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STEP Support Programme

Which STEP Questions are in the Assignments

I'm trying to keep track of which STEP questions I have and haven't done. As such, I'd really like to write down which ones are in the assignments, but I don't know of any way to do so other than to look them up paper by paper. Does anyone know which ones were used, or if there's an easier way? Thanks!

Not sure if me posting this is helpful or will lead to loads of people looking up solutions to questions (to their own detriment), but anyway, I'm sure you'll be responsible with it. Dr Siklos set up a step problem database that works incredibly well. It's located at the convenient titled http://stepdatabase.maths.org/database/index.html# and you just need to type in the first few words of whatever problem you're doing and it should find it for you.

At anybody else seeing this, please - don't look up solutions to questions you haven't scratched your head at for days on end and asked for hints on here first, it'll just ruin the question for you. That said, if you use it responsibly, it's a good tool.

Wow, that's really helpful! I've only found questions from 2000 onward before, so this also allows me to get access to many more questions, in addition to keeping track of the ones I've done. Thanks a lot!

Glad you find it helpful!

Useful Links

Underground Mathematics: Selected worked STEP questions

STEP Question database

University of Cambridge Mathematics Faculty: What do we look for?

University of Cambridge Mathematics Faculty: Information about STEP

University of Cambridge Admissions Office: Undergraduate course information for Mathematics

Stephen Siklos' "Advanced Problems in Mathematics" book (external link)

MEI: Worked solutions to STEP questions (external link)

OCR: Exam board information about STEP (external link)

AMSP (Advanced Maths Support programme): Support for University Admission Tests (external link)