IB Mathematics Analysis & Approaches SL Practice Exams

Sit short skills checks and paper-style sets written for this course. Published sets include the questions and a mark scheme.

Practice Exams

Resources for IB Mathematics Analysis & Approaches SL

Topic skills check

A short, untimed-friendly set to see which techniques are still rusty.

Use this as a 25–40 minute check on one topic from IB Mathematics Analysis & Approaches SL, not as a full paper. Pick a single theme (for example functions or calculus) and work four to six mixed items from easiest to most structured.

Suggested structure: two quick technique items, two short problems that need a diagram or a model, and one longer item that asks you to explain a choice. Keep a calculator policy consistent with the topic you chose.

Questions can be attached later. For now, open the Question Bank for this course, filter to one topic, and treat the first handful as your check. Mark what you could not start in under a minute — that list becomes your next study block.

Admins: paste a question list, embed a form, or link a PDF in this editor when the set is ready.

Paper 1 style timed set

A timed sitting that follows a non-calculator / short-response rhythm.

This is a practice sitting in the spirit of Paper 1 for IB Mathematics Analysis & Approaches SL. It is not an official examination and does not use a real session code.

Duration: about 90 minutes. Calculator: put it away unless your teacher has set a local variant. Shape: several short items first, then two longer questions that need a clear method line.

Write every step you would want a marker to see. If you guess a result, label it as a check, not as the method.

Questions can be attached later. Until then, build a set from the Question Bank using items tagged for Paper 1 or non-calculator work. Admins can replace this paragraph with a link or an embedded paper outline.

Paper 2 style timed set

A longer sitting that expects technology and multi-part reasoning.

This sitting mirrors the pace of Paper 2 for IB Mathematics Analysis & Approaches SL: fewer questions, more parts, and a calculator or other approved technology in play.

Duration: about 90 minutes. Shape: three or four multi-part questions. Early parts should set up a model or a derivative; later parts should interpret or extend it. Show the calculator command or the algebraic line that produced a rounded answer.

Keep exact form until a part explicitly asks for a decimal. Rounding too early is the usual Paper 2 leak.

Questions can be attached later. Point students at the Question Bank Paper 2 filter for now, or drop a PDF link into this resource when you have an internal set.

Full mock outline

How to run a complete practice day without inventing a fake official paper.

A full mock for IB Mathematics Analysis & Approaches SL is a day plan, not a branded exam. Use your school’s licensed papers or internally written sets. Do not upload copyrighted official booklets here unless you have the right to do so.

  • Morning: Paper 1 style sitting, same duration your cohort will face.
  • Break: no reviewing scripts yet — just food and a walk.
  • Afternoon: Paper 2 style sitting (and Paper 3 if your HL class uses it).
  • Same evening: mark against a scheme, then write a one-page error log (topic, mistake type, next drill).

After the day, send students back to the matching Key Concepts refresher and a Topic skills check — not straight into another full paper.

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