Get Ready for the Senior Maths Challenge
Learn to solve the hardest SMC questions yourself, with a hint before every solution.
If you’re preparing for the Senior Maths Challenge, take this totally free course where you can work through real past SMC questions with video hints and solutions.
The Senior Maths Challenge takes you beyond school maths and into advanced problem solving, and has some very challenging and fun questions. Working through complete past papers is one of the best ways to prepare for it.
This course contains four complete Senior Maths Challenge papers. That’s 100 questions, each with a hint and solutions video, and it’s totally free.
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A Hint First, Then the Full Solution
Every question in this course has two videos. You can have a go at the question yourself first, then watch the short hint video. Then go back to the question and try again and once you think you have the answer or are genuinely stuck you can move on to the full solution video.
Using hints in this way is a great way to prepare as it gives you the best chance to work out the answers for yourself. Spending time getting stuck and thinking hard is the best way to get better at maths and problem-solving so it’s much better to have a nudge in the right direction than just seeing a complete solution.
Which papers are included
The course currently includes the following four full papers and we plan to add more over time.
Senior Maths Challenge 2020, 2022, 2023, 2025
Want to be taught the topics too?
Our recommended starting point for SMC preparation is the Go for Gold course. That starts with the techniques behind the questions, covering indices and surds, prime factorisations and clever factorisations, then sets you 75 original questions of its own to practise on.
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Copyright notice. Questions from past maths challenge papers are included in these courses with permission from the UK Mathematics Trust, and may not be copied or made available elsewhere except in accordance with their policy on the use of their intellectual property.