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I really enjoyed the Mathsaurus MAT course and found it very helpful for preparing for the Oxford MAT. The lessons on the short-answer questions, including questions 1A to 1J, were clear and well structured. I liked how each question was broken down step by step, with the reasoning behind the methods explained rather than just giving the final answer. The teaching style made the questions feel much more approachable, and I gained more confidence with algebra, polynomials, sequences, calculus, and the kinds of problem-solving needed for the MAT. I especially appreciated being able to work through past-paper-style questions and see how to approach them logically. Overall, This is a great resource for anyone preparing for the Oxford MAT. It helped me improve my problem-solving and made the short-answer section feel much less intimidating.

it really helped me with every thing

I think it was just really good, because I'm sure it'll help me on my PMC (primary math challenge)

I like how I had to do a few practice questions after going through each topic, ensuring that the methods I learnt stuck.

This was a fantastic course for my overall SMC preparation. Last year, I was disappointed by stopping short & scraping the threshold for a Gold Certificate. Having reviewed this course early in my preparation, I scored a 125, qualifying for BMO1 as Best in School.

There are really good problems that help me get better and the solutions show more ways of solving a problem

Really Helpful Course, and the walkthroughs really help in giving a new insight of a way to approach a question, which I believe is crucial for Exams like these, to give us a general approach to different types of questions, and can be applied in a lot of places. 9.8/10

It helped me get better at maths

I love how clear the solutions are

overall good.

I've taken part in UKMT challenges throughout my years at secondary and always achieved bronze but with the help of the free SMC course and a few hours of practice I achieved gold on my first year of the senior maths challenge! The structure of the courses is really well thought out and approachable so I'll definitely make use of the kangaroo course too! I could not recommend Mathsaurus enough! :))

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I liked the videos and different challenges

it helped me understand the quick tricks to making the problems easier and also taught me to approach problems from different angles

My favourite topic was most probably the reasoning with digits as it improved my problem solving alot. I haven't done the senior maths challenge yet but I have improved alot so I think I will do well.

The course was really helpful and helped me understand concepts I'm not so familiar with previously. Solutions to questions are explained very clearly.

The explanation videos helped me understand the underlying principles, rather than case by case solving

I liked the fact that the course gave us the option to try the question without any hints, then allowed you to select your answer once the hint was given and then there was a worked solution

Great course. I feel like it covered key topics which I needed as I was in a pinch with the maths challenge so soon.

Thank you for this course! The step-by-step solution walkthrough and hints were very helpful for learning how to structure my thought process when doing the harder questions and also learning about the many small tricks to speed up math will also be very helpful for the Senior Maths Challenge. Highly recommend!

The way it is explained is clear and well thought out not being too complicated or needing to go back and learn new things

this course could help me prepare for the 11+ as I am only 8!

The test can be useful for all sorts of maths challengs. Mr Kevin Olding definitely "locked the numbers" in our head. Must try if you want to get high marks on all tests to do with maths.

Easy to navigate and helped a lot for going through hard problems. Video solutions were interactive and went through the important thinking process as well as tips for the future which really helps improve and become a better problem solver.

I loved the introduction to important topics and found it made the rest of the course much easier and helped me solve problems much faster.

That is very helpful for me to understand the math.

Thank you for your videos! I am learning a lot from them.

I think the material you provided for the 11+ is excellent. The 11+ course definitely helped improve my son's maths and helped him get into his first-choice secondary school.

I liked the geometry problem solving questions

I really enjoyed this course because it comprehensively explained many high value topics which could appear in the Senior maths challenge. It also greatly improved my problem solving skills so now I can focus on bmo preparation!

I like how you put an explanation for each question

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The challenges you put in your questions is at another level. In today’s world of AI, your maths problems help students how to thing logically .

prepared me for TMUA

I loved the logic puzzles

I think that doing this course helped me improve my problem solving, and now once I have good problem solving and logic skills developed, all the maths I have to do in the future will be a lot easier and i will b able to solve a lot trickier problems in the future

This course is great for preliminary preparation for the IMC! It covered a variety of topics, for which the video explanations were very helpful. I also found each quiz similar to real IMC style questions.

My child manages to finish this course. I really appreciate your help.

I love it 😄

I love this course, it is really preparing me

Great

I wouldn't study JMC properly before because i didn't know where to start, and i'd always get frustrated doing an entire past paper because i felt too difficult, but i can just get a pen and paper + open this on my laptop and start. I also like how it gives a hint if you know the answer or not and makes you rethink your answer, and that you can learn a lot from the solution

Enjoyed and great learning.

A very useful course that helps prepare children for the eleven plus effectively.

I liked your solutions and hints for the questions and the questions were challenging and hard but not to hard

I got a silver award this year and a bronze award last year just from preparing on Mathsaurus! I highly recommend using this website if you want to do well on the UKMT!

My son got a gold in this year's junior kangaroo, having taken Kevin's classes for both the JMC and the kangaroo. He's absolutely delighted, as are his school, and it's a great lesson for him in working hard and achieving something on the back of this.

I got into JMC Kangaroos and got gold and top of my school and felt like I aced it after using the Mathsaurus Kangaroos course for FREE to revise - a big leap from getting bronze in Kangaroos last time!

Good teaching and helped make tricky questions easier to understand!

This is about a month after I got my JMC result - bronze. After doing questions on Mathsaurus every day, and here I am, with an average score of gold and qualifying for Kangaroo and Olympiad (fluctuating between them at the moment). You can make loads of progress using Mathsaurus and learn loads of JMC techniques, like finding patterns with small numbers and scaling them up, to using theorems and algebra to make sure you find the correct answer efficiently. The format (question, hint, answer, solution) encourages you to try your best before you get the full solution, so you get your best shot at the questions. Use this website if you need help revising for JMC (like me). If you aren't doing the JMC, these are great exercises for your noodle and fun, too, so you'll enjoy doing them. I hope we'll get gold together in the next JMC!

Explanations really helped me to learn

The explanation to some of the more challenging questions was very helpful. Hoping to take the lessons from these challenges to the actual First Maths Challenge coming up. Thank you for the details explanations!

All of the solutions were really nicely explained and the hints given on the first paper were really helpful. It has been a great practice for the Kangaroo and I am feeling a little bit more confident.

really helpful with the hint

This course definitely boosted my confidence and problem solving skills. The explanations were clear and even if I got the answer right, I would still listen to the explanations. I think that helped me the most.

Loved it! Not sure if you should do it? Do it.

I loved how the teacher of the course explained harder and trickier problems. Also I liked the fact that you can take a hint if you were not confident enough about any of the problems. I can't wait until I get to do the MY FIRST MATHS CHALLENGE 2026!

I struggled with understanding what the questions were asking me in the first place. After watching the hints (which are VERY well thought out) and practising more questions, I started solving the problems independently. Thanks, Mathsaurus!

Helped me so much and explanations to the problems are so easy to follow! 10/10 would absolutely recommend.

I just wanted to reach out and say that my daughter followed your course, and yesterday, we found out she achieved a Gold award and was invited to the Olympiad. She is only in Year 6, so this is a huge achievement and a wonderful source of affirmation and motivation for her. As a parent, you always believe in your child’s abilities, but this has developed real confidence in herself and her own potential. Thank you so much for the part you played in her journey.

My daughter won a silver medal and global distinction in the 2026 Cayley Olympiad. Kevin's classes helped her understand how to structure her answers properly (which is the key to this kind of test). Kevin is simply one of the most effective (and likable) maths teacher in the world! A recording of each class is sent out after each lesson- so that parents can enjoy them too :) Paul Karvandi, 16th May 2026

Awesome website, would 100% recommend! Not only did this website allow me to get into the Cayley Olympiad, but it has a plethora of options for learning and preparing for UKMT. Thank you Kevin for making this amazing haven of learning!

I completed most of the course and got a gold on the maths challenge. This course really helped me achieve this and I am very grateful my mum told me about this. Very nice course!

It's really enjoyable and I was able to score 84 on the 2026 jmc paper getting kangaroo thxs.

I enjoyed the live classes and they really helped me achieve Junior Kangaroo in the 2026 JMC paper thxs.

very helpful for preparation for the JMC

I discovered this website only two weeks before the JMC without doing any prior preparation. I am taking the JMC tomorrow and feel so prepared thanks to the free course. Kevin explains the solutions really well and the layout of the course is perfectly designed to help you. Thanks so much Mathsaurus!!

It is nice, and i do it often

Hints are really well thought out and helped me to get started as sometimes it can be hard to know how to begin

I like all the fun maths challenges and the questions so i am prepered for the 2026 imc

This was very helpful, for each question, the hint helped guide you on the right track without revealing too much of an answer. I think these courses are absolutely wonderful and much much much more helpful then any other website in order to prepare for your UKMT tests.

ITs goOOdIE

In previous practices, i got 50’s and 60’s . But, after spending a month on the FREE course, i got 106 is the JMC 2025! Thank you so much for this course, it really helped me!

brilliant, i got bronze last year and im doing it again, i also liked how kevin explained the answers very well.

it has helped me alot

I liked how simple and instructional it was.

I just wanted to let you know that my son achieved a Bronze medal with a score of 35 in the Cayley Olympiad after taking the Mathsaurus preparation courses. Many thanks for your help.

I just wanted to thank you personally - my son got a gold medal in the PMC bonus round (he’s in year 5 and did no prep of any kind at school- all he had done was your course.) I really think the practice helped prepare him so well, so I’m very grateful for that!

Very good structure in explanations

It was very good and the solutions helped a lot.

This is very helpful and the solution videos have made my understanding more clear.

so good

Fun

Very clear explanation indeed!

I enjoyed the way it was structured as it didn't feel like I full on blow of questions instead it was one question after the other with good explanations and it made me feel reassured and more confident if i were to try the UKMT.

It was great! I learned so much from this course, and the questions really tested my knowledge! Hopefully I do great!

This really helped as it got to to fly past gold and nearly go onto the olympiad only missing it by a small margin. In the kangaroo, I flew past gold again

It was relaxing with many questions and detailed explanations. I liked it!

It was relaxing with a myriad of different questions with detailed explanations.

I quite liked how certain rules like the interior angles in a triangle adding up to 180 were given reasoning and that there were a versatile range of problems available. I thought that the methods to all of the questions were quite clear and can be applied to multiple problems so that was really helpful. The tutorials at the start have theory in them that make even the hardest problems seem solvable.

The questions were interesting and the answers were surprising, even though this is for study purposes, I would also recommend it for people who like to think outside the regular curriculum.

It was good preparation for JMC and the hints helped a lot near the end.

This course was very good as it helped me use different ways of working out the questions that were hard by using much easier steps. This was a great course!

Mathsaurus really helped me getting only 20 in JMC past papers to 106 on the actual day! It was really helpful and I would sincerely recommend it to anyone taking the JMC, even the IMC!

I really enjoyed this course because there was a lot of practise and I was able to learn new solutions to the tricky problems using algebra and simultaneous equations. I was improving a lot. I was able to get more correct and I believe that I would get Gold or higher in the Junior Maths Challenge 2026. Thank you very much.

This has helped with my knowledge in maths so much I am ever grateful

I really improved and was able to use faster and more efficient techniques

I liked how intuitive the course was.

I did the IMC course from Mathsaurus while getting ready for the IMC. It was an INCREDIBLE course and it helped me understand how to tackle different problems. Thanks to the course I was able to qualify for the Pink Kangaroo and I will be going for the Olympiad next year, thanks!

i was stuck after the 21st question but with your explaining i got it

You have used very nice tricks and the examples to make the question simpler is amazing

The course was very clear throughout, the solutions were very well explained and this course helped me practice a lot.

Hello! I didn't even know what the Senior Maths Challenge was up until 2 weeks before I was doing it! I have never done anything similar to this so I thought I was completely going to fail. I am good at maths, but the questions are quite difficult and nothing similar to what I've done before. Your videos got me a 59 this year, just enough for a Silver! Thank you very much.

I have just been using Mathsaurus for 2 years, but in those years, the course has really helped me. From getting a participation in 2023, to a gold in 2024 and a Kangaroo in 2025, this course was very well designed for maths enthusiasts and complete beginners alike. Specifically the courses " Get Ready for the Junior Maths Challenge" and "Get Ready for the Intermediate Maths Challenge " have really helped me on my Maths journey. I am really grateful for the accessible and enjoyable maths courses. - Year 9 student

Kevin is a wonderful teacher and his classes not only support confident mathematicians but are also excellent for those who are able mathematically and alongside stretching maths benefit from building confidence in their own abilities. My son always loves going to Kevin’s classes and was surprised and pleased to get a gold in this year’s IMC and to qualify for Kangaroo too.

Hey Kevin! I just wanted to let you know that after taking your Go for Gold course, I qualified for the Hamilton Olympiad (97 marks) for the first time. Thank you so much, you’ve been truly helpful!

Very helpful for my IMC preparation, thank you!

i loved every thing in it but i loved the in depth explenation the most

it was fun and helped you learn how to do these questions. Thank you!

The explanations were really clear and I really enjoyed doing the logic problems!

gained confidence

This course really helped me improve my JMC strategies and it also impacted the way I think when solving one of these problems. Additionally, the explanations are really clear and helped me to understand my mistakes.

I really appreciate the fact that this resource has been made free, and therefore, accessible to everyone! This course has been a fantastic resource because of it’s thoughtful structure, in which, I can engage with the questions myself, but it also doesn’t feel overwhelming when I get stuck because the teacher has useful hints and clear solutions that have helped me understand maths better as a whole! In fact, I’m revisiting this course for the second time this year to complete it entirely!

Extremely good explanations and it also guaranteed me a gold, I love this type of courses where people explain thoroughly and in detail, explaining every point

The way you explain the solutions is very easy to follow

This course was very good

Really good hints and solutions to the questions that explain them very well.

I love this! It’s so good! Mr Kevin is cool! 5 STARS!

Amazing!! I would definitely recommend this to my friends. This has greatly helped me improve my score!!