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Plain answers to the questions families ask about IB Math AA SL in the final year: grades that will not move, tutors, mocks, predicted grades and revision.
For parents ·
Your child's IB Math grade is not moving. Here is what is usually wrong.
A tutor for months and the IB Math AA SL grade is still a 4? Three causes come up again and again, and a parent can tell which one it is without knowing any maths.
For parents ·
IB mocks, predicted grades and the university offer, in the order they actually happen
When IB predicted grades are set, what the January mocks decide, when the May 2027 Math AA papers are, and what a parent can still influence at each point.
For parents ·
What an IB Math tutor costs, and when a tutor is the wrong tool
Hourly rates for IB Math tutors, what a term of tutoring really adds up to, the questions that make a tutor worth the money, and the situations where no tutor will move the grade.
For parents ·
From a 4 to a 6 in IB Math AA SL: what has to change, in marks
A 4 to a 6 in IB Math AA SL is about thirty marks out of a hundred. Where those marks come from on Paper 1 and Paper 2, in what order to go after them, and how long it takes.
For parents ·
IB Math AA SL, explained for parents: the papers, the marks, and what a 4 actually means
What IB Math Analysis and Approaches SL is, how Paper 1, Paper 2 and the IA make the grade, what the grade boundaries were in May 2025, and how to read a maths report you cannot check yourself.
For students ·
Where the marks actually go in IB Math AA SL: twelve common mistakes
The twelve ways IB Math AA SL students lose marks they could have had, with the line where each one happens, and a ten-minute method for finding your own pattern from one marked paper.
For students ·
How to revise IB Math AA SL for the mocks: an eight-week plan a student can actually follow
A week-by-week revision plan for IB Math AA SL mocks, in the order the syllabus is built, with the hours, the papers, the mistake log, and where a second pair of eyes helps.
For parents ·
Drop from HL to SL, switch from AA to AI, or retake? The IB Math decisions in the final year
When dropping IB Math AA HL to SL is the right call, why switching AA to AI in the final year rarely works, what the university offer actually requires, and how a November retake works.