National 5
Qualifications Scotland (SQA) National 5 Maths
One year, sat in S4, graded A to D with No Award below. Most courses carry an assignment alongside the question papers, with its own deadline set by the school.
What it covers
- numerical-skillsNumerical skills
6 entries in the specification
- algebraic-skillsAlgebraic skills
15 entries in the specification
- geometric-skillsGeometric skills
10 entries in the specification
- trigonometric-skillsTrigonometric skills
5 entries in the specification
- statistical-skillsStatistical skills
2 entries in the specification
- reasoning-skillsReasoning skills
2 entries in the specification
How Fincho uses this
Fincho tracks the same areas the awarding body uses, so a mistake in a test is filed against the part of the specification it belongs to rather than against a subject. Practice is generated for the area that keeps going wrong, in the style and command words of this specification, and marked against its mark scheme.
These pages summarise what a course specification covers and link to Qualifications Scotland's own document. They are not the specification, and the school decides which level is sat and when.
Working to a deadline? The exam dates for 2027.
The specification itself
The area names are the awarding body's own. What each one contains is in the specification above, and that is the document that counts.