The KS3 curriculum map

The KS3 Map is the curriculum your child's tutors teach against, published in full. It is free and needs no account — you can read all of it before you decide anything.

What is in it

613 topics	every named concept on the KS3 map, tagged to its year
968 links	"this has to come before that" — the order the subject actually requires
7 subjects	Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, English, History, Geography

Years 10 and 11 are on a page of their own, the GCSE map: 839 GCSE topics in Maths, Combined Science, English Language, English Literature, Geography and History, each joined to the KS3 topics it builds on. It was written against the AQA specifications; AQA has not reviewed or approved it. The GCSE map page says how to open it, with its free flashcards and what is not there yet.

The links are the part worth your attention. A list of topics tells you what is on the curriculum; the links tell you why a gap hurts later. If your child is stuck on simultaneous equations, the map shows the four things underneath it — and it is usually one of those, not the topic they are stuck on, that needs the work.

Why it is public

Two reasons, and the second is the honest one.

1. A parent should be able to see what a tutor will teach before paying for it.
2. It is checkable. If we have the order wrong somewhere, we would rather you could see it and tell us.

How the tutors use it

The same map drives the parts of the product you pay for:

• Goals are places on it. Your child aims at a topic, and the map supplies the route: the topics that have to come first.
• My progress lights its dots: which topics your child has shown are secure, which they are learning, and when.
• Flashcards are tagged to it, so a card knows which topic it belongs to and which topics it depends on.
• A tutor consults it when deciding whether your child is ready for something, or needs a prerequisite first.

You do not have to use the map to use the tutors. It runs underneath either way — this page just says what it is, in case you would like to look.

Reading it

The map has two faces, and a switch at the top right moves between them.

Constellation. Each dot is a topic. Colour is the subject; position groups a subject's topics together. Tap or click any dot to see what it is, which year it sits in, and what it depends on.

Chart. The same topics laid out in lanes, one lane per subject, with the years running left to right. The dots on this face are too small to tap one at a time, so you open a subject instead:

• Click a subject's lane. On a phone or tablet, use the row of subject buttons above the chart.
• The subject opens as a grid: a row for each strand, a column for each year, every topic a button.
• Tap a topic to open the same card the Constellation shows: what it is, what it builds directly on, what it unlocks next, and what mastery looks like. Tapping a topic named in the card moves to it, switching subject if it has to.
• With a mouse, hovering a dot names it before you click.
• All subjects takes you back to the whole chart. Switching between Constellation and Chart keeps the topic you had chosen.

The GCSE map has the same Chart, with the GCSE years in front and Years 7 to 9 dimmed but still tappable.

On your child's own page

The same map is the KS3 map tab of your child's My Goals page, at aitutors.me/study/goals. There it also knows your child:

• In an opened subject, each dot carries one of five states: not started here, learning (○), likely secure (◎), secure (✓) or strand mastered (★). See My progress for what sets each one.
• Your child's year is marked on the grid, and the counts for their year and the year above sit at the top, such as Year 8 · 2 of 40 ✓. A topic counts once it is secure.
• A topic's card adds one line with the date, such as "Secure 16 Oct 2026 · Prof. Newton + check", "Likely secure since 14 Oct 2026" or "Mastered 27 Aug 2026 · Prof. Quill". A secure topic that has been quiet for sixty days reads "Secure · worth a refresh".
• For a topic that is not yet mastered, in a subject your child has a seat for, the card has a Make this my goal button. It names the kind of goal first (foundation, on-track, stretch or big stretch), then sets that topic as a goal, exactly as the picker on My goals does. See Goals and the learning plan.

The public map at /ks3 shows none of this. It has no account behind it, so it shows the curriculum and nothing about any child.

Languages

There is a Chinese edition at /zh/ks3 — the page chrome is translated, while the topic names stay in English because they are the real UK curriculum terms your child meets at school.

What it is not

It is not a syllabus from an exam board, and it is not a national standard. It is our reading of KS3 across seven subjects, assembled so tutors can reason about order. Schools sequence things differently and that is fine — the map is about what depends on what, not about which week anything is taught.