Topic List Applications & Interpretation HL - 2024-26

This course is all about how to collect, represent and analyse this data to produce accurate models of the world that
can be used to make real, useful predictions. The world is full to the brim with data which is potentially infinitely
useful to us.

HIGH LEVEL Percentage of final grade Time for Exam Deadline

St Peter´s Y11 Dec Mock Dec 2024
St Peter´s Y11 May Mock Needed to enter PreU2 May 2025
Exploration 20 Nov 2025
Paper 1 30 120 May 2026
Paper 2 30 120 May 2026
Paper 3 20 75 May 2026
GDC allowed in all exams, but algebraic skills still needed

Year 1
Topic Ch. Content
Number & ●​ Rules of Indices
Algebra ●​ Composite algebraic functions
●​ Transforming graphs
●​ Inverse algebraic functions, including needing factorising
●​ Laws of logarithms
●​ Convert between exponentials and logarithms of base 10 and e
●​ Solving or inverse functions with logs or exponentials
●​ Logarithmic function for restricted group
●​ Scaling very large or small numbers using logs
●​ Linearising data to determined if the data is exponential
●​ Find the point of intersection of two lines
●​ Use GDC to solve equations with two or three variables (simultaneous equations)

Sequences, 5 ●​ Use formula notation for finding terms in arithmetic sequences

Exponentials & & ●​ Use formula notation for adding terms in arithmetic sequences
Logarithms 10 ●​ Calculate simple interest
●​ Use formula notation for finding terms in geometric sequences
●​ Use formula notation for adding terms in geometric sequences
●​ The sum of infinite geometric sequences
●​ Calculate compound interest or depreciation and inflation
●​ Amortization & annuities
●​ Model real life situations and recognise if they are exponential or logarithmic
●​ Recognise the equation of an asymptote
●​ Rules of indices
●​ Convert between exponentials and logarithms of base 10 and e
Vectors 3 ●​ Unit and column vectors
●​ Operations and magnitude of vectors
●​ Rescaling and normalising vectors
●​ Vector equation of a line in 2D and 3D
●​ r = a +λ𝑏 where b is the direction vector of a line
●​ Model velocity with vectors in 2D
●​ Scalar product of two vectors
●​ Angle between two vectors
●​ Vector product of two vectors
●​ IvxwI = area parallelogram, also to find area of triangles
●​ Components of vectors

Collecting Data 3 ●​ Definitions of population, sample, random sample, discrete and continuous data
●​ Design data collection methods
●​ Recognise the reliability of data and bias
●​ Calculate and interpret outliers
●​ Collect data in tables with correct headings and units
●​ Calculate measures of central tendency (mean, median and mode)
●​ Estimate mean from group data or a frequency table
●​ Calculate measures of dispersion (IQR, standard deviation and variance)
●​ Effect of changing the original data eg. one value is 3 lower or mean is 3 lower...
●​ Draw histograms with equal class intervals (bar chart)
●​ Draw cumulative frequency curves
●​ Read off median, quartiles and IQR from CF graphs
●​ Draw box and whisker diagrams from data or CF curves, with outliers if relevant
●​ Compare box and whisker diagrams and recognise if normally distributed

Correlation 6 ●​ Recognise independent and dependent units

●​ Draw scatter graphs, with line of best fit through the mean point
●​ Use GDC to calculate Pearson´s product-moment correlation, r, to test for linearity
●​ Use GDC to find the equation of the line of regression
●​ Use line of regression to predict values, without extrapolation
●​ Write the equations of piecewise functions
●​ Demonstrate that piecewise functions are continuous
●​ Regression for non-linear functions
●​ Least squares regression curve using tech for quadratic, cubic, exponential, power
and sine function
●​ Sum of square residuals as a measure of fit
2
●​ Coefficient of determination, 𝑅
2 2
●​ 𝑅 = 1 - SSres/SStot therefore 𝑅 = 1 if SSres/SStot = 0

Probability 7 ●​ Understand trial, outcomes, equally likely, relative frequency and sample space
& ●​ Calculate basic probabilities and mutually exclusive probabilities
5 ●​ Use correct probability notation
●​ Calculate missing probability from a relative frequency table
●​ Draw sample space to represent two simultaneous events
●​ Draw probability tree diagrams
●​ Calculate expectancy of an outcome
 ●​ Types of number I, Z, Q, R
●​ Draw Venn diagrams
●​ Calculate probabilities of combined events
●​ Calculate conditional probabilities
●​ Calculate probabilities using the binomial distribution
●​ Calculate the mean and variance of the binomial distribution
●​ Sketch normal distribution curve, with 6 standard deviations
●​ Calculate normal probabilities using GDC
●​ Calculate inverse normal probabilities using GDC
●​ Poisson distribution, its mean and variance
●​ sum of two Poisson distributions has a Poisson distribution
●​ Linear transformation of a single random variable
●​ E(aX+b) = aE(X)+b and Var(aX+b) = Var (X)
●​ Expected value of linear combinations of n random variables
●​ Variance of linear combinations of n independent random variables

Hypothesis 8 ●​ Use GDC to calculate Spearman´s Rank correlation, rs, to test monotocity​
Tests ●​ Recognise that Spearman´s rank is less effected by outliers than PPMC
●​ Categorising numerical data into a Chi Squared table
●​ Formulate null and alternative hypotheses, H0 and H1
●​ Use GDC to find X2, degrees of freedom and expected values
●​ Use table to find critical X2 values for a given significance level
●​ Understand whether to accept a hypothesis using X2 or p-values
●​ Use GDC to calculate one or two-tailed t-tests, as long as normally distributed
●​ Use the p-value to compare the means of two populations
●​ Recognise the difference between reliability (t-test) and validity (content, criteria)

2
Tests of 14 2
●​ Central limit theorem that X - N( µ, σ ) implies that 𝑋 - N( µ,
σ
)
Validity & Error 𝑛
●​ Confidence interval for the mean of a normal population
●​ Critical values and critical regions
●​ Test for population mean for normal distribution
●​ Test for proportion using binomial distribution
●​ Test for population mean using Poisson distribution
●​ Use tech to test the population PMCC, p,is 0 for bivariate normal distributions
●​ 𝑥 as an unbiased estimator or µ
2 2
●​ 𝑆𝑛−1 as an unbiased estimate of σ
●​ Type I and II errors including calculations of their probabilities
●​ Reliability: Test-retest, parallel forms
●​ Validity: Content, criterion-related

Internal Create your own research project to investigate the links between to variables or to model
Assessment and predict.
Draft deadline November 2025
Final Deadline before first day back January 2026

End of Year 11 May 2025

Mock
Year 2
Matrices 9 ●​ Matrix notation and defintions
●​ Operations with matrices
●​ Determinant of a matrix
●​ Solving quotations using an inverse matrix
●​ Eigenvalues and eigenvectors
●​ Diagonalization of 2x2 matrices
●​ Solving word problems with matrices
●​ Geometric transformations in 2D using matrices
●​ Area of image = det A x area of object
●​ Transition matrices and powers of transition matrices
●​ Regular Markov chain
●​ Initial state probability matrices
●​ Calculation of steady state and long term probabilities by repeated multiplication of
the transition matrix or solving a system of linear equations

Coordintate 4 ●​ Recognise coordinates in three dimensions

Geometry ●​ Calculate the midpoint of a line segment
●​ Pythagoras to find the distance between two points in three dimensional space
●​ Calculate the gradient of a slope
●​ Recognise gradients of parallel and perpendicular lines
●​ Find equation of a line using y = mx+c
●​ Find the equations of perpendicular bisectors
●​ Demonstrate that a coordinate is or is not part of a given line
●​ Understand cells, sites, vertices and boundaries for Voronoi diagrams
●​ Construct perpendicular bisectors to construct Voronoi diagrams
●​ Apply and interpret Voronoi diagrams for real life contexts
●​ Consider what happens to the Voronoi diagram if an extra site is added

Linear, 5 ●​ Recognise a function as a one-to-one mapping

Quadratic, & ●​ Recognise linear, quadratic, cubic, exponential, logarithmic and trigonometric
Cubic & 9 functions
Inverse
●​ Define domain and range of a function
Functions
●​ Substitute into functions to plot a graph
●​ Find the point of intersection of two lines
●​ Use GDC to solve equations with three variables
●​ Understand that the inverse function undoes a function
●​ Draw an inverse function if it exists across line y = x
●​ Draw or sketch quadratics and cubics, realising the difference
●​ Identify minimum or maximum points, intercepts, roots or equation of symmetry
●​ Find roots by factorising or using the quadratic formula
●​ Calculate the equation of the line of symmetry
●​ Model real life situations and recognise if they are quadratic or cubic
●​ Write equations for direct and inverse proportion
●​ Use direct proportion formulas to predict missing values

Differentiation 12 ●​ Use correct notation eg. dy/dx

●​ Understand the derivative is a rate of change or gradient
●​ Recognise if a graph is increasing, decreasing or a turning point from its gradient
 ●​ Differentiate polynomials with integer exponents (powers)
●​ Use differentiation to find local maximum or minimum points
●​ Optimisation used to solve real life problems eg. maximise profits
●​ Calculate the tangent or normal to a given point on a curve

𝑥
●​ Derive sinx, cosx tanx, 𝑒 , lnx
●​ Chain, product and quotient rules
●​ The second derivative to determine max or minimum points

Measure, 1, ●​ Rounding appropriately to whole number, sf, dp

Shape and 2 ●​ Finding upper and lower bounds
Space ●​ Calculating with numbers in standard form
●​ Calculating percentage error
●​ Volume and surface area of prisms
●​ Volume and surface area of pyramids, cones, spheres and hemispheres
●​ Calculate the arc of a circle, perimeter or area of a sector
●​ Area and arc of sectors in radians

Integration 13 ●​ Approximate areas using the trapezoidal rule

●​ Recognise that integration is the opposite of differentiation
●​ Understand that integration is used to find the area under a curve
●​ Use GDC to integrate polynomials between two boundaries
𝑛 1 𝑥
●​ Indefinite integration of 𝑥 , sinx, cosx, 2 , and 𝑒
𝐶𝑜𝑠 𝑥
●​ Integration by inspection or substitution
●​ Area of a region between a curve and the x or y axis
●​ Volumes of revolution around the x or y axis
●​ Kinematic problems involving integration and differentiation for displacement,
velocity and acceleration
●​ Setting up differential equations from a word problem
●​ Solving differentials by separating the variables
●​ Slope fields and their diagram
●​ Euler's method for approximation first order differential equations
●​ Numerical solution of dy/dx = f(x, y)
●​ Numerical solutions of coupled system dx/dt = f(x, y, t) and dy/dt = (x, y, t)
●​ Phase portrait for solutions to differentials
●​ Analysis for future paths of distinct, real, complex and imaginary eigenvalues
●​ Sketching the trajectories of phase portraits
●​ Solving differentials using Euler method

Graph Theory 15 ●​ Definitions of graph theory; vertices, edge, adjacent, degree

●​ Simple, complex and weighted graphs
●​ In and out degree of directed graphs
●​ Subgraphs and trees
●​ Adjacency matrices
●​ Walks, trails, paths, circuits, cycles
●​ Number of k length walks between two vertices
●​ Weighted adjacency tables
●​ Transition matrices for strongly connected, undirected or directed graphs
●​ Tree and cycle algorithms with undirected graphs
 ●​ Eulerian trails and circuits
●​ Hamilton paths and cycles
●​ Minimum spanning tree graph algorithms: Kruskals and Prims
●​ Chinese postman problem and algorithm for solution with up to 4 odd vertices
●​ Travelling salesman problem to determine the Hamilton cycle of least weight
●​ Nearest neighbour algorithm to find the upper bound in salesman problem
●​ Delete vertex algorithm for lower bound in salesman problem
●​ Markov chains

Trigonometry ● ●​ SOHCAHTOA to find angles and lengths in right-angled triangles

●​ Angles of elevation or depression
●​ Calculate an angle between two intersecting lines or a line and plane
●​ Sine and Cosine rules to find angles or lengths
●​ Sine rule for the ambiguous case
●​ Calculate area of a triangle using the trigonometric formula
●​ Tanx = sinx/cosx
●​ Pythagorean trigonometric identity
●​ Exact results for sin30, sin 45, tan60 etc from special triangles or GDC

Trigonometric 11 ●​ Recognise trigonometric graphs and their domains and ranges

Functions ●​ Recognise how the unit circle links triangles and trigonometric graphs
●​ Understand period, sinusoidal, amplitudes and local maximum points
●​ Solve basic trigonometric equations
●​ Interpret and read off values from trigonometric graphs
●​ Transform trigonometric graphs by altering its equation
●​ Model real life situations and recognise if they are trigonometric
●​ Sinusoidal models using radians unless degrees symbol stated
●​ Converting between degrees and radians
●​ Unit circle in terms of sin and cos and link to graphs
●​ Solving trigonometric equations for a finite interval
●​ Adding sinusoidal functions with a phase shift
●​ Trigonometric identities in matrices

Complex 8 ●​ Complex numbers in cartesian form

Numbers ●​ Complex solutions to quadratics
●​ Argand diagrams
●​ Complex numbers in polar form
●​ Complex numbers in exponential form
●​ Converting between cartesian and polar complex numbers
●​ Complex numbers in matrices

End of Year 12 March 2026

Mock
Real Exam First week of May 2026