O Level · SYLLABUS 4052
O Level E Math past papers, marked the way the exam marks it.
THE SYLLABUS
What the 4052 syllabus examines
The 2026 O Level E Math syllabus (4052) has 18 topics. This is the syllabus's own list, in its own order.
- Numbers and their operations
- Ratio and proportion
- Percentage
- Rate and speed
- Algebraic expressions and formulae
- Functions and graphs
- Equations and inequalities
- Set language and notation
- Matrices
- Angles, triangles and polygons
- Congruence and similarity
- Properties of circles
- Pythagoras’ theorem and trigonometry
- Mensuration
- Coordinate geometry
- Vectors in two dimensions
- Data handling and analysis
- Probability
How it is examined. Every candidate sits 2 papers in the 2026 examination.
- Paper 1 · Written2 h 15 min · 90 marks · 50% of the final grade. About 26 short answer questions.
- Paper 2 · Written2 h 15 min · 90 marks · 50% of the final grade. 9 to 10 questions, the last one set in a real-world context.
These facts are from the syllabus documents SEAB publishes for the 2026 examination. Check there for the year you sit the paper.
THE BANK
Every chapter, with real papers behind it
FullMarks holds 801 O Level E Math questions, 801 of them carrying a full marking scheme, so a written answer can be marked against the same points an examiner would use. The chapters with the most practice behind them:
- Algebraic Expressions and Formulae
- Mensuration
- Data Handling and Analysis
- Ratio and Proportion
- Geometry and Properties of Circles
- Trigonometric Functions and Identities
- Numbers and Operations
- Coordinate Geometry
- Quadratic Functions
- Probability
- Functions and Graphs (E)
- Vectors
- Differentiation and Integration
- Surds and Indices
- Matrices
- Set Language and Notation
- Sequences and Series
- Equations and Inequalities
HOW MARKING WORKS
Where the marks actually go
Mathematics is marked in method marks and accuracy marks. Method marks survive an arithmetic slip: if the approach is right, the working shows it, and a wrong number is then carried forward correctly, those marks still stand. Working that exists only in a calculator cannot be awarded at all, which is why a correct final answer with no working can score less than a wrong one with full working.
Handwriting-quality English is not what is being marked. An answer written in short, ungrammatical fragments can score full marks if every required statement is present. But naming the keywords is not enough either. Where the scheme asks you to connect two ideas, listing both without joining them earns nothing for that point. Padding an answer with extra terms in the hope that one of them lands does not work, and can cost you marks a shorter answer would have won.
WHAT YOU GET
Write it as you would in the paper
You practise real O Level mathematics questions and answer them the way you will on the day. Type them, photograph your handwritten working, or draw straight onto the screen. It comes back marked immediately, point by point. Where you lose a mark you are told exactly what was missing, rather than being shown a model answer and left to spot the difference yourself. If an explanation does not land, you can ask for the same thing again in plain words.
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