Topic Test

Summer 2022
Pearson Edexcel GCE Mathematics (9MA0)
Paper 1 and Paper 2
Topic 7: Differentiation

Contents
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Revise Revision Guide content coverage ........................... 4
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Mark Scheme ....................................................................... 60
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General guidance to Topic Tests
Context
• Topic Tests have come from past papers both published (those materials available publicly)
and unpublished (those currently under padlock to our centres) presented in a different format
to allow teachers to adapt them for use with candidates.

Purpose
• The purpose of this resource is to provide qualification-specific sets/groups of questions
covering the knowledge, skills and understanding relevant to this Pearson qualification.
• This document should be used in conjunction with the advance information for the subject as
well as general marking guidance for the qualification (available in published mark schemes).

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Revise Revision Guide content coverage
The questions in this topic test have been taken from past papers, and have been selected as they cover the topic(s)
most closely aligned to the A level advance information for summer 2022:

- Topic 7: Differentiation
o Formal proof Differentiation: stationary points, minima. Radian measure
o Differentiation; roots of equations
o Differentiation from first principles
o Find maximum and minimum points; Newton- Raphson method
o Differentiation of curves defined parametrically

The focus of content in this topic test can be found in the Revise Pearson Edexcel A level Mathematics Revision
Guide. Free access to this Revise Guide is available for front of class use, to support your students’ revision.

Contents Revise Guide Level

page reference
Pure Mathematics 1-111 A level
Statistics 112-147 A level
Mechanics 148-181 A level

Content on other pages may also be useful, including for synoptic questions which bring together learning from
across the specification.

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