Comparison
Quanta vs Physics & Maths Tutor
Short answer: Physics & Maths Tutor is a large, free library of past-paper PDFs and topic question sets, built mainly around the UK exam boards. Quanta is built for Cambridge International, and rather than handing you a PDF it marks your work against the official scheme and tracks which skill lost you the mark.
The practical difference: PMT gives you the paper. Quanta sits it with you.
Updated 20 August 2026
At a glance
| Quanta | Physics & Maths Tutor | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free for students. | Free, ad-supported. |
| Exam boards | Cambridge International only — 0580 and 9709. | Strongest on Edexcel, AQA and OCR; limited Cambridge coverage. |
| Format | Answer in the browser; marked as you go, or self-marked against the criteria. | Downloadable PDFs of papers, mark schemes and topic question sets. |
| Marking | Against the published mark scheme, criterion by criterion. | You mark your own from the mark-scheme PDF. |
| What it tracks | Per-skill mastery across every paper you sit. | Nothing — the files do not know who you are. |
Where the difference shows
Working from PDFs, marking yourself against a mark scheme, is a perfectly good way to revise — it is what students did before either site existed. The weakness is that nothing accumulates. Ten papers in, you have ten scores in a notebook and no picture of what keeps going wrong.
Quanta’s papers are mapped to their mark schemes, so a missed mark is attached to a named skill and carried across every paper. The pattern surfaces on its own: not “68%” but you keep losing the reason mark on circle theorems.
Where PMT is the better choice
- You sit Edexcel, AQA or OCR. PMT is built for those boards. Quanta has nothing for them.
- You want to print and work on paper. PMT’s PDFs are made for that. Quanta has an on-paper mode, but the paper itself comes from Cambridge.
- You need breadth beyond maths. PMT spans many subjects; Quanta is maths, Economics and Business.
Common questions
Does Physics & Maths Tutor cover Cambridge (CIE)?
Only partly. Its depth is in the UK boards. For 0580 and 9709 specifically you will find far more on Quanta’s IGCSE past papers and A Level past papers.
Is Quanta free like PMT?
Yes, and without ads. PMT is free and ad-supported; Quanta is free with no ads and no third-party analytics.
Practise Cambridge maths against real mark schemes
Quanta has real Cambridge IGCSE Maths 0580 past-paper questions, broken into skill checkpoints, marked criterion by criterion the way examiners mark — and it tracks which skills you’re missing. Free for individual students.
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