapted to you.

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.

Exam
Weeks until your exam
Sessions a week
Where do you stand?
Mechanics
Integration

The plan adapts to what you already know: this is where it becomes yours.

Your STEP plan · 12 weeks · 4 sessions a week

Week 1 Fully open

4 sessions this week

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.

Build your schedule, free → No account needed. Your first week comes fully open.

The Tailor Method

Every question hides a method. I teach your brain to see it.

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

One method, dozens of questions.

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

Disguised exponentials across seven TMUA sittings One method at the centre, linked by rays to the seven TMUA sittings where it appears: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023 and the specimen paper. Disguised exponentials

7 questions across 7 sittings. One reflex to learn.

The engine

Built on two things: you, and what the exam rewards most.

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.

How the engine ranks methods: frequency against mastery A plane with how often a method comes up along the horizontal, and how well you know it up the vertical. Eight real TMUA methods are placed by their true frequency. The methods that come up most and are not yet solid fall in the highlighted lower-right, which is where week one starts. Mastery is an example you set for yourself in Build. → your week 1 starts here how often it comes up in the papers how well you know it 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  1. 1Disguised exponentials7 questions
  2. 2Factor and remainder theorem6 questions
  3. 3Binomial general term5 questions
  4. 4Two-stage optimisation5 questions
  5. 5System to one quadratic4 questions
  6. 6Vieta's formulas4 questions
  7. 7Triangles and unfolded nets3 questions
  8. 8Binomial in disguise3 questions

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.

Work with me

Choose your exam. Get the full engine.

Start with the platform, add as much of me as you want. The engine you just saw is in every option.

Preparing for

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 platform
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Kick-off & Debrief · TMUA

£1,295 one-off · platform + 2 sessions

Split into 2-3 payments with Klarna at checkout.

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.

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Weekly Coaching · TMUA

£1,195 per month · cancel anytime

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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