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Could you recommend an online course for maths GCSE please

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BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 06/11/2025 20:08

DD has moved to the UK to go to a football academy. They require the students to have maths and English GCSEs. Initially they accepted her Irish junior cert results as equivalent to GCSE but have changed their minds so she has to study them. English is fine but she wants an online maths course that she can do in her own time so that she gets through the maths syllabus quickly and doesn't need to keep going to the academy maths classes.

Any recommendations? I'm happy to pay. She doesn't need to do particularly well, she just needs to pass as soon as possible.

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Muchtoomuchtodo · 06/11/2025 20:13

She won’t be able to take the exams until next May / June.

EducatingArti · 06/11/2025 20:22

Here
https://www.mathsgenie.co.uk/scheme.php
This is a very easy way to work through from easier to harder topics and test yourself on what you know.
I'd say it does need to be combined with lots of practice with past papers though, as while it is good, the questions are on the easier side and exam questions are trickier/can combine more topics.
It is good for getting the basics straight.
I'd follow it with this
https://www.cgpbooks.co.uk/secondary-books/gcse/maths/42mbhd3-mathsbuster-gcse-maths-online
Which gives trickier questions
( There's also a foundation version) as well as past papers.

Maths Genie - Scheme of Work

The Maths Genie Scheme of Learning..

https://www.mathsgenie.co.uk/scheme.php

AwkwardPaws27 · 06/11/2025 20:24

Would they accept an equivalent such as Functional Skills L2?

BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 06/11/2025 21:16

She won’t be able to take the exams until next May / June.

She only started doing the GCSE course the week before half term so I think she's a bit worried she won't pass first try. It was a bit of a push to get her through Junior Cert maths, she's not a natural mathematician.

Would they accept an equivalent such as Functional Skills L2?

I don't think so, at least that option has never been mentioned and there are other students who have failed a GCSE maths or English and they are all required to pass the exams.

I'll pass those links on to her, thanks @EducatingArti

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HawaiiWake · 07/11/2025 16:46

Dr.Frost. Maths at drfrost.org

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