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Final exam countdown

IB Maths AA SL: 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 SLAA 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 in context: kinematics, integration with a boundary condition, optimisation

    Revise

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

  2. Day 2

    Probability and distributions: conditional probability, binomial inequalities, normal bounds

    Revise

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

  3. Day 3

    Functions: rational functions, transformations, inverses and logs

    Revise

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

  4. Day 4

    Trigonometry: equations with several solutions, radians, triangles in context

    Revise

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

  5. Day 5

    Sequences, logs and proof, with exact Paper 1 answers

    Revise

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

  6. Day 6

    Accuracy: 2 s.f. answers, early rounding and ignored accuracy instructions

    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": substituting or working back from the given answer

    Check this mistake

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

  8. Day 8

    Missing brackets and arithmetic slips on Paper 1 (subtracting, squaring, simplifying)

    Check this mistake

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

  9. Day 9

    Doing by hand what the GDC should do on Paper 2, and not writing what you solved

    Check this mistake

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

  10. Day 10

    Answer in the wrong form: asymptotes not as equations, coordinates vs values, unfinished answers

    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.

More for the final weeks

Other plans for IB Maths AA SL: Mock prep · Back to school · Results day · 30-day challenge · IA rescue week · all exam-season plans