Paper 2 (Section A)

1. Volume of solids (taught in Form 2)

2. Most of the formulae given are for this question
3. Make sure the formulae are used correctly
4. Combined solid is sum of volume of the solids
5. Remaining solid is the subtraction of bigger solid and smaller solid

6. Angles of elevation and depression

7. Using trigonometry rule

8. Mathematical reasoning
9. Statement ‘and’ and ‘or’
10. If p, then q. If q, then p.
11. Simultaneous linear equation
12. Equalize the same unknown and take out
13. Example: 4p-2q=15
(2p+4q=19) x2 (to make unknown 4p same)
14. Don’t use add math method as answers will be different
15. The straight line
16. y=mx+c
17. gradient, gradient...
18. What is c? c(y-intercept) is the point where the line touches the y-axis

19. Quadratic expressions and equations

20. ‘solve the equation’ is to find the unknown
21. Change the equation of the question into this form
22. Factories by your own or using calculator
23. Must state x=?, x=?, there will be 2 answers

24. Matrices
25. Will mostly ask inverse matrix
26. If you’re not sure about the answer, check if the whole outcome is identical to the inverse matrix in
the question
27. The answer in a) is related to b)
28. Area and perimeter of circles (same as number 1)
29. 2πr (perimeter or circumference) and πr2 (area)
30. (angle/360 degree) x the formulae above for the area or perimeter of certain part
31. < >

Is more of (number/total number)

32. The formulae given are plain useless
33. Final answer is never less than 0 or more than 1, 1> answer> 0
34. Gradient and area under a graph
35. Based on speed/time graph
=distance is area of the graph
=rate of change of velocity is gradient of the graph
=speed is based on the graph (seldom being asked)
36. Beware of total distance and total speed
Can be varied each year
1) Sets (2004 and 2006)
- shading based on the questions (intersection or union)
- beware of the complement such as A’

2) Graph of functions (2005 and 2007)

- the inequalities (upper line is >, lower line is <)
- if slanted line, you can imagine it into horizontal straight line.Same concept as above.

Paper 2 (Section B) Answer 4 questions

1) Graph of functions
- Linear functions (less likely to come out as it’s a straight line after plotted)
- Quadratic functions (2004 and 2005)
- Cubic functions (2007)
- Reciprocal functions (2006)
= this question is easy because you can detect the type of graph after you plot it.
= elastic ruler is recommended
= x-axis and y-axis should be stated in the graph

2) Transformation
- Translation
- Reflection
- Rotation
- Enlargement (be careful with the word ‘to’ and ‘from’)
= combination of transformation like VT
- do T before V.

3) Statistic
- Histogram
= x-axis the upper boundary with an additional lower boundary at the front of the graph
= y-axis is frequency
- Frequency Polygon
= x-axis is midpoint
= y-axis is frequency
- Ogive
= x-axis is upper boundary
= y-axis is cumulative frequency
= additional upper boundary should be added to the table
= x-axis and y-axis should be stated in the graph

4) Plans and elevations

- plan is looked from above
- elevation is looked from the side of the solid
- the length and the edge (ABCD) should be stated correctly
- similar to a chapter of the living skills in PMR

5) Earth as a sphere
- latitude is vertical and longitude is horizontal of the sphere
- nautical mile