Topics that may be coming out in O'Level 2016 Additional Maths Paper 2

After looking through the O'level 2016 Additional Maths Paper 1 which students took today, I have only 1 comment: either you love the paper or you hate the paper. What a paper!

With more than 50% of marks allocated to topics on Trigonometry, Differentiation and Integration, you either do very well for this paper (if you enjoy doing these topics all along) or you do very badly for it (if you haven't straighten out the confusing concepts these topics carry).

Not to say, some topics actually came out twice! Example: Qn 3b and Qn 11b : if you can't understand the concepts of amplitude, period and axis of curve, and only know how to draw the graph, you probably will not be able to do both questions. Another killer question which came out twice is the reverse process of differentiation and integration: Qn 10 ask you to differentiate and then integrate back, and on the other hand, Qn 12 gives you the integral and hints you to differentiate to get back f(x). I can only say this is a rather "unfair" paper. If students are not familiar these topics, they will be "penalized" twice.

Nevertheless, if you have been feeling demotivated by Paper 1, don't lose hope! There is still Paper 2, hopefully it will be simpler. Practise harder, and you can still gain back some marks.

The topics that have not been tested are: 

1. Binomial Theorem
2. Indices
3. Logarithms
4. Quadratic Inequality
5. Sum of roots/Product of roots
6. Linear Graph (plotting and non-plotting)
7. Circles (coordinate geometry)
8. Geomtrical Proofs
9. Polynomial (Cubic equation, factor theorem, remainder theorem, division algorithmn)
10. R-formula
11. Trigo equations, quadrants TOA CAH SOH, addition formula, double angle formula)
12. Kinematics (especially differentiation and integration of exponential functions)
13. Integration (Area under curve, especially differentiation and integration of exponential functions and definite integrals)
14. Rate of change (Usage of chain rule)
15. Increasing/Decreasing functions

Best of Luck!

Cheers,
Tutor Clarice