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
10
Questions
10
Worked
100%
10
Methods triggered
1
Papers
Theme mix
- Pure6
- Mechanics3
- Statistics1
Chapter mix · 2010
- Mechanics3
- Coordinate Geometry & Conics2
- Algebra & Inequalities1
- Integration1
- Probability & Statistics1
- Sequences & Series1
- Vectors & Matrices1
Methods triggered this session
Each method that at least one question in this session hits.
- 1×1Work with symmetric functions and power-sum recurrences instead of the roots themselvesAlgebra & Inequalities
- 2×1Differentiate the contact condition twice to pin down the osculating circle or higher-order tangencyCoordinate Geometry & Conics
- 3×1Drop coordinates / direction vectors onto a 3D solid and grind dot productsCoordinate Geometry & Conics
- 4×1
- 5×1Treat the two horizontal coordinates of projectile motion separately, then eliminate the timeMechanics
- 6×1
- 7×1
- 8×1
- 9×1Solve a linear recurrence with the characteristic equation, fixing from initial termsSequences & Series
- 10×1Read off a standard locus by completing the square or spotting the dot/modulus signatureVectors & Matrices
Try a method on a real paper
Open the STEP methods app to see worked examples, linked questions and the 3-panel revision view.
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