Maths Diagnostic Tool

The Maths GCSE Diagnostic Tool is a skills based assessment program. The app successfully highlights your strengths and your areas to develop within the subject. This is a very useful and accurate tool to use prior to any test to help rank which revision topics are of the most importance.

The app is setup in such a way to guide you through a wide range of Mathematical topics. The diagnostic tool assesses generic skill based Mathematical knowledge; it therefore suitably matches the AQA, Edexcel or OCR schemes of learning. There are two tiers available within the app, a higher or as a foundation option, to allow you to target your desired tier of final paper.

INSTRUCTIONS:

After installation, you are presented with a login screen. You will need to create your own account following the on screen instructions. Keep your login details safe as all future results will be stored under your account. This incredibly powerful tool then helps you to start identifying areas you need to revise. By answering each of the online questions, the app highlights the objectives you have successfully completed and which ones you will need to work on. After some targeted revision, you can then return back to the app to see if you have improved. With each access, the questions are refreshed so you can assess yourself with a similar problem but with different numbers.

CONTENTS:

The app covers the following range of topics:

Statistics and Number -

1) Mean, mode, median and range

2) Pictogram and tally tables

3) Bar charts

4) Probability

5) Stem and leaf

6) Two-way tables

7) Scatter diagrams

8) Percentages and ratio

9) Pie charts

10) Frequency polygons

11) Cumulative frequency tables and graphs

12) Box plots

13) Histograms

14) Upper and lower bounds

Number and Algebra -

1) Operating with integers, decimals and directed numbers (negatives)

2) Place value, BIDMAS and rounding

3) Factors, multiples, HCF and LCM

4) Indices and standard index form

5) Surds

6) Ratio and proportion

7) Fractions, decimals and percentages

8) Equations and simultaneous equations

9) Quadratics - factorising and completing the square

10) Sequences - inc. understanding of nth term rules

11) Linear graphs - y = mx + c

12) Real life graphs - speed, distance and time calculations

13) Inequalities - inc. interpretation of graphical inequalitites

14) Substituting into formulae

15) Changing the subject / rearranging a formula

Geometry and Algebra -

1) Properties of shapes - inc. angles on parallel lines, interior and exterior angles

2) Circle theorems

3) Congruence and similarity

4) Area and perimeter

5) Volume and surface area

6) Transformations

7) Vectors

8) Direct and inverse proportion

9) Bearings and measure - inc. approximations and metric/imperial conversions

10) Algebraic manipulation and equations

11) Pythagoras' theorem

12) Trigonometry

13) Trial and improvement

14) Graph transformations

15) Dimensional analysis

16) Ratio and similarity

17) Loci

18) Nets, plans and elevations

19) Real life graphs

TESTING:

1) Random question

2) Mini random 5 question mock test

3) Create your own mock assessment with the full breadth of an assessment tier to aid targeted revision

SUPPORT:

Before rating the app, please let me know of any suggestions you might have on how I might improve the app. Any topics you think I may have missed or you happen to perhaps find some glaring glitches, then please email me first at [email protected]. The app has taken a considerable amount of my personal time to develop so please give it 5 stars to say "thank you".