Performance band descriptions for Mathematics Advanced

Band 6

A student who performs at this level in the exam typically:

• demonstrates extensive knowledge and skills appropriate to the course.
• demonstrates sophisticated multi-step reasoning and justification.
• integrates and applies ideas from across the course to successfully solve problems.
• demonstrates modelling and problem-solving skills in a wide range of familiar and unfamiliar contexts.
• communicates effectively using appropriate mathematical language, notation, diagrams and graphs.

Band 5

A student who performs at this level in the exam typically:

• demonstrates thorough knowledge and skills appropriate to the course.
• demonstrates multi-step logical reasoning and justification.
• combines ideas from across the course to solve problems.
• demonstrates a range of modelling and problem-solving skills.
• communicates appropriately using mathematical language, notation, diagrams and graphs.

Band 4

A student who performs at this level in the exam typically:

• demonstrates sound knowledge and skills appropriate to the course.
• uses logical reasoning and justifies answers.
• uses appropriate approaches to solve problems.
• communicates using mathematical language, notation, diagrams and graphs.

Band 3

A student who performs at this level in the exam typically:

• demonstrates basic knowledge and skills appropriate to the course.
• applies reasoning in familiar contexts.
• solves simple problems.
• uses mathematical language, notation, diagrams and graphs.

Band 2

A student who performs at this level in the exam typically:

• demonstrates limited knowledge and skills appropriate to the course.
• solves simple familiar problems with limited accuracy.
• uses some mathematical language, notation, diagrams and graphs.

Band 1