Geometry marks come from naming the property you used and giving the reason. A correct angle with no reason often scores nothing.
Geometrical Terms
Geometry questions are written in a vocabulary, and the marks are lost by students who know the shape but not the word. This topic gives you the exact names: the angle ty...
7 questions · 15 marks
Revise this topicConstructions and Scale Drawings
Cambridge gives you three instruments for this topic - a ruler, a protractor and a pair of compasses - and marks you on how accurately you use them. You construct a trian...
7 questions · 17 marks
Revise this topicSimilarity
Two shapes are similar when one is an enlargement of the other, so the angles match and every length is multiplied by the same scale factor. Find that factor and a missin...
7 questions · 20 marks
Revise this topicSymmetry
Symmetry questions look easy and then cost marks on the last line, because a shape usually has more lines of symmetry than you first spot. This topic covers line symmetry...
6 questions · 13 marks
Revise this topicAngles
Every angle question in 0580 is marked on two things: the size of the angle and the reason you give for it. This topic collects the angle facts you need - at a point, on ...
7 questions · 17 marks
Revise this topicCircle Theorems
Cambridge lists the circle properties you have to use, and expects a reason written next to every angle: the angle in a semicircle, the angle at the centre, angles in the...
8 questions · 20 marks
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