Glossary
- Curated question
- — Past-paper question with a worked solution and a tagged method.
- Method
- — Portable technique that pops up across years.
- Worked solution
- — Step-by-step solution written by us in our voice.
- Past paper
- — Official exam session published by the board.
These pages only count the curated set: questions with both a worked solution and at least one tagged method. Bulk past papers without that treatment are hidden.
Session overview
26
Questions
26
Worked
100%
23
Methods triggered
2
Papers
Theme mix
- Pure15
- Mechanics6
- Statistics5
Chapter mix · 2006
- Mechanics6
- Probability & Statistics5
- Sequences & Series3
- Algebra & Inequalities2
- Coordinate Geometry & Conics2
- Functions & Curve Sketching2
- Integration2
- Complex Numbers1
- Differential Equations1
- Proof & Number Theory1
- Vectors & Matrices1
Methods triggered this session
Each method that at least one question in this session hits.
- 1×2
- 2×2Reduce a collision on a line to two scalars: conservation of momentum plus Newton's restitution ruleMechanics
- 3×2Recognise the standard model, then approximate Binomial by Poisson or NormalProbability & Statistics
- 4×2
- 5×2Generate a recurrence by differentiating a defining relation times (Leibniz / Maclaurin)Sequences & Series
- 6×1Prove an inequality or an ordering by reading off the sign of a well-chosen derivativeDifferentiation
- 7×1Run the discriminant (with Vieta sign analysis) as the engine for real-root and parameter conditionsAlgebra & Inequalities
- 8×1Prove an inequality by writing the gap as a sum of squares or via Cauchy-SchwarzAlgebra & Inequalities
- 9×1Rotation as multiplication: encode equilateral triangles and right angles by a fixed unimodular factorComplex Numbers
- 10×1Parametrise the conic, then run all tangent/normal/chord algebra in the parameterCoordinate Geometry & Conics
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