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Final exam countdown

IB Maths AA HL: final exam countdown

A 12-day checklist for the run-up to the exams: the topics Examiner Insights ranks highest, the most common mistakes, then a full timed paper. Tick each day off; your ticks are saved in this browser only.

Start day 1

Paper 1: confirmed dates

DateSessionPaper
Monday 9 November 2026November 2026IB HLAA Paper 1 (source)

IB had not published the May 2027 timetable when we last checked (5 October 2026). Check your board’s timetable: IB timetable · our exam dates page.

Your 12-day checklist

  1. Day 1

    Calculus: volumes about the y-axis, differential equations, pdfs

    Revise

    Notes · Practise Unit 5: Calculus · What the examiners say

  2. Day 2

    Proof, induction and complex numbers

    Revise

    Notes · Practise Unit 1: Number and algebra · What the examiners say

  3. Day 3

    Trigonometric equations and vectors

    Revise

    Notes · Practise Unit 3: Geometry and trigonometry · What the examiners say

  4. Day 4

    Probability: conditional, discrete and continuous distributions

    Revise

    Notes · Practise Unit 4: Statistics and probability · What the examiners say

  5. Day 5

    Functions: rational graphs, transformations, logs

    Revise

    Notes · Practise Unit 2: Functions · What the examiners say

  6. Day 6

    Accuracy: early rounding, 2 s.f. answers and ignoring the stated number of decimal places

    Check this mistake

    Read the fix on Examiner Insights, then find one question where you made it in My mistakes.

  7. Day 7

    "Show that" and proofs: verifying, working backwards or working on both sides

    Check this mistake

    Read the fix on Examiner Insights, then find one question where you made it in My mistakes.

  8. Day 8

    Slow algebra on Paper 2 where the GDC is expected

    Check this mistake

    Read the fix on Examiner Insights, then find one question where you made it in My mistakes.

  9. Day 9

    Arithmetic with limits, fractions and simultaneous equations on Paper 1

    Check this mistake

    Read the fix on Examiner Insights, then find one question where you made it in My mistakes.

  10. Day 10

    Trigonometric equations: missing solutions (obtuse, general or divided away)

    Check this mistake

    Read the fix on Examiner Insights, then find one question where you made it in My mistakes.

  11. Day 11

    Sit a past or specimen paper under timed conditions

    Full paper

    Prediction Papers (with an IB plan or the free 7-day trial), or the free 20-question sample (PDF). Or a paper from the past papers.

  12. Day 12

    Formula sheet, equipment and an early night

    Last day

    Read the formula sheet once, pack your equipment, and stop revising early.

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