Comparison
Quanta vs Physics & Maths Tutor
Physics & Maths Tutor gives you the paper. Quanta sits it with you. PMT is a big free library of past-paper PDFs and mark schemes, including Cambridge 9709 and 0580: you download, print, and mark yourself. On Quanta you sit the real Cambridge paper in the browser, it is marked against the official scheme, and every lost mark is tracked to the skill that cost it.
If you already have the papers, what you are missing is the marking and the pattern — and that is exactly what Quanta adds.
Updated 1 October 2026
At a glance
| Quanta | Physics & Maths Tutor | |
|---|---|---|
| Format | Sit the paper online, question by question. | Download the paper and mark scheme as PDFs. |
| Marking | Against the paper's official mark scheme, as you go. | You mark yourself from the mark-scheme PDF. |
| Tracking | Every lost mark tied to a syllabus skill, across every paper. | None — the files do not know who you are. |
| Price | Free, no ads. | Free, ad-supported. |
| Cambridge subjects | IGCSE Maths 0580, A Level Maths 9709, A Level Economics 9708, A Level Business 9609 and AS Chemistry 9701 — 196 papers mapped to their schemes. | PDFs across many subjects, built mainly around the UK boards. |
Ten papers in, what do you know?
Working from PDFs, you finish ten papers with ten scores in a notebook. You know your average. You probably do not know that the reason mark on circle theorems has gone in seven of them, or that your method marks vanish whenever a question starts with “show that”.
Quanta keeps that record for you. Each paper is mapped to its mark scheme, so a missed mark is attached to a named skill and carried across every paper you sit. The pattern surfaces on its own — and Quark sends you to the skill that is costing the most.
Self-marking from a PDF also has a quieter problem: you are generous to yourself. A mark scheme says exactly what earns the mark; Quanta holds you to it.
What practising on Quanta gets you
- The real Cambridge paper, not a lookalike. 196 past papers across IGCSE Maths 0580, A Level Maths 9709, A Level Economics 9708, A Level Business 9609 and AS Chemistry 9701, sat in the browser — the actual questions, command words and mark allocations you will meet in the exam.
- Marked against that paper’s official mark scheme. Maths part by part, method marks included; Business objective by objective, the way Cambridge grids it; Economics and Chemistry multiple choice with every answer explained.
- Every lost mark tied to a skill, across every paper. Not “68%” but which skill keeps costing you — and Quark points you at it next.
- What the paper needed for each grade. Paper pages show that paper’s own grade boundaries for every series Cambridge has published, and a calculator works out what you need on the papers you have left.
- Free, with nothing behind a paywall. Marking, tracking and the AI tutor are included. No ads.
- Your teacher can join you. Classes, set papers and a per-skill view of the whole class — and a student can invite their teacher in.
When you would need something else
Quanta is Cambridge International only, covering IGCSE Maths 0580, A Level Maths 9709, A Level Economics 9708, A Level Business 9609 and AS Chemistry 9701. For Edexcel, AQA or OCR, or for printing a paper to sit on your desk, a PDF library is the tool for that job.
Common questions
Is Quanta better than Physics & Maths Tutor for Cambridge?
For practising, yes. PMT gives you the paper; Quanta marks it against the official scheme and tracks which skill lost each mark, free and without ads.
Does Physics & Maths Tutor have Cambridge papers?
Yes — it hosts Cambridge maths past papers and mark schemes as PDFs. To sit them online and have them marked, use Quanta’s 9709 papers or 0580 papers.
Is Quanta free like PMT?
Yes, and without ads. Marking, tracking and the tutor are all included.
Details about other sites were checked on 1 October 2026 (sources: PMT 9709 Paper 1, PMT 0580 Paper 2). Features and prices change — check their site before relying on them.
Practise real Cambridge past papers against real mark schemes
Quanta has real Cambridge A Level Maths 9709 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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