The 8-Week IGCSE Add Math Revision Plan (Free)

This is the revision plan we run with our own students, published free and in full. No sign-up, no locked PDF, use it, share it, print it. It assumes roughly 5–6 hours a week alongside normal school, and it is built around one principle: topic revision earns the grade, paper practice protects it.

How the plan is structured

• Weeks 1–4: systematic topic coverage. All 14 topics, prioritised so the heaviest-weighted come first while there’s energy and time to spare.
• Weeks 5–7: past papers under exam conditions with the marking-and-error-log routine.
• Week 8: targeted repair and taper.
• Throughout: two 10-minute formula recall drills per week, and at least 40% of all practice done calculator-free for Paper 1.

Each topic block = read your notes for the topic → work 10–15 exam-style questions → mark honestly → re-do failures from a blank page two days later.

Week 1. Calculus I

Differentiation: the three rules, tangents and normals, stationary points. The single biggest mark source in 0606, it gets the first and freshest week. Use the differentiation technique guide as your routine checklist.

Week 2. Calculus II + Trigonometry I

Integration, area under curves, kinematics (technique guide). Then begin trigonometry: exact values, graphs, and the identity proofs.

Week 3. Trigonometry II + Quadratics + Logs

Trig equations and the R-formula (technique). Quadratic functions, completing the square, discriminant, inequalities. Logs and exponentials including linear-form reduction.

Week 4. The remaining nine topics, triaged

Two blocks on your personally weakest of: functions, polynomials, modulus equations and graphs, simultaneous equations, straight lines, circle geometry (new topic, don’t skip), circular measure, P&C, series, vectors. One fast block reviewing the rest. Be honest in the triage, avoided topics are surrendered marks.

Weeks 5–7. The paper engine

Two full papers per week, timed, alternating Paper 1 (non-calculator!) and Paper 2. After each: mark with the real scheme, log every dropped mark as knowledge / technique / care, and re-do failed questions cold later in the week. Expect your percentage to climb roughly 5–10 points across these three weeks, this phase, not the reading phase, is where grades move. Keep a running comparison against your target threshold.

Week 8. Repair and taper

Days 1–3: attack the top two categories in your error log, by now they’re unmistakable (usually two items from the common mistakes list). Days 4–5: one final full paper each, best exam simulation you can manage. Days 6–7: light formula recall, sleep, stop. Cramming past this point trades accuracy for anxiety.

Make it stick

Put the blocks in a real calendar before week 1, unscheduled plans dissolve on contact with school life. Parents: the most useful support is protecting the time slots, not supervising the maths.

And if the plan keeps stalling, usually because nobody is checking the working, that’s the gap a weekly 1-to-1 class closes. Teacher Rig runs students through exactly this plan with line-by-line marking feedback (RM80/hr, 1.5-hr classes, online anywhere in Malaysia). The first hour is a free trial: message us on WhatsApp.