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
20
Questions
20
Worked
100%
21
Methods triggered
2
Papers
Theme mix
- Pure13
- Statistics4
- Mechanics3
Chapter mix · 2019
- Probability & Statistics4
- Mechanics3
- Vectors & Matrices3
- Differential Equations2
- Differentiation2
- Sequences & Series2
- Complex Numbers1
- Functions & Curve Sketching1
- Integration1
- Proof & Number Theory1
Methods triggered this session
Each method that at least one question in this session hits.
- 1×2Recognise the standard model, then approximate Binomial by Poisson or NormalProbability & Statistics
- 2×1
- 3×1Read the qualitative solution straight from the gradient: stationary points, asymptotes and sketch without solvingDifferential Equations
- 4×1Eliminate one unknown from simultaneous ODEs to get a single higher-order equationDifferential Equations
- 5×1Stationary points are the roots of the derivative: factor it, never expand it blindlyDifferentiation
- 6×1Prove an inequality or an ordering by reading off the sign of a well-chosen derivativeDifferentiation
- 7×1Range of a rational or quadratic-in-disguise function via the discriminant of an auxiliary quadraticFunctions & Curve Sketching
- 8×1
- 9×1
- 10×1
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