9. Algebra

Questions related to algebra appear frequently in the exam and most of them are based on knowledge built from prior years. Check out the overview section for relevant importance of this section compared to other topics in this course. In 2019 exam, two questions appeared from this topic making up 5 marks (2019Q11, 2019Q28). This section covers the following parts of the syllabus:

– MS-A1 Formulae and Equations

Most questions especially appearing in part 1 of the exam are straight-forward. Little bit of complexities can appear in part 2 of the exam where there are scenario-based questions around standard dosage or drinks formulae.

The infographic below shows all the past exam questions from 2010 to 2019 relevant to this topic sorted by difficulty level and further broken down into sub-topics. This will form the foundation of our study as we would like you to focus first on the easy questions and quickly develop skills to get those easy marks and then challenge yourself with the harder ones.

There are two sub-sections you need to focus:

– 9.1 Basics 

– 9.2 Special Formulae