The Sparx Maths Curriculum provides a comprehensive five-year programme for Years 7-11, combining mastery and spiral approaches to deliver an intelligently sequenced learning journey. See our Sparx Maths Curriculum website to learn more.
Using the Assessments & Revision page
If your school uses the Sparx Maths Curriculum, you can use the supporting revision tasks, assessment papers and reporting, fluency follow up tasks and problem solving insights to supercharge your use of the Curriculum.
Please note that the Assessments & Revision features aren't available for any curricula other than the Sparx Math Curriculum.
Revision tasks
Revision tasks
Each Sparx Maths Curriculum assessment (except the Y7 Baseline Assessment) has a corresponding revision task, which can be switched on for each class before they sit the assessment.
The task consists of a series of questions on each of the topics included in the assessment. Students complete these questions online, in Sparx Maths.
Setting revision tasks
Setting revision tasks
You need to set a revision task (turn it on) for a class for students to be able to complete it.
From the 'Curriculum' page, under 'Assessments & Revision', click 'View Assessments'
Choose the year group and assessment that you want to set a revision task for, then click on its 'Assessment Overview' button
Choose the class that you want to set a revision task for, from the class selector at the top of your site
Click on the 'Revision' tab
Click on 'Turn on Revision task for [class name]'
The revision task is now turned on, and visible to students when they log in to Sparx Maths
Monitoring revision task completion
Monitoring revision task completion
Once you've set a revision task for a class, you can monitor students' progress through the task, including whether they've started or not; their completion percentage overall and for each topic; how long they've spent on the task; and how many questions they've answered for each topic.
From the 'Curriculum' page, under 'Assessments & Revision', click 'View Assessments'
Choose the year group and assessment that you want to monitor a revision task for, then click on its 'Assessment Overview' button
Choose the class that you want to monitor a revision task for, from the class selector at the top of your site
Click on the 'Revision' tab
Refer to the completion table to view students' progress
Ending revision tasks
Ending revision tasks
You can turn an existing revision task off when you no longer want students to be able to complete it.
When you do this, students will no longer see the revision task when they log in to Sparx Maths, but you'll still be able to see monitoring data and insights for the task.
From the 'Curriculum' page, under 'Assessments & Revision', click 'View Assessments'
Choose the year group and assessment whose revision task you want to end, then click on its 'Assessment Overview' button
Choose the class whose revision task you want to end, from the class selector at the top of your site
Click on the 'Revision' tab
Toggle the 'Revision task' slider to 'Off'
The revision task is now turned off and students will no longer see it when they log in to Sparx Maths
Viewing revision insights
Viewing revision insights
Once students have started completing a revision task, we'll generate insights to help you to identify skills that students may be struggling with. We also provide a presentation view to make it easier to display the skills on your whiteboard, to work through with the class.
From the 'Curriculum' page, under 'Assessments & Revision', click 'View Assessments'
Choose the year group and assessment that you want to view revision task insights for, then click on its 'Assessment Overview' button
Choose the class that you want to view revision task insights for, from the class selector at the top of your site
Click on the 'Revision' tab
Click on the 'Revision insights' tab
If you want to present the insights to the class, click on 'Presentation view'
What do revision tasks look like for students?
What do revision tasks look like for students?
After you've set a revision task for a class, the next time a student in that class logs in to Sparx Maths, they'll be asked to choose between 'My Homework' or 'Revision & Assessment'
When the student clicks on 'Revision & Assessment', they'll see all revision tasks available to them
They can see their progress for each revision task, and click 'Do some revision' against any task that they want to work on
The first time a student completes a revision task, they'll need to watch a video explaining how revision tasks work
The student completes questions in a similar way to their Sparx Maths homework, with a couple of differences:
The student can skip between questions using the left hand bar
Students don't receive bookwork checks whilst completing revision tasks
If the student wants to switch between their revision task and their homework, they can click on the Sparx Maths logo at the top of the screen
Assessments
Assessments
We provide termly assessment papers and mark schemes for each year group that's using the Sparx Maths Curriculum. When used in conjunction with the assessment reporting and insights features in Sparx Maths, our assessments can be used to gauge students' understanding of the Curriculum, and to help you to identify opportunities for further teaching and revision.
Downloading assessment papers and mark schemes
Downloading assessment papers and mark schemes
Go to the Sparx Maths Curriculum website
Select your school if it's not already selected
To log in, enter the same username and password that you use to log in to Sparx Maths
Click on 'View the curriculum'
Choose the year group that you want to download papers for
Under the term that you want to download papers for, scroll across to and click on 'Resources' under 'Assessment & Revision'
Entering assessment marks
Entering assessment marks
Once students have completed their assessments and you've marked them against the provided mark scheme, you can enter the results into Sparx Maths.
Doing so makes your school eligible to participate in and receive national comparison reports, and unlocks assessment reporting and insights.
From the 'Curriculum' page, under 'Assessments & Revision', click 'View Assessments'
Choose the year group and assessment that you want to enter assessment marks for, then click on its 'Assessment Overview' button
Choose the class that you want to enter assessment marks for, from the class selector at the top of your site
Click on the 'Assessment' tab
Click on the 'Enter/edit mark data' tab
Click on the first student in the list
You can now enter marks for each question, for the selected student
You can use the arrow keys on your keyboard to quickly move between questions
If the student was absent for the assessment, you can tick the 'Student absent for assessment' checkbox
Note that it's not currently possible to import assessment marks (e.g. via CSV or Excel). They have to be entered in to Sparx Maths.
Viewing assessment reports
Viewing assessment reports
The reports tab gives a question-by-question and unit breakdown of average marks for Class, Year or individual student. At the top of the page, there are also options to download a printable report of assessment results that can be given to students, as well as downloading a CSV of assessment score information.
Viewing assessment insights
Viewing assessment insights
This page highlights the problem solving questions that your class struggled with the most. It provides how many students got the question wrong on the assessment, as well as the actual question from the paper, and shadow questions from Sparx Maths to run through with your class.
Setting follow up tasks
Setting follow up tasks
Once the assessment data has been entered, you can generate a Fluency Fix Up task for your class. This gives students the opportunity to work on any fluency questions from the assessment where they missed out on marks. You can also track student progress through the task on this page.
Baseline assessment
Using the unique content from Sparx Maths, we've designed a formative baseline package, to help you understand what your Year 7 students know and don't know about key topics from Key Stage 2.
You can download this year's baseline assessment package from our Sparx Curriculum website.
Archive of baseline assessment packages
Archive of baseline assessment packages
Note: to be included in the National Report and to use the in-product QLA and fix-up functionality, the latest version of the assessment should be used.
National Comparison Reports
Enter your school's data before the deadline to receive a report including:
How the distribution of marks for the school compared to the national distribution.
How the school performed on each unit of the curriculum compared with the national performance.
How the school performed on each question compared with national performance.
Previous reports
Previous reports
2024 Autumn
2024 Autumn
Further resources
GCSE Revision Lists
GCSE Revision Lists
Revision skills list for Higher, Foundation and Crossover can be found on our Sparx Curriculum in the grey revision blocks in the Y11 Summer Term.
Log in to the Sparx Curriculum website
Click on 'View the Curriculum'
Click on 'Year 11 Higher' or 'Year 11 Foundation'
Scroll down to the grey 'Revision' block at the bottom in the Summer Term
Click here for the resources pop up
Crossover Workbooks
Crossover Workbooks
Using GCSE content from Sparx Maths, we have created a series of six crossover workbooks. Each workbook focuses on a particular Strand of maths and contains questions from key crossover topics that appear in both the GCSE Foundation and Higher tier papers.
Log in to the Sparx Curriculum website
Click on 'View the Curriculum'
Scroll down to the grey 'Revision' block at the bottom in the Summer Term
Click here for the resources pop up
Transition Booklets
Transition Booklets
Year 6 - 7 Transition Booklet
Contains over 130 questions from within Sparx Maths
Supports the continuation of Year 6 learning from the end of SATs to the start of Year 7
Is based on the Year 6 DFE/NCETM 'ready to progress' guidance from June 2020; Maths Guidance Year 6 - DFE
GCSE to A-Level Transition Booklet
Supports the continuation of GCSE to A-Level
Uses over 120 questions taken from within Sparx Maths, over 11 key topics
Extra independent work available for Sparx Maths users
Both booklets can be downloaded from our Sparx Curriculum Website
Log in to the Sparx Curriculum website
Click on 'Transition Booklets on the top menu
Frequently asked questions
Can I meet with someone to discuss the Sparx Curriculum?
Can I meet with someone to discuss the Sparx Curriculum?
Yes, you can book a Curriculum Chat with one of our Lead Advisors on the Sparx Curriculum website. Log in, and click on 'find out more' on the blue info bar at the top of the site.
Can I upload a QLA/assessment marks into Sparx?
Can I upload a QLA/assessment marks into Sparx?
Currently it isn't possible to upload the data from the excel QLA spreadsheet into the online Sparx marksheet.
We understand that having to re-enter data is not an ideal solution and we are sorry for the impact that this may have. If you'd like to leave feedback about wanting the option to upload a spreadsheet, it would be helpful if you could upvote the existing request in our Feedback and Suggestions board here: Upload QLA data to Sparx from excel/sheets.