Review of the CSEC Maths P2 May 2026 (Terry David)

Added: 2026-05-14

[00:00:01]Hi guys, this is Terry here. So the CC maths paper 2 exam for May 2026 was today. Um the paper is over. Uh I posted the solutions on my CC maths uh YouTube channel for you guys to look at. Um only look at it if you are interested in the solution. Some students don't like to discuss the paper and that's fine.

[00:00:23]Overall the paper was an okay paper. Um I do feel that the feel of the paper felt different just like the January 2026 paper felt different from previous years. This paper also felt a bit different in terms of the structure of the exam. With respect to the content, all of the content is based on the syllabus. So there's nothing there that is not on the syllabus. Okay. Um with respect to let's say um the first question, first question was pretty straightforward. uh normal uh significant figure calculation. Um we had uh ratios. TX seems to like to bring ratios. Almost every exam people they bring a question on ratios. Um we had uh percentage decrease. Um some people may have had a little challenge with the second part of that question. Um question two which is normally algebra.

[00:01:12]Um this question was the first part was relatively simple. Um basically we had a substitution problem. No issues there.

[00:01:21]We had a change of subject of the formula. That's not a problem. The part B of the question may have given students a bit of a challenge and that is a proof to prove a quadratic equation. So that may have caused a little issue with some but you know what the answer was that you were working towards. Um also the second part of that same question we had to use the quadratic formula to work out the value for x. So once you knew how to use the formula that should not have been an issue. The third question was based on geometry and trigonometry. Nothing too difficult in that question. So they had a construction question. You had to construct a trapezium. And in this case here, this was a relatively straightforward construction. Uh question four. So those of you who attended my actual um my actual crash course, all right, the one that I normally have as well as the free one that I gave. Some of these questions that I would have done in both sessions.

[00:02:16]Some of these questions were very similar to what came in the exam. So question four, things like midpoint, equation of perpendicular, bis sector, not a problem. What may have given students a bit of a challenge would have been the last part of that question where we had to prove that these three points are colinear. Normally we see that the vectors question. So the concept is very similar here. All we needed to do was to prove that the two gradients will be the same and we have a common point there. That's all we need to do for this particular question. Uh question five was a little different as well. This question was uh based on mean in a table but what they did they gave you the mean and they asked you to find the value of one of the frequencies in the table. So the concept we know the concept it's just the question appeared a little different. Um the next part was on um cumulative frequency and this is something that they love to bring as well. So we expected to get a cumulative frequency and we had to work backwards in order to find frequency as well. So this one was expected. Um question six here was a bit different because normally in question six we get measurement and that could be things like area, volume, those kinds of things. But in this question here it was all about a ratio and we had to basically um work several things regarding this ratio. So this question itself was a bit different. Um question seven as well was also different. So normally we'll get a diagram and we have to figure out what's the next pattern.

[00:03:42]We sequence what they did. They gave us a table and we had to actually figure out what's happening here. Now overall this question seven wasn't too bad.

[00:03:51]It just it was just a bit different. It was just a bit different. Um question eight. Well I expected to get a question on completing the square. I told my class um that they were going to get that. So it came hopefully they managed to answer the question. Uh we also had to draw a quadratic that had a maximum point. So the quadratic was rather simple to draw. Um the only thing they ask us was to actually solve an equation. So we just had to draw a horizontal line in order to find the points of intersection.

[00:04:20]Uh what else do we have here? Question nine. Well question N was based on transformations. The entire question was question n was based on transformations.

[00:04:28]It was a simple transformation that had all four transformations in it. Rotation um translation. We had to do a reflection and we also had to do uh uh something else an enlargement. We had to do an enlargement. Okay. Um the only thing that may have given students a bit of a challenge would have been doing the reflection in the line y is equal to minus x. But if they had studied how to do a reflection, it should not have been an issue.

[00:04:55]And the next part of that question was on well it was a minor part three based on uh bearings and the signing. So this was a very easy question involving bearings. So this was this was good.

[00:05:07]Okay. Sometimes bearing questions can be a bit difficult. And question 10. Well question 10 was a standard vector question. Nothing was really complicated in that vector question. Uh the matrix question though um they focus more on using a matrix for transformation and this one here students had to remember the matrix for reflection in the x-axis but in my case when I'm normally doing or teaching this I generally show my students how to come up with this without having to learn it all okay and other than that that was the paper so the paper itself the content it fit well with the syllabus there was nothing outside of the syllabus in the paper Overall, I found it to be a good paper.

[00:05:49]The paper felt different, but the paper in itself was a good paper. So, paper two is finished. Focus on paper one if you want to secure that grade one or you just want to pass maths. Focus on that paper one, guys.