Which courses does AscentIQ cover?

IB Mathematics: Analysis and Approaches SL, Applications and Interpretation SL, and Applications and Interpretation HL — exercises generated for each course's syllabus and marked against the IB mark scheme. Analysis and Approaches HL isn't available yet; it's on our roadmap. We add courses one at a time rather than several superficially.

How does the marking actually work?

Your work is transcribed, then evaluated against the exercise's mark scheme one mark at a time. Each Method, Answer, and Reasoning mark is awarded or withheld with a written reason. Follow-through is applied, so an early error doesn't automatically cost you the marks that depend on it.

Can the AI get the maths wrong?

The maths isn't generated by AI. Every number in every exercise is computed deterministically before the AI is involved — the AI only writes the wording around values it's been given, and is blocked from producing numbers of its own.

Do I have to write by hand?

You don't have to, but the whiteboard is where the marking is worth most. Writing out formula, substitution, and answer lets each method mark be awarded or withheld on its own. Typing takes final answers only — quicker, but there's no working to mark, and nothing to review afterwards.

What do I need to use it?

A tablet with a stylus is the best experience — the whiteboard is built for it. A laptop or desktop works fully too. We wouldn't recommend a phone: the whiteboard needs more room than a phone screen gives it.

Seven days of full access — every chapter of your course, unlimited generated exercises, and per-mark feedback on the work you write out. No card required to start.

What happens when the trial ends?

If you'd like to continue afterwards, leave your details at ascentiq.io/continue or write to renzo@ascentiq.io, and you'll hear back by email — including about the asynchronous tutoring we're building on top of your results.

What is the asynchronous tutoring?

It's a tutoring method built on your results in the exercise mode — where your marks are lost, which topics are slipping, what to work on next — followed up at your own pace, without having to coordinate a live session. It's still in development, so there's no fixed format yet. If you'd like to hear how it will work, write to renzo@ascentiq.io.

Is a calculator allowed in IB Math AI HL?

Yes. A graphic display calculator is allowed on all three papers. Where a question asks for an exact value or a stated form, the answer is exact and the calculator only checks it.

How is IB Math AI HL assessed?

Three written papers and an internal assessment. Papers 1 and 2 are 2 hours and 110 marks each, worth 30% of the grade each; Paper 3 is an hour and 55 marks, worth 20%; the mathematical exploration is worth the remaining 20%.

What is Paper 3 in IB Math AI HL?

The third paper, taken only by HL students: an hour of extended problem-solving questions that follow one situation through a sequence of linked parts, often in a context you have not seen before. AscentIQ has eight Paper 3 practice families.

Does AscentIQ cover all of AI HL?

Nearly all of it: exercises for the large majority of the 78 sections, Paper 2-style long questions and Paper 3 practice. A few sections do not have a dedicated exercise yet, and AA HL is not covered.

IB Mathematics: Applications and Interpretation HL

IB Math AI HL, topic by topic

Applications and Interpretation HL is the IB's technology-first mathematics course at higher level: all of AI SL, plus complex numbers, matrices, vectors, graph theory, further statistics and differential equations. This page maps the course — how it is assessed and what each topic contains — and links to a guide for every topic showing how its marks are awarded.

The course at a glance

The structure of the course as the IB publishes it.

Written papers

Paper 1, Paper 2 and Paper 3

Papers 1 and 2 are 2 hours, 110 marks and 30% each. Paper 3 is an hour of extended problem-solving, 55 marks and 20%. Technology is allowed on all three.

Internal assessment

Mathematical exploration

A piece of independent mathematical writing, worth 20% of the grade.

Syllabus

5 topics · 78 sections

The 39 sections of AI SL (numbered SL) plus 39 HL-only sections (numbered AHL).

Teaching time

240 hours

As recommended by the IB for a higher-level course, including the toolkit and the exploration.

The five topics

Each topic has its own guide: the sections it covers, how they are examined, a marked example and the mistakes that cost marks.

How AI HL differs from AI SL

HL is not a different course; it is the same course taken further, with an extra paper. These are the differences that change what you practise.

AI HL contains every AI SL section. They are examined at HL too, usually inside longer and more connected questions.
HL adds 39 sections of its own: complex numbers, matrices and eigenvalues, vectors in three dimensions, graph theory, further statistics and differential equations.
HL students sit Paper 3, an hour of extended problem-solving that follows one situation through a sequence of linked parts. SL students do not.
HL calculus goes beyond polynomials — chain, product and quotient rules, substitution and volumes of revolution. SL calculus stays with polynomials and the trapezoidal rule.
Both courses are technology-first, with a calculator on every paper.

See the Math AI SL topic guides →

How AscentIQ covers AI HL

Every exercise is generated fresh, marked mark by mark against the IB scheme, with a reason for each M1, A1 and R1. For AI HL that comes with some course-specific behaviour.

157 exam archetypes: everything in AI SL, plus 64 written for the HL-only sections.
Paper 3 practice: eight extended-investigation families, each following one situation through many linked parts.
Paper 2 long questions: twelve families that mix SL and HL sections the way the extended questions do.
Answers in the forms a mark scheme accepts — a matrix, a complex number, a vector or a line can each be written in more than one correct way.
Graph-theory questions have exactly one right answer: the engine rejects any graph where two correct runs of an algorithm could differ.
Radians from AHL 3.7, with the unit stated, and answers kept to the figures asked for — a three-significant-figure answer is written with all its figures, 6.40 and not 6.4.
Honest limits: a few sections — including SL 2.3 (sketching graphs), AHL 1.10 (rational exponents) and AHL 3.8 (the unit circle and identities) — do not have a dedicated exercise yet, and a question whose whole answer is a sketch is asked through values instead.

Questions

Questions about IB Math AI HL

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