Assessment overview
| Component |
Marks |
Duration |
Weighting |
Pure mathematics and mechanics (01)
|
100 |
2 hours |
36.4% |
Component 01 assesses content from areas 1 and 2.
Section A – shorter questions with minimal reading and interpretation.
Section B – longer questions and more problem solving. |
Pure mathematics and statistics (02)
|
100 |
2 hours |
36.4% |
Component 02 assesses content from areas 1 and 3.
Section A – shorter questions with minimal reading and interpretation.
Section B – longer questions and more problem solving.
Some questions will be set on the pre-release data set. These questions should give a material advantage to students who have studied, and are familiar with, the prescribed large data set. |
Pure mathematics and comprehension (03)
|
75 |
2 hours |
27.3% |
Component 03 assesses content from area 1 (areas 2 and 3 are assumed knowledge).
Section A – 60 marks on the pure core content.
Section B – 15 marks on a previously unseen comprehension passage based on the pure mathematics content of the specification. |
Percentages in the table above are rounded to 1 decimal place.
Students must take all components and explore the content in detail to be awarded the OCR A Level in Mathematics B (MEI).
Content overview
These overarching themes should be applied, along with associated mathematical thinking and understanding, across the whole of the detailed content in the specification:
- Mathematical argument, language and proof
- Mathematical problem solving
- Mathematical modelling.
Subject content
Area 1: Pure mathematics
- Proof
- Algebra
- Functions
- Graphs
- Coordinate geometry
- Sequences and series
- Trigonometry
- Exponentials and logarithms
- Calculus
- Numerical methods
- Vectors
Area 2: Mechanics
- Models and quantities
- Kinematics in one dimension
- Kinematics in two dimensions
- Projectiles
- Forces
- Newton's laws of motion
- Rigid bodies
Area 3: Statistics
- Statistical sampling
- Data presentation and interpretation
- Probability
- Probability distributions
- Statistical hypothesis testing