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Hardest maths A-level exam questions in the last six years

Hardest maths A-level exam questions in the last six years

By MARK DUELL, SENIOR REPORTER

Published: | Updated:

From trigonometry to calculus and vectors to geometry, few students take A-level mathematics thinking it’s going to be an easy subject.

But for Daily Mail readers who know their sequences from their logarithms, they might enjoy a look at these past paper questions to see how they fare.

Entries for A-level maths exceeded 100,000 last summer – the first time the milestone was reached, as the subject remained the most popular choice.

Access to university courses, the subject’s worth in the job market and higher earnings potential were all cited as reasons for its growing popularity.

Boys were almost twice as likely to take the subject than girls and there was an 11 per cent rise in entries in 2024 compared to 2023, according to exam data.

While not in the top ten most popular subjects, further maths saw a surge in entries – up 20 per cent, the biggest percentage increase of any subject last year.

Here’s your chance to have a go at some of the toughest A-level maths questions in papers from the past six years from exam boards AQA, Edexcel and OCR:

QUESTIONS 

AQA Mathematics Paper 2 2024 Question 10:

Edexcel Statistics Paper 31 2023 Question 4:

OCR Pure Mathematics 2022 Question 12:

AQA Mathematics Paper 1 2021 Question 11:

OCR Pure Mathematics 2020 Question 10: 

Edexcel Pure Mathematics 2 Paper 2 2019 Question 14: 

MARK SCHEMES 

AQA Mathematics Paper 2 2024 Question 10:

Edexcel Statistics Paper 31 2023 Question 4:

OCR Pure Mathematics 2022 Question 12: 

AQA Mathematics Paper 1 2021 Question 11:

OCR Pure Mathematics 2020 Question 10:

Edexcel Pure Mathematics 2 Paper 2 2019 Question 14: 

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