Andrew's Guide to IB Mathematics Universe

This is an important blogpost. This is your roadmap to make your DP exams your bitch. Welcome to the ultimate Study Plan!   Over the last two weeks I’ve mapped out the sequence of topics y’all should revise from the start of DP2. Of course, if time’s not on your side, you can simply speed up what I’ve presented here – instead of studying 2-3 1h sessions a week you might want to do 4-6, but that’s entirely up to you.   Starting early is the easiest way to ensure you have a solid foundation when February comes (and normally that’s your 2 nd round of mocks. From February to April, that’s when you put everything you’ve learned to use – this is the time to start cramming past papers, my mocks, other mocks, get your hands on as many quality papers as possible. And when May comes around, you’re confident walking into the exam hall, ready to boss your exams.   As usual, there will be two sets of mocks this year (unless I’m too knackered) – one in mid-September ...

Hello hello! I'm bacc with my favourite topic in the course: logs! Here's some logs for you. Jokes aside, you'll see logs poppin' up everywhere in the course, especially AAHL. Integration, yup. Exponential equations, yup. Modelling, yup. Sequences and series, totally. Without any further ado, allow me to present the second round of logs tests! You may have noticed I got a little softer and let you have a little more time. Ultimately, I want you to show off what you can do, so you should be relatively fast but not  rushing. AASL: AASL Answers: AAHL: AAHL Answers: May the odds be ever in your favour. c: Enjoy your summer and remember to spend some times touching logs (or grass, whatever you prefer!)

Exam writers are nice people. Apart from me, of course. Quite often you’re receiving hints and nudges to keep you in the right direction. A couple times in section A and almost every question in section B. Since IB is a lil annoying with copyright I’ll take screenshots from A-level exams, but of course IB also does this.   Answers already given In some sub-questions you’ll see the correct answer already printed, coming after “Show that”. This question is taken from Edexcel A-level Maths October 2021.   Because the answer is given, you must make your method extremely clear to the marker. If they have a slightest suspicion you fudge your way to the answer they may choose to withhold the last mark (or the only mark in this case).   I’m now at the stage that I could kinda fudge my way to show a printed result – but that’s after a ton of practice and a vague idea of what I’m doing. You’re more than encouraged to use the printed answer to guide your work, bu...