Edexcel IAL · Mathematics · WMA11 · Algebra and functions
Topic Questions: 1.11 Graphs of functions; sketching curves defined by simple equations. Geometrical interpretation of algebraic solution of equations. Use of intersection points of graphs of functions to solve equations. — WMA11 Algebra and functions
78 WMA11 Algebra and functions topic questions are tagged to this syllabus point across 24 papers (2019–2026). Only the parts whose knowledge graph matches this syllabus statement are counted, and the table shows which parts of each question are involved.
Core finding
This Algebra and functions syllabus point appears in 24 WMA11 papers across 2019–2026, contributing 78 topic questions and 200 marks. The most recent appearance is WMA11/01 January 2026. That equals 21.4% of the 365 topic questions and 18.8% of the 1,063 marks tagged to Algebra and functions. Only parts tagged to this subtopic are counted, so a four-part question can contribute one item and one part's marks. The table lists every matching question, its tagged parts and marks, with a link back to the paper page. Sessions are newest first, so the statement can be traced back through the full paper history.
Topic questions by session
Newest sessions first. Parts and marks count only the parts tagged to this subtopic; “x of y parts” shows how much of the question is tagged elsewhere. Select the paper cell to open the matching question on the paper page, or use Go to Practice Hub to answer that exact question in the Interactive Practice Hub.
| Paper | Question | Type | Parts | Marks | Difficulty | Practice |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WMA11/01January 2026 · Edexcel IAL | Q6 Cubic Graphs, Transformations and Intersections |
FRQ | 2 of 3 parts ((b), (c)) | 7 of 9 on the paper |
Easy | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/01January 2026 · Edexcel IAL | Q9 Trigonometric Graphs and Number of Solutions |
FRQ | 2 of 3 parts ((b), (c)) | 7 of 9 on the paper |
Easy | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/02January 2026 · Edexcel IAL | Q5 Curve Sketching and Transformations - Edexcel IAL P1 Jan 2026 Q5 |
FRQ | 1 of 4 parts ((c)) | 2 of 7 on the paper |
Easy | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/02January 2026 · Edexcel IAL | Q10 Cubic Curves and Intersections - Edexcel IAL P1 Jan 2026 Q10 |
FRQ | 1 of 2 parts ((a)) | 4 of 8 on the paper |
Medium | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/01October 2025 · Edexcel IAL | Q6 Sketching Rational Function and Discriminant |
FRQ | 1 of 2 parts ((a)) | 4 of 9 on the paper |
Medium | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/02October 2025 · Edexcel IAL | Q8 Intersection of Graphs and Curve Sketching - Edexcel IAL P1 October 2025 Q8 |
FRQ | 1 of 2 parts ((a)) | 6 of 8 on the paper |
Medium | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/02October 2025 · Edexcel IAL | Q10 Polynomial Graphs and Curve Intersections - Edexcel IAL P1 October 2025 Q10 |
FRQ | 2 of 3 parts ((a), (b)) | 7 of 12 on the paper |
Medium | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/01June 2025 · Edexcel IAL | Q7 Cubic Curve and Intersecting Graphs - Edexcel P1 2025 Jun Q7 |
FRQ | 3 parts ((a), (b), (c)) | 10 | Medium | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/01June 2025 · Edexcel IAL | Q9 Graph Transformations and Exact Intersection - Edexcel P1 2025 Jun Q9 |
FRQ | 1 of 4 parts ((b)(i)) | 3 of 10 on the paper |
Easy | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/02June 2025 · Edexcel IAL | Q1 Curve Transformations and Asymptotes - Edexcel P1 Summer 2025 Q1 |
FRQ | 1 of 4 parts ((b)) | 2 of 5 on the paper |
Easy | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/02June 2025 · Edexcel IAL | Q7 Curve Sketching and Discriminant - Edexcel P1 Summer 2025 Q7 |
FRQ | 1 of 3 parts ((a)) | 3 of 9 on the paper |
Medium | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/01January 2025 · Edexcel IAL | Q7 Reciprocal Graphs and Inequalities - Edexcel IAL P1 January 2025 Q7 |
FRQ | 1 of 2 parts ((a)) | 3 of 8 on the paper |
Easy | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/01January 2025 · Edexcel IAL | Q9 Quadratics and Curves - Edexcel IAL P1 January 2025 Q9 |
FRQ | 1 of 6 parts ((c)(i)) | 1 of 13 on the paper |
Easy | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/01October 2024 · Edexcel IAL | Q4 Intersection of Curves - Edexcel IAL P1 Oct 2024 Q4 |
FRQ | 3 parts ((a), (b), (c)) | 10 | Medium | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/01October 2024 · Edexcel IAL | Q6 Curve Sketching and Discriminant - Edexcel IAL P1 Oct 2024 Q6 |
FRQ | 2 of 3 parts ((a), (b)(i)) | 7 of 9 on the paper |
Medium | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/01October 2024 · Edexcel IAL | Q7 Trigonometric Curves and Solutions - Edexcel IAL P1 Oct 2024 Q7 |
FRQ | 1 of 5 parts ((c)) | 2 of 8 on the paper |
Easy | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/01June 2024 · Edexcel IAL | Q8 Cubic Curves and Rational Functions - Edexcel IAL P1 2024 Jun Q8 |
FRQ | 2 of 3 parts ((a), (b)) | 4 of 7 on the paper |
Easy | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/02June 2024 · Edexcel IAL | Q4 Coordinate Geometry: Curve and Line Intersection - Edexcel IAL P1 May 2024 Q4 |
FRQ | 1 of 2 parts ((a)) | 2 of 5 on the paper |
Easy | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/02June 2024 · Edexcel IAL | Q8 Integration and Graph Transformations - Edexcel IAL P1 May 2024 Q8 |
FRQ | 1 of 3 parts ((c)) | 4 of 11 on the paper |
Easy | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/02June 2024 · Edexcel IAL | Q9 Trigonometry: Graphs and Asymptotes - Edexcel IAL P1 May 2024 Q9 |
FRQ | 2 of 5 parts ((a)(i), (a)(iii)) | 2 of 8 on the paper |
Medium | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/01January 2024 · Edexcel IAL | Q7 Curve Sketching and Discriminant - Edexcel IAL P1 Jan 2024 Q7 |
FRQ | 2 parts ((a), (b)) | 9 | Easy | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/01January 2024 · Edexcel IAL | Q9 Quadratic Properties and Intersection with Cubic - Edexcel IAL P1 Jan 2024 Q9 |
FRQ | 1 of 3 parts ((a)) | 2 of 10 on the paper |
Medium | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/01October 2023 · Edexcel IAL | Q4 Curve Sketching and Equations - Edexcel IAL P1 October 2023 Q4 |
FRQ | 3 of 4 parts ((a), (c), (d)) | 5 of 7 on the paper |
Easy | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/01June 2023 · Edexcel IAL | Q3 Completing the Square and Curve Sketching - Edexcel IAL P1 June 2023 Q3 |
FRQ | 1 of 2 parts ((b)) | 3 of 6 on the paper |
Easy | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/01June 2023 · Edexcel IAL | Q10 Quadratic Curve and Intersecting Lines - Edexcel IAL P1 June 2023 Q10 |
FRQ | 1 of 5 parts ((d)) | 2 of 10 on the paper |
Medium | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/01January 2023 · Edexcel IAL | Q7 Curve Sketching and Transformations - Edexcel IAL P1 Jan 2023 Q7 |
FRQ | 2 of 4 parts ((a), (c)) | 4 of 10 on the paper |
Easy | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/01January 2023 · Edexcel IAL | Q9 Periodicity and Root Counting of Tan x - Edexcel IAL P1 Jan 2023 Q9 |
FRQ | 3 of 4 parts ((b)(i), (b)(ii), (b)(iii)) | 3 of 4 on the paper |
Easy | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/01January 2023 · Edexcel IAL | Q10 Polynomial Expansion and Tangent Intersection - Edexcel IAL P1 Jan 2023 Q10 |
FRQ | 1 of 3 parts ((a)) | 2 of 10 on the paper |
Easy | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/01October 2022 · Edexcel IAL | Q6 Curve Sketching and Number of Roots - Edexcel IAL P1 Oct 2022 Q6 |
FRQ | 3 parts ((a)(i), (a)(ii), (b)) | 6 | Medium | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/01January 2022 · Edexcel IAL | Q2 Quadratics - Edexcel IAL Pure Mathematics P1 January 2022 Q2 |
FRQ | 1 of 3 parts ((b)) | 2 of 6 on the paper |
Easy | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/01January 2022 · Edexcel IAL | Q7 Polynomials and Curve Sketching - Edexcel IAL Pure Mathematics P1 January 2022 Q7 |
FRQ | 1 of 4 parts ((b)) | 2 of 11 on the paper |
Medium | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/01January 2022 · Edexcel IAL | Q10 Curve Sketching and Equations - Edexcel IAL Pure Mathematics P1 January 2022 Q10 |
FRQ | 1 of 2 parts ((a)) | 4 of 9 on the paper |
Medium | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/01October 2021 · Edexcel IAL | Q4 Trigonometric Graphs and Equations - Edexcel P1 October 2021 Q4 |
FRQ | 1 of 2 parts ((b)) | 2 of 5 on the paper |
Easy | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/01October 2021 · Edexcel IAL | Q6 Curve Sketching and Tangents - Edexcel P1 October 2021 Q6 |
FRQ | 1 of 3 parts ((a)) | 3 of 10 on the paper |
Easy | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/01June 2021 · Edexcel IAL | Q5 Quadratics in Modelling and Inequalities - Edexcel IAL P1 June 2021 Q5 |
FRQ | 1 of 4 parts ((a)) | 2 of 8 on the paper |
Easy | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/01June 2021 · Edexcel IAL | Q8 Completing the Square and Cubic Intersections - Edexcel IAL P1 June 2021 Q8 |
FRQ | 1 of 3 parts ((c)) | 5 of 9 on the paper |
Easy | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/01June 2021 · Edexcel IAL | Q9 Trigonometric Graphs and Curve Sketching - Edexcel IAL P1 June 2021 Q9 |
FRQ | 4 of 5 parts ((b)(i), (b)(ii), (c)(i), (c)(ii)) | 6 of 7 on the paper |
Medium | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/01January 2021 · Edexcel IAL | Q6 Reciprocal Graphs, Asymptotes & Line Intersections - Edexcel IAL P1 Jan 2021 Q6 |
FRQ | 2 of 3 parts ((a), (b)) | 5 of 10 on the paper |
Easy | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/01January 2021 · Edexcel IAL | Q8 Cubic Graph Properties & Line Segments - Edexcel IAL P1 Jan 2021 Q8 |
FRQ | 1 of 3 parts ((c)) | 5 of 9 on the paper |
Easy | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/01October 2020 · Edexcel IAL | Q5 Curve Transformations and Trigonometry - Edexcel IAL P1 October 2020 Q5 |
FRQ | 2 of 4 parts ((i)(a), (i)(b)) | 6 of 9 on the paper |
Easy | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/01October 2020 · Edexcel IAL | Q7 Rational Curve and Linear Intersection - Edexcel IAL P1 October 2020 Q7 |
FRQ | 2 of 3 parts ((a), (b)) | 7 of 11 on the paper |
Medium | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/01January 2020 · Edexcel IAL | Q10 Curve Sketching and Function Transformations - Edexcel IAL P1 Jan 2020 Q10 |
FRQ | 1 of 3 parts ((a)) | 3 of 8 on the paper |
Medium | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/01October 2019 · Edexcel IAL | Q6 Hyperbolic Curve Sketching and Tangent Intersections - Edexcel IAL P1 Oct 2019 Q6 |
FRQ | 1 of 2 parts ((a)) | 3 of 8 on the paper |
Medium | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/01October 2019 · Edexcel IAL | Q10 Cubic Polynomial and Curve Translation - Edexcel IAL P1 Oct 2019 Q10 |
FRQ | 3 of 6 parts ((a), (c)(i), (d)(ii)) | 4 of 10 on the paper |
Easy | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/01June 2019 · Edexcel IAL | Q9 Trigonometric Graphs and Equations - Edexcel IAL P1 June 2019 Q9 |
FRQ | 1 of 3 parts ((c)) | 3 of 7 on the paper |
Easy | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/01June 2019 · Edexcel IAL | Q10 Curve Graph Analysis and Tangents - Edexcel IAL P1 June 2019 Q10 |
FRQ | 1 of 4 parts ((a)) | 1 of 10 on the paper |
Medium | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/01January 2019 · Edexcel IAL | Q5 Trigonometric Graphs and Equations - Edexcel IAL P1 Jan 2019 Q5 |
FRQ | 2 of 4 parts ((c)(i), (c)(ii)) | 2 of 6 on the paper |
Easy | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/01January 2019 · Edexcel IAL | Q8 Curve Transformations - Edexcel IAL P1 Jan 2019 Q8 |
FRQ | 1 of 5 parts ((c)) | 2 of 6 on the paper |
Easy | Go to Practice Hub |
| WMA11/01January 2019 · Edexcel IAL | Q11 Curve Sketching and Intersections - Edexcel IAL P1 Jan 2019 Q11 |
FRQ | 3 of 4 parts ((a)(i), (a)(ii), (b)) | 7 of 12 on the paper |
Easy | Go to Practice Hub |
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Topic question rules and edge cases
- How many topic questions cover this syllabus point?
- 49 question stems cover this subtopic across 24 papers, but only 78 tagged parts and 200 marks belong to it. Other parts of the same questions are assessed under different statements and are excluded from this page.
- Which papers include this subtopic?
- The table lists every matching session from 2019–2026. Each row links to the question anchor on the paper page, where the full paper context and practice entry point are available.
- Why can one question appear under several subtopics?
- The parts of one question can assess different syllabus statements. Each part is counted under its own subtopics, so the same question stem can appear on several subtopic pages while each page lists only the parts and marks tagged to that statement.
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