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
23
Questions
23
Worked
100%
22
Methods triggered
2
Papers
Theme mix
- Pure15
- Mechanics4
- Statistics4
Chapter mix · 2014
- Integration4
- Mechanics4
- Probability & Statistics4
- Sequences & Series3
- Coordinate Geometry & Conics2
- Combinatorics & Binomial1
- Complex Numbers1
- Differential Equations1
- Functions & Curve Sketching1
- Trigonometry1
- Vectors & Matrices1
Methods triggered this session
Each method that at least one question in this session hits.
- 1×2
- 2×2
- 3×2
- 4×1Track magnitude with the ratio of consecutive terms or with iterated logarithmsCombinatorics & Binomial
- 5×1Rotation as multiplication: encode equilateral triangles and right angles by a fixed unimodular factorComplex Numbers
- 6×1Find a locus by eliminating the parameter between the two coordinate equationsCoordinate Geometry & Conics
- 7×1Differentiate the contact condition twice to pin down the osculating circle or higher-order tangencyCoordinate Geometry & Conics
- 8×1Parametrise the conic, then run all tangent/normal/chord algebra in the parameterCoordinate Geometry & Conics
- 9×1
- 10×1Count roots by sketching one side and sweeping a horizontal or moving line across itFunctions & Curve Sketching
Try a method on a real paper
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