Pearson's own FINAL Summer 2027 timetable for 9MA0, and whether the large data set changes before then.
Book a Free ConsultationYear 13 Edexcel A-Level Maths is the final year of Pearson's Level 3 Advanced GCE in Mathematics, specification code 9MA0, first taught from September 2017. Two things are already fixed for a Year 13 cohort: Pearson's large data set for 9MA0, unchanged since the course began, and the three paper dates for the Summer 2027 series -- 26 May, 9 June and 16 June -- confirmed on Pearson's own FINAL examination timetable.
Studying Year 13 Edexcel A-Level Maths?
Our expert Edexcel A-level maths tutors help students across the UK work through 9MA0's Pure, Statistics and Mechanics content in the run-up to the Summer 2027 papers, built around each student's own school and target grade.
Rated 4.8/5 on Trustpilot from 58 reviews, and 91% of our students achieve their desired grades.
Book a Free Consultation Message us on WhatsAppBy Year 13, the AS decision -- if a school made one -- is already behind the cohort. AS Mathematics is not half of the A-level; it is Pearson's own separate qualification, specification code 8MA0, first taught from September 2017 with first certification from 2018. The full A-level, 9MA0, was also first taught from September 2017, with first assessment in 2018 -- the same starting point, different structures from there.
The structural difference is visible in the paper count alone. AS Mathematics 8MA0 is assessed across two papers -- Paper 1, Pure Mathematics (8MA0/01), and Paper 2, Statistics and Mechanics (8MA0/02) -- while the full A-level 9MA0 that a Year 13 student is working towards is assessed across three: 9MA0/01 and 9MA0/02, both Pure Mathematics, and 9MA0/03, Statistics & Mechanics. A Year 13 student is not sitting "the AS papers plus one more"; 9MA0 is set, marked and certificated as its own three-paper qualification, independent of whatever a school's AS cohort sat the year before.
Because AS Mathematics and A-level Mathematics are certificated separately, a Year 12 AS result -- at schools that entered for it -- does not average into, and does not predict, the eventual 9MA0 grade the same cohort receives at the end of Year 13. The two qualifications sit on different mark scales entirely: two papers for 8MA0, three for 9MA0. A Year 13 student who found AS Mathematics difficult in Year 12 is not carrying that result forward into a final grade; 9MA0 is graded purely on what is achieved across its own three papers, sat at the end of Year 13.
For students who are choosing between the two ahead of Year 12, rather than already committed, our A-Level Maths guide covers how the syllabus itself compares across exam boards; this page is only about what is already settled once a student reaches Year 13 on Edexcel's 9MA0.
Pearson's own specification answers this directly for 9MA0. The large data set used in Edexcel's A-level Mathematics assessment is reviewed on an annual basis, but Pearson's 9MA0 specification commits to notifying centres of any change "before the beginning of the two-year course" a cohort sits -- never mid-course. For a student already in Year 13 on 9MA0, that rule means the version of the large data set they met at the start of Year 12 is the version they will meet in the exam hall.
Pearson describes the same commitment in plainer terms on its own Edexcel A-level Mathematics marketing pages: "with one consistent large data set used throughout the lifetime of the qualification, there's no need to get to grips with a new one each year." That is Pearson's own description of how it runs 9MA0, not a formal rule in the way the specification wording is -- but it points the same way. Neither of Edexcel's two Mathematics documents describes the 9MA0 large data set as something that moves between a cohort's Year 12 and Year 13, or between one Edexcel cohort and the next, once teaching has started.
What the large data set actually contains, and why it is not printed inside the exam paper itself, is covered on our A-Level Maths guide; this page is only about whether Edexcel's version of it moves once a 9MA0 cohort is partway through.
Pearson's Summer 2027 GCE Examination Timetable, labelled FINAL on both its title page and its running header, sets all three 9MA0 papers on a Wednesday afternoon: Paper 1, Pure Mathematics 1 (9MA0/01), on 26 May 2027; Paper 2, Pure Mathematics 2 (9MA0/02), on 9 June 2027; and Paper 3, Statistics & Mechanics (9MA0/03), on 16 June 2027. Each paper runs two hours.
| Paper | Code | Focus | Date | Session | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper 1 | 9MA0/01 | Pure Mathematics 1 | Wed 26 May 2027 | Afternoon | 2h 00m |
| Paper 2 | 9MA0/02 | Pure Mathematics 2 | Wed 9 June 2027 | Afternoon | 2h 00m |
| Paper 3 | 9MA0/03 | Statistics & Mechanics | Wed 16 June 2027 | Afternoon | 2h 00m |
Source: Pearson Edexcel Summer 2027 GCE Examination Timetable (FINAL).
Counting from the first paper to the last: 26 May to 16 June 2027 is a 21-day span -- five days to the end of May, then sixteen more into June. That is the entire window in which a Year 13 Edexcel Maths student sits every paper that decides their final grade, and because Pearson labels this the FINAL timetable rather than a provisional one, the three dates above are not subject to further revision before the series. Families planning a revision schedule, or booking time away, can treat 26 May to 16 June 2027 as fixed.
All three dates sit inside the same four-week block of the summer term, so a school timetabling study leave or half-term-style revision sessions around Year 13 Maths has a single fixed window to plan against, rather than papers scattered across May, June and July the way some subjects run. For 9MA0 specifically, everything that could still move a revision plan -- the specification, the large data set, and now the dates themselves -- is already settled well before the first paper. Families wanting a Year 13 revision plan mapped against these exact dates can book a free consultation ahead of half-term.
My son was low in confidence after COVID and the gaps in learning were building up. Using this service helped plug those gaps, rebuild confidence, and improve his ability to learn properly again.
We arranged maths and English tuition ahead of GCSEs and both tutors were brilliant. My daughter's grades improved, and by results day she achieved two grades higher than in her mock exams.
I attended an English bootcamp with Leading Tuition and the experience was excellent. The teacher gave focused attention to the small group while keeping the lessons interactive and engaging.
Two things covered above are already fixed for a Year 13 9MA0 cohort and will not move again: which board and specification the school entered -- a decision made before Year 12 began -- and Pearson's large data set for 9MA0, unchanged since the course started. What is still open is how the remaining time before the fixed 26 May to 16 June 2027 window gets used.
The paper order itself gives that time some natural shape. 9MA0/01 and 9MA0/02, both Pure Mathematics, come first, on 26 May and 9 June 2027; 9MA0/03, Statistics & Mechanics, comes last, on 16 June 2027, three weeks after the first paper. A student whose Pure content is stronger than their Statistics and Mechanics has, in effect, three extra weeks after the Pure papers in which Statistics & Mechanics is the only 9MA0 assessment still ahead of them -- time that a fixed, unmoving specification and large data set do not otherwise offer any student on this course.
The specification and exam board choice is not unique to Mathematics either: whichever A-level subject a Year 13 student is finishing, which board and specification their school entered them for was decided before Year 12 began, in the same way it was for 9MA0. What varies subject to subject, and board to board, is exactly what stays fixed once teaching starts -- that is a question for each subject's own board, not a general rule, which is why this page only makes the claim for Edexcel's 9MA0. For families managing several Year 13 subjects at once rather than Maths alone, our A-Level tutoring overview covers how we structure support across a full Year 13 timetable, not just one subject.
Which calculator is permitted, and which formulae Pearson supplies rather than requires a student to memorise, for 9MA0 are set out in full on our A-Level Maths guide -- worth reconfirming at this stage of Year 13, not relearning from scratch. If you want a Year 13 programme built around the fixed 26 May to 16 June 2027 window and your child's own gaps, book a free consultation.
Year 13 students working towards the full A-level sit Pearson Edexcel's 9MA0 specification, the Level 3 Advanced GCE in Mathematics, first taught from September 2017 with first assessment in 2018. It is assessed across three papers: 9MA0/01 and 9MA0/02, both Pure Mathematics, and 9MA0/03, Statistics & Mechanics. This is a different qualification from AS Mathematics, specification code 8MA0, which is assessed across two papers and certificated separately.
No. AS Mathematics 8MA0 and A-level Mathematics 9MA0 are Pearson's own separate qualifications, both first taught from September 2017, each with its own paper structure and its own certification. AS 8MA0 is assessed across two papers, Pure Mathematics (8MA0/01) and Statistics and Mechanics (8MA0/02); the full A-level 9MA0 that a Year 13 student sits is assessed across three papers, 9MA0/01, 9MA0/02 and 9MA0/03. A Year 13 student's 9MA0 result does not build on an AS grade.
No. Pearson's 9MA0 specification states that any change to the large data set is notified to centres 'before the beginning of the two-year course', never partway through it. A student already in Year 13 on 9MA0 is working with the same version of the large data set they were given at the start of Year 12. Pearson separately describes 9MA0 as using 'one consistent large data set used throughout the lifetime of the qualification'.
Pearson's Summer 2027 Examination Timetable, marked FINAL, sets all three 9MA0 papers on a Wednesday afternoon: 9MA0/01 on 26 May 2027, 9MA0/02 on 9 June 2027, and 9MA0/03 on 16 June 2027. Each paper lasts two hours, and every one of the three sits in the afternoon session, so no 9MA0 paper falls on a morning slot for this series. The gap from the first paper to the last is 21 days, placing the whole 9MA0 assessment window inside four consecutive weeks of the summer term.
9MA0/03, Statistics & Mechanics, is the final paper, sat on 16 June 2027, three weeks after 9MA0/01 on 26 May 2027. The two Pure Mathematics papers, 9MA0/01 and 9MA0/02, come first, on 26 May and 9 June 2027 respectively. Because Statistics & Mechanics is examined separately and last, a Year 13 student with a specific weakness in that content has the longest run-in to it of any of the three 9MA0 papers.
Pearson's own Summer 2027 GCE Examination Timetable is labelled FINAL on its title page and again in the running header of every page, not provisional. That label is Pearson's own description of the document's status, not an inference from its filename. The three 9MA0 dates it sets -- 26 May, 9 June and 16 June 2027 -- are the dates a Year 13 student should plan around.
No. Which awarding body and specification a school enters students for is decided before Year 12 begins and is not revisited once a cohort reaches Year 13. For a student on Edexcel's 9MA0, that means the specification, the paper structure and the large data set are all already fixed; what remains open is how the time before the 26 May to 16 June 2027 papers is used.
No. AS Mathematics 8MA0 and A-level Mathematics 9MA0 are certificated as separate qualifications, so a Year 12 AS entry does not need to be carried through to Year 13 for the A-level result to stand alone. A student who sat AS Mathematics in Year 12 receives an 8MA0 grade on its own certificate, entirely separate from whatever grade they later achieve in 9MA0 at the end of Year 13. Continuing to the full A-level does not require having sat the AS, and having sat the AS does not change how 9MA0 is marked.
Our expert Edexcel A-level maths tutors work through the 9MA0 papers in the run-up to the fixed 26 May to 16 June 2027 window, built around your child's own school and target grade.
Rated Excellent on Trustpilot, 4.8/5. See our Maths tutoring service or the A-Level Maths guide.