The two exams

Examination 1 and Examination 2

• Examination 1 40 marks in 1 hour of writing time; 20 per cent of the study score.

  Short-answer and extended-answer questions, all compulsory, covering every area of study (Outcome 1). No technology (calculators or software) and no notes.

• Examination 2 80 marks in 2 hours of writing time; 40 per cent of the study score.

  Section A: 20 multiple-choice questions worth 1 mark each. Section B: 60 marks of short-answer and extended-answer questions, including multi-stage questions of increasing complexity. An approved technology with numerical, graphical, symbolic and statistical functionality, and one bound reference.

How the course practises them

• Examination 1. 103 no-technology questions in parts, exact working by hand, each step marked on its own marking guide.

• Examination 2, Section A. 175 multiple-choice questions with five options; each wrong option says which slip it catches.

• Examination 2, Section B. 77 multi-stage questions with technology, each step marked, with follow-through from earlier parts.

• Two timed papers. Timed paper 1 is an Examination 1 paper of 43 marks in 65 minutes, free with an account; timed paper 2 is an Examination 2 paper of 81 marks in 122 minutes, both at the exams' pace of 1.5 minutes a mark.

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