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JZ Mock Set C is ready

Set C is now up, I have also adjusted a few questions in sets A and B after further reviews. My mock papers are generally more difficult, as I believe for practice purposes, you are better served with more demanding questions. However, my design philosophy is that difficulty comes not from increased calculations or brute force work, but in ways of thinking, traps, misdirections, all of which, are supposed to be logical. Overcoming these, should in principle, improve your logical thinking.

JZ Mock Set B is ready

Another set of mocks done, enjoy, there are a couple of very very hard questions in them!

JZ Mock Set A is ready

These took longer than I had expected to write! It is of course also exam season, therefore I didn't have much spare time either. In any case, here they are, available in both the exam simulator, and for standalone download. I should warn you that these questions are perhaps harder than past exam papers, as I kept scrapping questions that I deemed too easy, but now its definitely leaning on the more difficult side. Oh well, doing these hard questions can only make you stronger!

The solutions are temporary. I will look to update them when I have more time.

Flag questions for correction

In the exam simulator you can now flag a question for correction, if you wish to attempt it again (regardless if it you got it right or wrong) in corrections. This can be useful for questions that you want to be reminded of again for revision.

Added Corrections mode

Now you can do corrections of mistakes of exam paper simulation to help with revision. I made it so that the corrections do not add to mastery and only practice exam paper adds to mastery. The mastery diagram feature in the dashboard is a very early first version design, I expect it to evolve in the way it works over time.

Added untimed practice mode

I have been working on my own mock papers, will expect to be adding a few of them some point next week. In the meantime, I have now added untime practice mode to exam simulator. It means you can practice a paper spread out over a few session, without time limit, have progress saved, should make practicing easier.

Spider mastery diagram and question randomization added

Made first version of spider mastery diagram as a nice visual way to view overall mastery progress. I also added randomization (optional) to simulator, because that's what happens in the real exam. Later, I will look to make the choices also random.

2022, 2023 and specimen papers added to the simulator; paper downloads page

All remaining past papers — 2022, 2023, and the official specimen papers — have been added to the exam simulator. A dedicated paper downloads page has also gone live, so you can grab the PDFs directly if you'd rather work through them on paper.

2019, 2020 and 2021 papers added to the simulator

Three more years' worth of past papers are now available in the exam simulator. Just 2022 and 2023 to go.

Topic tags on questions

Every question in the exam simulator now carries a topic tag (algebra, coordinate geometry, logic, and so on). The dashboard uses these to show you a per-topic strength/weakness breakdown, which is very useful for working out where to focus your next revision session.