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Final exam countdown

IB Maths AI 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 SLAI 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

    Statistics: hypothesis tests, probability and distributions

    Revise

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

  2. Day 2

    Finance, sequences and accuracy

    Revise

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

  3. Day 3

    Calculus: tangents and normals, rates, trapezoidal rule, optimisation

    Revise

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

  4. Day 4

    Models: exponential, sinusoidal and inverse notation

    Revise

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

  5. Day 5

    Triangles, 3D shapes and Voronoi diagrams

    Revise

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

  6. Day 6

    Accuracy: 2 s.f. answers, early rounding, and ignoring the accuracy asked for

    Check this mistake

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

  7. Day 7

    No working shown: bare GDC answers and calculator notation

    Check this mistake

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

  8. Day 8

    χ² and t-tests: hypotheses, the comparison and the conclusion in context

    Check this mistake

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

  9. Day 9

    Finance: compound-interest formula with regular payments, TVM signs and periods

    Check this mistake

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

  10. Day 10

    Probability: adding instead of multiplying, conditional sample spaces, without replacement

    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

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