Senior Maths Challenge Past Papers and Grade Boundaries
Senior Maths Challenge Past Papers
Take our free SMC course
Our free Senior Maths Challenge course takes four complete SMC papers question by question, with a short video hint before every solution so you get the chance to solve it yourself, and the full worked solution when you want it.
This table contains links to past papers for the UKMT Senior Maths Challenge - these papers are hosted at the UKMT website. The most recent papers are usually made available a couple of days after the challenge takes place and may briefly be available at the official website before this table is updated.
| Year | Paper | Solutions | Extended | Video |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Paper | Solutions | Extended | Course · YouTube |
| 2024 | Paper | Solutions | Extended | — |
| 2023 | Paper | Solutions | Extended | Course · YouTube |
| 2022 | Paper | Solutions | Extended | Course · YouTube |
| 2021 | Paper | Solutions | Extended | — |
| 2020 | Paper | Solutions | Extended | Course · YouTube |
| 2019 | Paper | Solutions | Extended | — |
| 2018 | Paper | Solutions | Extended | — |
| 2017 | Paper | Solutions | Extended | — |
| 2016 | Paper | Solutions | Extended | — |
| 2015 | Paper | Solutions | Extended | — |
Senior Maths Challenge Grade Boundaries
Take our Go for Gold course
Aiming for a higher certificate next year? Go for Gold 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.
The table below shows the score needed for each certificate, and for the Kangaroo and Olympiad follow-on rounds, in every year since 2001.
| Year | Bronze | Silver | Gold | Kangaroo | Olympiad | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46 | 57 | 72 | 72 | 104 | 21 Oct (12 days after) |
| 2024 | 49 | 66 | 83 | 83 | 110 | 9 Oct (8 days after) |
| 2023 | 49 | 64 | 80 | 80 | 106 | |
| 2022 | 48 | 62 | 76 | 76 | 100 | |
| 2021 | 49 | 66 | 85 | 85 | 108 | |
| 2020 | 59 | 73 | 91 | 91 | 108 | |
| 2019 | 49 | 61 | 76 | 76 | 100 | |
| 2018 | 53 | 67 | 83 | 83 | 102 | |
| 2017 | 57 | 71 | 86 | 85 | 104 | |
| 2016 | 55 | 71 | 88 | 90 | 106 | |
| 2015 | 50 | 65 | 82 | 86 | 104 | |
| 2014 | 57 | 71 | 84 | 89 | 101 | |
| 2013 | 53 | 67 | 82 | 86 | 100 | |
| 2012 | 49 | 62 | 77 | 82 | 93 | |
| 2011 | 52 | 63 | 79 | 84 | 90 | |
| 2010 | 58 | 70 | 85 | 96 | ||
| 2009 | 54 | 64 | 79 | 91 | ||
| 2008 | 51 | 61 | 74 | 87 | ||
| 2007 | 52 | 61 | 75 | 88 | ||
| 2006 | 57 | 66 | 80 | 91 | ||
| 2005 | 60 | 71 | 84 | 92 | ||
| 2004 | 55 | 66 | 79 | 92 | ||
| 2003 | 61 | 72 | 87 | 98 | ||
| 2002 | 47 | 57 | 70 | 82 | ||
| 2001 | 56 | 67 | 81 | 91 |
SMC Interactive Results Calculator
Got your answers ready? Use our interactive SMC Answer Checker to instantly calculate your score from any past paper and see if you've earned a certificate or qualified for the follow-on rounds.
