Practice Paper 2: w.b. 17th November

Practice Paper 3: w.b. 15th December

Mock Exams (SA2): w.b. 12th January (3 weeks)

ALL students will be able to: 

• describe the results of using index laws, including with positive integer powers, square roots, and cube roots of numbers 

• write one number as a power of another 

• write ordinary numbers in standard form 

• write numbers in standard form as ordinary numbers 

In addition, Higher Tier students will be able to: 

• use fractional and negative powers of numbers 

• express exact answers that are irrational numbers using surds

ALL students will be able to: 

• identify key properties of quadratic graphs 

• draw cubic graphs 

• draw reciprocal graphs 

• identify graphs of linear, quadratic, cubic and reciprocal functions by shape 

• draw real-life graphs 

• draw graphs of water flows 

In addition, Higher Tier students will be able to: 

• draw graphs of trigonometric functions 

• draw transformations of trigonometric graphs 

• draw graphs of exponential functions 

• find gradients of tangents at a point on a curve 

• calculate the area under a graph 

• find and use the equation of a circle 

ALL students will be able to: 

• recall Pythagoras’ theorem 

• recall trigonometric ratios for right-angled triangles (SOHCAHTOA) 

• recall exact trigonometric values of sinθ and cosθ for

  θ = 0°, 30°, 45°, 60° and 90° and recall the exact value of tanθ for θ = 0°, 30°, 45° and 60° 

• state that a vector has a length and direction 

• write a vector using column notation

• write a vector using arrow notation

• write a vector using underlining notation e.g. a 

• recall that printed vectors can be in boldface e.g. a 

• identify multiples of vectors and parallel vectors 

• add and subtract column vectors 

• use vectors in diagrams 

In addition, Higher Tier students will be able to: 

• recall the sine rule or cosine rule for non-right-angled triangles 

• recall the area of a triangle formula using trigonometry 

• calculate the length of a vector 

ALL students will be able to: 

• use set notation 

• show sets in Venn diagrams 

• calculate probabilities from sets and Venn diagrams 

• draw sample space diagrams 

• draw frequency trees 

• draw tree diagrams 

• identify independent and dependent events 

In addition, Higher Tier students will be able to: 

• use conditional probability notation 

• recognise when one set of events is a subset of another 

ALL students will be able to: 

• write terms in a sequence using a term-to-term rule 

• describe the term-to-term rule of a sequence in words 

• draw a term of a sequence given in diagram form 

• identify if a given value is a term of a sequence 

• write a sequence using a position-to-term rule 

• find the n^th term of a sequence 

• write terms of an arithmetic sequence  

• write terms of a geometric sequence 

• write terms of a quadratic sequence 

• write terms of a Fibonacci-type sequence 

• identify other special sequences including square numbers, cube numbers and triangular numbers 

In addition, Higher Tier students will be able to: 

• find the n^th term of quadratic and geometric sequences 

ALL students will be able to: 

• identify compound units involving speed, distance, and time or density, mass, and volume or pressure, force, and area 

• calculate rates of pay and rates of flow 

• identify quantities in direct proportion and inverse proportion 

• draw proportionality graphs  

• calculate with exchange rates 

• calculate growth and decay 

• calculate with compound interest 

In addition, Higher Tier students will be able to: 

• recall conversions between units of area  

• recall conversions between units of volume 

• construct proportionality equations using a constant of proportionality 

• calculate the gradient of a curve at a point using a tangent 

• calculate the average gradient of a curve between two points using a chord 

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