A full 40-question mock, Paper 1 and Paper 2, built to sit above every real TMUA paper ever released.
The numbers. Mock 7 averages 6.6 on our 1 to 9 difficulty scale, with 18 of its 40 questions at band 7 or above and a genuine 8.0 ceiling. For comparison, a typical real paper averages 5.9 with about 17% of questions at band 7, the hardest real paper (2021) averages 6.2, and our own Mock 6 averages 6.4. Sit Mock 7 when you want to find out what breaks, not to feel good.
We wrote the rules down before writing the questions. The difficulty targets, the format mix and the answer-key spread were all pre-registered first, specifically so a weak question could not be argued through afterwards. Every one of the 40 answers was then re-derived from scratch, independently of whoever wrote it.
Then we tried to break it. All 40 questions went to blind reviewers who saw the question and the options and nothing else: no answer, no difficulty, no clue which were ours. Mixed in with them were 56 real past-paper questions, so a reviewer had no way to tell our work from the official material, and we could measure how hard each reviewer marks before believing anything they said about ours.
Five questions came down as a result, and none went up. Four of them because a reviewer found a shortcut we had missed: one can be settled by testing a single value, one by recalling a standard constant, one because a specific small case exposes the whole thing in about twenty seconds. A question you can crack in under a minute is not a band-7 question, whatever the intended method was, so those are now rated for the shortcut rather than the intention.
Two other things we fixed while we were in there.
- A question appeared in both Mock 4 and Mock 5 with the same numbers and the same answer. If you sat both, the second one was a free mark that also flattered your predicted band. Mock 5's copy has been replaced.
- Four worked solutions in Mock 3 told you that the right answer was a mistake, because the explanation named the wrong option letter. If you got one of those right and then read the solution, it said you were wrong. That is fixed.
Mock 7 is included with Premium alongside every other CrackTMUA mock and every official past paper.