Functional Skills Maths (Fast Track) 2024-25

This course is designed for people who have a high standard of maths and require level 2 Functional skills for work or to gain entry to a level 3 or HE course. It is taught across one week with the exams taken on the Friday. Students taking this course need to demonstrate their commitment by completed tasks before the course starts. If this option is not for you, we also deliver Functional Skills at our Willerby Grove and Houghall campuses during the year.

Number skills
Measure, shape and space
Handling information and data

Many employers and universities require their staff/students to hold qualifications in both maths and English at level 2.

Many students who are successful on this course go on to study a level 3 course or move on to a Higher Education course. Alternatively, you could study towards a GCSE in maths.

You do not need to hold any previous qualifications for this course, however you cannot study this programme if you already have a level 2 qualification in maths. At enrolment you will be diagnostically assessed to see if your skills are at a high enough level to take the fast track option. If successful, you would need to complete an online course and maths tasks before the course starts.

Our entry requirements are in place to support our students in achieving the qualifications they have chosen to study. In addition to the entry requirements, all students will be regularly assessed by East Durham College at an early stage in their study programme. This is to ensure that students are enrolled onto courses which suit their abilities – following assessment, there may be occasions when students are transferred to a relevant course at a higher or lower level in order to ensure they are enrolled on to the right course for them to achieve and progress.

Entry onto any course at EDC may have entry requirements in addition to exam results; this includes but is not limited to DBS checks, references, fitness to practice and at times physical requirements to be capable of achieving the practical elements of the course without assistance. Entry onto any course at East Durham College is subject to final approval from the Assistant Principal.

The course is assessed with one exam at the end of the week. The exam is divided into two sections, calculator and non-calculator.

Start June 2025 - Please register your interest to be invited in for an assessment. Please note - you need to show you are currently working at Level 2 to be accepted onto the course and also be available for the full week Monday to Friday.

One week intensive classroom delivery. Monday - Friday, 9.30-4.00. You must attend all sessions to be entered for the exam.