STEP, decoded for you.
know what actually comes upWe read every STEP paper since 2006 so you don’t have to. Every question carries the tailor’s marks: the method that cracks it, the chapter it lives in, and the other sittings where the same method struck.
How to solve every question.
3 families of moves. Every method in the index carries the one it rewards.
STEP decoded by year.
19 sittings on one thread, each bar split by the areas the paper drew on. Hover a year and the needle finds it; click to open its stats.
STEP’s greatest hits.
The methods used by the decoded questions, across every chapter (14 chapters). Click a focus area to see its top methods. Every method opens its chapter in the Methods library.
The 10 methods that hit the most decoded past-paper questions, across every chapter.
No chapter you can skip.
The biggest chapter carries just 21% of the questions, and it takes 8 of them to cover 81%. You cannot revise STEP by betting on three topics. Every chapter opens in the Methods library.
Spend your hours wisely.
One method buys how many past questions? All 149 methods, ranked by what they pay back.
Goldmines
1 method ≈ 4–12 questions · 54 of them · learn these first
Last updated 2026-10-21 · Source: official past papers, classified by The Maths Tailor. Book a call.