IBintense Posted April 14, 2017 Report Share Posted April 14, 2017 Hi there! I had a question on how I should prepare for my Math SL exam which is on May 5th. I was planning on completing all question banks for each unit, going over lessons and textbook questions. Do you think that is enough? I understand a lot of people do past papers however, if I complete all the questions in the questionbank, isn't that basically the same thing because those are past questions as well? Or is there a big difference between doing past papers and question banks? Please let me know! Thank you Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABKor752 Posted April 14, 2017 Report Share Posted April 14, 2017 I would say that doing a paper stimulates the testing environment, so that is more useful. That does not mean, however, that you can't use questions from a question bank. You can do that, however I suggest that at least once you take a full practice test along with those questions for your individually-needed topics. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IB`NOT`ez Posted April 15, 2017 Report Share Posted April 15, 2017 At this point, Maths SL Questionbank questions no longer match the recent questions in terms of difficulty. I would advise sticking to Past papers from now down 'till May 2013, or even better, doing some Maths HL Section A questions on topics that overlap with the SL syllabus. Alternatively, which is what I'm doing currently, you can focus on specific weaknesses from the syllabus and solidify your skill in that area – Questionbank will be ideal in this scenario. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
inriya Posted April 16, 2017 Report Share Posted April 16, 2017 (edited) Stick to past paper. Why? It tests your speed and also the format of an exam than questionbank. And also, on Questionbank you may be tempted to press on the answer, than a past paper that you have to download, find the question, look at it. (I answer this by experience when I got a straight 7 in Math SL without Questionbank but only past papers from 2006-2015 May and Nov papers.) Edited April 16, 2017 by inriya Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recycle Bin Posted April 16, 2017 Report Share Posted April 16, 2017 Yes, definitely past papers as others have said. QuestionBanks are usually used long before the main exams. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Seohin Posted April 17, 2017 Report Share Posted April 17, 2017 Are there specimen papers released for the year 2017 or we just use 2016? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
voss03 Posted April 19, 2017 Report Share Posted April 19, 2017 Past Papers =))) I use revisionvillage.com as they have videos to the questions which I need! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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