Revision checklist

Tick each when your child can do it without hesitating. Anything unticked two weeks before the exam is where the remaining time goes.

Number

• Place value to millions, including numbers with zeros in the middle
• Rounding to 10/100/1,000/10,000, including the carry cases (148,509 → 149,000)
• Times tables to 12 × 12 — instantly, not counted
• Long multiplication and division
• Primes under 100 + the five fake primes
• Squares to 15², cubes to 10³
• Factors, multiples, HCF, LCM
• Divisibility tests (especially 3, 4, 9)
• Negative numbers on a number line, including subtracting a negative
• BODMAS order of operations

Fractions, decimals, percentages

• The equivalence table (section 3) both directions
• Add/subtract fractions with different denominators
• Multiply and divide fractions
• Fraction of an amount; percentage of an amount via 10%
• Percentage change and reverse percentage (£24.50 after 30% off → £35)
• Simplifying to lowest terms

Ratio and proportion

• Share in a ratio (parts → one part → answer)
• Given one side, find the other
• Recipe scaling (unitary method) and best-buy
• Inverse proportion (workers/time)

Algebra

• Collecting like terms
• Solving one-step, two-step and bracket equations
• Substitution
• Function machines forwards and backwards
• nth term, with the verify-on-term-2 habit
• Sequences: constant difference, changing difference, ×, ×then+, Fibonacci

Shape and space

• Angles: straight line 180°, point 360°, triangle 180°, quadrilateral 360°
• Vertically opposite angles equal
• Interior/exterior angles of regular polygons
• Area & perimeter of rectangle, triangle, parallelogram, trapezium
• Compound (L-shape) area and perimeter — including deducing missing sides
• 3D solids: faces, edges, vertices + Euler check
• Volume of cube/cuboid; surface area; working backwards from them
• Coordinates in four quadrants; reflection and translation
• Lines of symmetry; rotational symmetry order
• Bearings: three digits, from North, clockwise; back bearings

Measurement and time

• All the unit conversions (section 4), including the m²/cm² trap
• 12-hour ↔ 24-hour, including midnight and noon
• Adding/subtracting time by bridging
• Timetables
• Speed = distance ÷ time, with fractional hours
• Average speed = total distance ÷ total time
• Roman numerals to 2026

Data and probability

• Mean, median, mode, range
• Reverse mean (totals thinking)
• Bar charts, line graphs, pictograms (read the key!), frequency tables
• Pie chart angles both directions
• Probability as a fraction; "not" questions
• Two events: multiply; two dice: ordered pairs
• Venn diagrams: Total = A + B − Both

Verbal reasoning

• The 411-word vocabulary list
• Letter codes (write the alphabet out first)
• Letter arithmetic
• Number sequences: test the five rule families in order
• Analogies: name the relationship before looking at options
• Odd one out: find what the four share
• Logic puzzles: draw the picture in the margin

Exam technique

• Two-pass method (dot the hard ones, come back)
• Never leave a blank
• Eliminate before choosing
• Check question number against answer-sheet row every 5 questions
• Re-read the instruction line at every new block