FAQ
WHAT TMUA9 IS
FREE, NO EMAIL GATE, NO CAP
PDFs on the Galleria (TMUA9 Blueprint, the Personal Statement Jamie submitted with his Cambridge application, the Comprehensive Guide to Writing Personal Statements, the 2017 Paper 1 Analysis), read inline at tmua9.com/galleria.
Recorded sessions on the TMUA9 YouTube channel.
Weekly free material drops to the waitlist every Saturday 10:00 London (see Q8 below).
PAID, SUITE PRIVÉE
Four private products: Espresso £147, Noir Premiere £297, Quantum Deluxe £447, STEP Chambre Forte £997.
Each begins with a paper sat under timed conditions and marked blind.
Listed at tmua9.com/galleria/suite-privee.
PAID, TMUA9 SCHOOL
Eight live teaching weekends plus one recorded study week, 15 August 2026 to 11 October 2026. Saturday Workshop and Sunday Lab, 13:00 to 16:00 London, three hours each, plus one private diagnostic hour per student in each teaching week. Maximum 10 students.
8 weekends. 48 hours of group instruction, 8 hours one to one per student, 56 contact hours in total.
Founding cohort: £499, billed every two weeks.
£499, billed every two weeks during term. The £200 deposit is credited toward tuition and comes off the first payment.
The two first trial sessions on Saturday 8 August and Sunday 9 August 2026 are free, 11am to 2pm BST, no card required.
Group sessions are recorded and enrolled students keep the recordings.
Submit a request for a free diagnostic call before buying a ticket.
WHAT THE COHORT COSTS
Founding cohort: £499, billed every two weeks.
£499, billed every two weeks during term. The £200 deposit is credited toward tuition and comes off the first payment.
£200 reserves a place today and is credited toward tuition, coming off the first payment.
The founding rate is lower because it is paid for in three things rather than nothing. It is the first cohort, it is a limited cohort, and the rate holds only on these conditions. Nobody has to wait for a better one: there is not one.
The cohort is small. Every student has a private consultation for every text, not just every week, on top of the 6 group hours, so the teaching week fills before any preparation or marking is done. That is the reason the cohort is limited, and it is the whole of the reason.
There is no promised score. The founding cohort guarantee is set out below.
Free: the two trial sessions on 8 and 9 August 2026, the Galleria PDFs, the recorded sessions on YouTube, the Discord, and the diagnostic call earned through the Requests form.
Enrol at tmua9.com/tickets.
The founding cohort guarantee
- 1.See the teaching before you pay: the trial weekend is free.
- 2.Week one is on trust: attend the first full week, and if you decide it is not for you, your deposit and first payment come back in full.
- 3.After that, my time is on the line, not your money: any student who attends every session, submits every weekly assignment and sits every mock, and whose internal mock has not risen one band by week 8, keeps working with me free of charge until the October test.
This is the founding cohort. No historical outcomes are claimed. The first results table will be built by these ten students.
1. Who teaches?
Every TMUA9 session is taught by Jamie Baek, 9.0 on the TMUA in October 2024 on first sitting.
2. How do I enrol in the 2026 F/W TMUA9 School?
(1) Sit a free trial session on 8 or 9 August 2026.
(2) Enrol at tmua9.com/tickets. The three questions on that page build the week one baseline.
(3) Payment and the written agreement confirm the place.
(4) The programme starts on 15 August with a blind-marked baseline paper.
3. What is the private consultation?
The TMUA9 private consultation is a free consultation offered on TMUA prep or on the personal statement/Cambridge interview. It is offered to the first 3 waitlistees and 1 waitlistee chosen at random. These 4 students are each given a 60-minute diagnosis.
4. Is this online?
The TMUA9 programme, the private consultation and the interviews are all held online. They are hosted one-on-one over Zoom, and each call is recorded. Recordings are sent directly to the student who was offered the consultation, and only that student has access to the recording. It will not be released to the public.
5. What if we miss a week?
Sessions are rescheduled within the same week where possible.
6. What happens if the score does not move?
9.0 is the training target, what the programme is built to produce. No score is promised, there is no score floor attached to the fee, and no part of the fee depends on a result.
The founding cohort guarantee is the whole of the position: Week one is on trust: attend the first full week, and if you decide it is not for you, your deposit and first payment come back in full. After that, my time is on the line, not your money: any student who attends every session, submits every weekly assignment and sits every mock, and whose internal mock has not risen one band by week 8, keeps working with me free of charge until the October test.
This is the founding cohort. No historical outcomes are claimed. The first results table will be built by these ten students.
7. How do I verify the 9.0?
The original results correspondence and statement of results are shown live at the private conversation.
8. How does the waitlist work?
Every Saturday at 10:00 London, a new batch of free materials, worked on throughout the week, is sent directly to the email of everyone signed up to the waitlist. The system rewards those willing to deeply analyse what is provided.
Whether or not you sign up, all materials eventually become publicly accessible in the Galleria at tmua9.com. Those who hold a waitlist slot are eligible for two additional things:
(1) Two weeks of early access to the materials before public release.
(2) The first three to join, and one more chosen at random, each receive a 60-minute diagnostic and consultation on TMUA preparation. This consultation is one-to-one over Zoom, recorded, and sent directly and only to each selected student. Jamie Baek provides this consultation personally, and the recording is never released publicly.
The lot size of the waitlist changes for each drop. You are encouraged to read every article in the archive and Galleria beforehand, and to sit a mock exam prior to each consultation. Those who gain the most bring questions, concurrent problems, and a detailed self-diagnosis to the session, rather than asking generic questions already answered publicly. The goal is to serve those who find the released materials genuinely useful.
9. The course that I am applying to does not necessarily need the TMUA.
The free materials still help. Fast, intuitive quantitative reasoning is useful for any numerate degree and any numerate career. The test does not know which course you listed on UCAS; the skills it trains transfer. One focused hour a day through the TMUA materials will improve your mathematical intuition if done correctly.
10. Is the blueprint enough?
No single resource is enough on its own. The blueprint is a system for how to prepare, what to analyse, and how to close your own gaps. You still have to do the work. The students who move from 4~5 to 7+ are not the ones who read it once; they are the ones who use it every day.
11. I only have 8 weeks left. Can I still improve?
Yes, but the shorter the window, the more honest you have to be about what you are actually doing with it. Two weeks of focused, deliberate work is more useful than two months of passive reading. The question is not whether you have enough time; it is whether you are willing to use the time you have with enough intensity.
12. I don't fully get the schema on how to actually analyse each paper properly.
That's fine. The methodology is fully built in hindsight, and only comes after skills. You're not meant to know how to perfect the method from scratch while you're still getting 4s and 5s. That's why TMUA9 offers guides via different avenues. Share what you did in the Discord, and mentors and other students, including myself, will share their ideas. There is no singular answer; everyone's approach is different. We only suggest one path that is proven to work.
13. What do you think of just doing a lot of maths ("mathmaxxing")?
I have a love/hate relationship with this. The admissions pages at both Oxford and Cambridge give the vague advice of "do more maths." The reality: to do a lot of maths you need to be good at maths, but to get good at maths, blindly doing volume is terrible advice, especially on a tight application timeline. Volume is a byproduct of competence, not the other way around. Vague advice gives vague action steps and diluted focus, which is why TMUA9 stresses deliberate practice. At the eclipse of love and competence, doing a lot of maths is like dancing, beautiful, elegant, you never want to stop. But none of that happens when you have 6 weeks left, schoolwork piling up, a personal statement to tailor, and no clue how to prepare.
14. Can we bluff our way into Oxbridge/Imperial/LSE/UCL?
I have seen firsthand how students who believe they can circumnavigate their way into top universities end up suffering brutal consequences. Admissions officers see it constantly: inadequacy and entitlement masquerading as assertive bluff. There are two reasons you fail to get into a top university, an attitude problem or an attribute problem. The attribute problem is what we teach. No teaching can fix the attitude problem for you.
15. I don't think I can get a 9.0. I don't think I can get into Oxford. I don't think I can ace the interview.
Do not settle for less than what you deserve. Your insecurity is not a sufficient reason to not be compensated for what you are actually worth. The emotions you feel inside an exam are independent of the outcomes. In my first A-levels I walked out certain of 3 A*s, I got ABD. In my resits, every paper felt like a B~C, I secured 3 A*s. Your wellbeing is strictly influenced by your ability to forget the past and execute the work that must be done right now, in the thin slate of the present. That emotional control presents itself at every step of the admissions process.