Maths Entry Level Certificate Level 1

This course is designed to support students with their mathematics development, studying and improving your fundamental number skills (calculations including fractions and decimals) and extending your understanding of maths to geometry, statistics and simple algebra. You will be able to take this course alongside a Level 1 vocational course at college.

This course will help you gain skills and confidence in mathematics. It will help you to prepare for GCSE Maths in the following year, further study, or future employment. The content is primarily number skills, as well as some topics that are taught to help you prepare for GCSE Maths.

A controlled assessment within the classroom, based around a variety of number skills. There are three different levels you can achieve, from Entry Level 1 to Entry Level 3. After the assessments are completed, students will begin to prepare for GCSE study in the following year.

Students study Entry Level maths alongside a Level 1 programme. No previous maths qualifications are needed.

After completing the Entry Level Certificate in mathematics, students usually progress onto studying the full GCSE in Mathematics in the following academic year.