QCAA Mathematical Methods Syllabus

The QCAA Mathematical Methods Paper 1 exam is 95 minutes total — 90 minutes of writing time plus 5 minutes of reading (perusal) time.

No, a calculator is not allowed in the QCAA Mathematical Methods Paper 1 exam.

The QCAA Mathematical Methods Paper 2 exam is 95 minutes total — 90 minutes of writing time plus 5 minutes of reading (perusal) time.

Yes, a calculator is allowed in the QCAA Mathematical Methods Paper 2 exam.

The QCAA Mathematical Methods syllabus has 2 units and 10 topics. The units are Further calculus and introduction to statistics and Further calculus, trigonometry and statistics, covering topics such as Differentiation of exponential and logarithmic functions, Differentiation of trigonometric functions and differentiation rules, Further applications of differentiation, Introduction to integration, Discrete random variables, Further integration, Trigonometry, Continuous random variables and the normal distribution, Sampling and proportions, Interval estimates for proportions.

Further calculus and introduction to statistics has the most QCAA past paper questions on AusGrader with 291 questions, making it the most frequently tested unit in QCAA Mathematical Methods.