Are you thinking of applying to study Mathematics at university? We're running a weekly livestream this summer, talking about maths problems and discussing problem-solving strategies, with a particular focus on Oxford's Mathematics Admissions Test (MAT). The sessions are free and available for everyone.

MAT 2019 past paper, 21 October 2021 at 17:00 UK time

Each week will be themed around a particular set of topics, with a sheet of questions available in advance. Each sheet includes revision material, warm-up problems, some past MAT questions with hints, and extension material that's not related to the MAT. The MAT questions are all taken from the 2013-2017 papers (inclusive), saving the 2018, 2019, and 2020 papers as practice, which we'll cover in three livestreams at the end, just before MAT 2021. After the MAT, three special bonus livestreams will cover the following; unrelated mathematics (to give us all a break from MAT), a look at the 2021 paper, and then finally some Oxford Maths interview questions.

Solutions for the worksheets will be posted here the day after the live session.

Here's what people say;

"This session has been really useful, thank you!!!" - Anonymous attendee

"thank you for doing these livestreams out of your own time, they have helped us all greatly. Without these videos, I have no idea on what I would have done." - Anonymous attendee

"THE LIVESTREAMS ARE AMAZING!! 100000000/10 RECOMMEND" - Anonymous attendee

 

The schedule for the livestream is as follows;

Date	Topic	Worksheet	Livestream	Solutions
05 August	Sequences and series	Web,  PDF	YouTube	Web,  PDF
12 August	Trigonometry	Web,  PDF	YouTube	Web,  PDF
19 August	Geometry	Web,  PDF	YouTube	Web,  PDF
26 August	Graphs & Transformations	Web,  PDF	YouTube	Web,  PDF
02 September	Logarithms and powers	Web,  PDF	YouTube	Web,  PDF
09 September	Integration & Differentiation	Web,  PDF	YouTube	Web,  PDF
16 September	Algebra	Web,  PDF	YouTube	Web,  PDF
23 September	Polynomials	Web,  PDF	YouTube	Web,  PDF
30 September	Primes & Proof	Web,  PDF	YouTube	Web,  PDF
07 October	Recursion	Web,  PDF	YouTube	Web,  PDF
14 October	MAT 2018	Web, PDF	YouTube	Video,  PDF
21 October	MAT 2019	Web, PDF	YouTube
28 October	MAT 2020	Web, PDF
04 November	(completely unrelated to MAT)
11 November	MAT 2021 debrief
18 November	Interview questions

(Details may be changed without notice)

If you want even more MAT livestream content, you can find an archive of the 2020 MAT livestream at the bottom of this page!

Oxford Online Maths Club

You might also like the Oxford Online Maths Club, which is our free and interactive super-curricular maths club for ages (very) roughly 16-18. There are more than 25 episodes that we livestreamed over at www.maths.ox.ac.uk/r/club, and each comes with some further reading to investigate the topics in the livestream in more detail afterwards.

2020 MAT Livestream Archive

Most of the 2020 livestreams looked at MAT questions from 2007 to 2015, with certain questions selected each week and bundled together into a worksheet. In the four weeks before the MAT, the livestreams focused on the past papers from 2016 to 2019. There were also four special livestreams; #010 and #023 just looked at bonus problems (not MAT), #024 reviewed the MAT 2020 paper after the test, and the last livestream #025 contained interview advice and sample problems.

There's no need to watch the previous livestreams in any particular order. For each previous livestream, you can download the worksheet to try the problems that we covered live, and you can either watch the entire video on Panopto, or watch a shorter edited version (just the maths, no chat), uploaded later. There's a YouTube playlist for the maths-only edits here.

#	Worksheet	Full livestream replay	Maths-only edit
025	(no worksheet)	Panopto 025
024	MAT 2020	Panopto 024
023	Worksheet 023	Panopto 023
022	MAT 2019	Panopto 022	All MAT 2019 questions
021	MAT 2018	Panopto 021	All MAT 2018 questions
020	MAT 2017	Panopto 020	All MAT 2017 questions
019	MAT 2016	Panopto 019	All MAT 2016 questions
018	Worksheet 018 (pdf)	"Panopto" 018 (actually YouTube because Panopto was down)	Maths-only edit 018
017	Worksheet 017 (pdf)	Panopto 017	Maths-only edit 017
016	Worksheet 016 (pdf)	Panopto 016	Maths-only edit 016
015	Worksheet 015 (pdf)	Panopto 015	Maths-only edit 015
014	Worksheet 014 (pdf)	Panopto 014	Maths-only edit 014
013	Worksheet 013 (pdf)	Panopto 013	Maths-only edit 013
012	Worksheet 012 (pdf)	Panopto 012	Maths-only edit 012
011	Worksheet 011 (pdf)	Panopto 011	Maths-only edit 011
010	Worksheet 010 (pdf)	Panopto 010 part 1 Panopto 010 part 2	Maths-only edit 010
009	Worksheet 009 (pdf)	Panopto 009	Maths-only edit 009
008	Worksheet 008 (pdf)	Panopto 008	Maths-only edit 008
007	Worksheet 007 (pdf)	Panopto 007	Maths-only edit 007
006	Worksheet 006 (pdf)	Panopto 006	Maths-only edit 006
005	Worksheet 005 (pdf)	Panopto 005	Maths-only edit 005
004	Worksheet 004 (pdf)	Panopto 004	Maths-only edit 004
003	Worksheet 003 (pdf)	Panopto 003	Maths-only edit 003
002	Worksheet 002 (pdf)	Panopto 002 *	Maths-only edit 002 *
001	Worksheet 001 (pdf)	Panopto 001 *	Maths-only edit 001 *

* The quality gets much better after the first two. If you're planning to watch these back, maybe skip 001 and 002. I'm writing this because the first couple have twice as many views as the others, so I'm worried that people are giving up when they see my awful handwriting (it gets better in 003 when I got a graphics tablet!)

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