For IB Maths and Physics students
Download every IB Maths and Physics past paper
Access the IB Diploma past papers and receive one exam question a day.
This is my newsletter, The Daily 7. Once you subscribe and confirm, the first email brings you the link to download every IB Maths and Physics past paper, sorted by subject and session. Then, every weekday at 7:00 your time, one short email that shows you how to use them.
I am Pietro Meloni, PhD in Physics. I tutor IB Maths and Physics one to one, for students in international schools from Singapore to Milan.
Why past papers matter
Nothing prepares you for an IB exam like the IB exams that came before it. They are the closest thing to the real paper you will sit, written by the same people, marked with the same rules.
You learn the format before it can surprise you.
Structure, timing, the way questions are worded, the command terms. None of it should be new on exam day.
You see what examiners ask again and again.
The same ideas and the same traps come back session after session, dressed differently.
You train your timing.
Knowing the mathematics is not enough if the paper ends with two questions untouched.
The risk of practising them alone
Past papers without guidance can do as much harm as good. What I see every year in students who practise on their own:
- You mark yourself against the final answer and miss that the method marks were never on the page.
- You lose marks to three significant figures instead of an exact value, to a missing unit, to a graph without a scale, and never notice.
- You do paper after paper and repeat the same mistake faster each time.
The marks are lost in places students do not look. You need someone to point at them.
That is why The Daily 7 exists
One email a day, Monday to Friday. Under two minutes to read, around ten to do the question. It takes the past papers you download and shows you, one question at a time, where the marks are won and lost.
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Today's question
One question from a real paper, with a precise reference such as "May 2023, AA HL, Paper 1, TZ1, Q6. Give it 8 minutes."
- 2
Yesterday's answer
The one step that decided the marks, and the mistake most candidates made.
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What examiners saw
One line from the subject reports on that topic, with the year.
For parents there is a separate letter on Sundays: deadlines, what to ask your child, one number explained in plain words.
Questions
- How do I get the past papers?
- Fill in the form and press the button in the confirmation email I send you. The welcome email that follows has the link to the full archive, sorted by subject and session.
- How often will you write?
- Students: every weekday, Monday to Friday, at 7:00 in your time zone. Parents: one letter every Sunday. After twenty emails I ask whether you want to keep the daily or switch to a weekly summary.
- Is it free?
- Yes. The archive link, the daily questions and the solutions cost nothing.
- Can I stop?
- Every email has an unsubscribe link at the bottom. One click and you are out, no questions.
- Which courses?
- Maths Analysis and Approaches, Maths Applications and Interpretation and Physics, SL and HL. You choose up to two.
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