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IB Maths AA HL  ·  Sep–Dec 2026

Ten weeks on the strand that decides your grade.

Vectors, start to finish — AHL 3.12 to 3.16 — taught live for Ridley College students, and sequenced from the way the IB has actually examined this strand since 2020.

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10Live sessions
90 minutes each
3.12–3.16The complete
AHL vectors strand
37Real IB vectors questions
from 2020–2025 papers
US$380Whole programme
materials included
45Top IB score, Nov 2025
7Most common Maths grade
15+Years teaching the DP
100+IB students a year
Success stories

What last year's cohort said
on results day.

Unedited messages from Photon Academy students and parents after the November 2025 IB results were released.

“Vishal scored 42 points and a 7 for his HL subjects. Your patience, commitment, and ability to explain concepts clearly made a significant difference in his learning journey.”

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Vishal's Parent
November 2025 IB Results

“Got a 7 for IB Math AA HL with 89 marks! Thank you so much for your help over the past 2 years. I honestly think I could not have gotten a 7 with just my school teachers' help.”

RS
Rishab S.
November 2025 IB Results

“Got 93 marks and a 7 for IB Physics HL — and 45 points overall! Thank you Mr Ejaz for everything.”

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Ashley A.
November 2025 IB Results

“I got a 7 for IB Math with 89 marks! Thank you so much for all your help these past 2 years. I definitely would not have been able to achieve this without you.”

CS
Chyenne S.
November 2025 IB Results

“Got a 7 for IB Math with 86%! The structured approach and exam preparation at Photon Academy helped me achieve this.”

JS
Javier S.
November 2025 IB Results

“Got a 7, higher end! Thanks for all the help sir. The consistent practice and guidance made all the difference.”

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Akshat A.
November 2025 IB Results

These students sat the November session from Photon Academy's Singapore cohorts — Ridley College is our first partnership in Canada, so this programme is new, but the teaching behind it is not. More at ibtuition.sg/testimonials.

The lesson plan

Ten sessions, September
to December.

Tuesdays, 90 minutes, live online. The sequence is built from how the IB has examined this strand since 2020, not from a textbook's chapter order — which is why the basics get two sessions, and why the cross product is taught alongside the plane it builds a normal for.

What each session actually adds
20 basic skills on the trunk, 61 exam-question parts in the canopy. The basics land early; the question work builds on them.
Basics added Exam-question parts
Session 1: 4 exam-question partsSession 1: 4 basics81Session 2: 4 exam-question partsSession 2: 4 basics82Session 3: 4 basics43Session 4: 8 exam-question parts84Session 5: 4 exam-question partsSession 5: 2 basics65Session 6: 3 exam-question partsSession 6: 1 basics46Session 7: 8 exam-question parts87Session 8: 7 exam-question partsSession 8: 5 basics128Session 9: 14 exam-question parts149Session 10: 9 exam-question parts910
1Tue 29 SepVectors I — notation, position & displacement, vector algebra3.12P1
2Tue 6 OctVectors II — magnitude, unit vectors, parallel & collinear3.12P1
3Tue 13 OctScalar (dot) product: angle and perpendicularity3.13P1 · P2
4Tue 20 OctGeometric vector proofs (base vectors, ratio points)3.12–13P1
5Tue 27 OctVector equation of a line; Cartesian ↔ vector form3.14P1
6Tue 3 NovRelationships between lines: intersecting, parallel, skew3.14P1
7Tue 10 NovDistance with lines: closest point, minimum distance3.14P1 · P2
8Tue 17 NovVector (cross) product & the plane: area, normal, three forms3.15–16P2
9Tue 24 NovIntersections & angles: line∩plane, plane∩plane, reflections3.16P2
10Tue 1 DecApplications and whole-strand synthesisAllP1 · P2
Examiner insight

IB conventions are held throughout: British spelling, SI units, column-vector form, exact answers on Paper 1 and three significant figures on Paper 2. Command terms are taught as rules, not vocabulary — Write down means no working is required, Show that means the answer is given and must be justified in full, and Hence means the previous part must be used.

What your place includes

Four things, all of them
about vectors.

The written material is being rebuilt from scratch for this cohort — rewritten to follow the ten-session order above, so what you read at home is the same sequence you meet in class.

Notes

The full written treatment of the strand — every method derived and worked through with examples, in the order the sessions follow. Read before, revise after.

Rebuilt for this cohort

Cheatsheets

The whole strand condensed to what you actually need under exam pressure: formulae, methods and the traps, laid out so a single page answers most questions.

Rebuilt for this cohort

Tutorials

Exam-standard question sets to work between sessions, each with full worked solutions written the way an examiner wants the method shown.

Rebuilt for this cohort

Learning Studio

A continuous run through the whole strand — 20 basics, then 15 full exam questions across 61 guided parts, all reacting to your mistakes. Unlocked for the length of the programme.

Vectors module
The materials

Everything on paper, too.

The app is where you practise. This is what you read, annotate and take into the exam room in your head — built from the same question bank, so nothing contradicts anything.

The tutorial, beside its own markscheme.

128 questions in one run, in teaching order — single steps first, growing into the multi-part questions the IB actually sets, with 20 complete past-paper questions at the end. Signed in, you open the question and the markscheme side by side rather than flipping between two PDFs.

In your portal from the day you enrol.

The Learning Studio — vectors module

The whole strand,
as one tree.

The trunk is 20 basic skills — the handful of things every vectors question is built from. Secure those and the canopy opens: 15 full exam questions, each worked through with you part by part. Get one wrong and it does not simply mark it: it names the misconception, keeps the same numbers, and lets you try again.

  • 20 basics in 5 groups, then 15 exam questions across 61 guided parts
  • Every part carries a diagram drawn from your own numbers — and a panel you can drag
  • Fresh numbers every attempt, so nothing can be memorised
  • Two correct in a row, unaided, secures a basic — hints are allowed but counted
  • Unlocked for vectors from the day you enrol

Works in any browser — laptop, tablet or phone. Nothing to install.

Mr Ejaz Ahmad, IB-certified Maths AA HL tutor and founder of Photon Academy
Your tutor

Mr Ejaz Ahmad

Founder of Photon Academy and an IB-certified tutor in Mathematics AA HL and Physics, with more than 15 years teaching the Diploma Programme and a Bachelor of Engineering from the National University of Singapore.

He writes almost everything Photon publishes — the notes, the cheatsheets, the question-bank tagging and the Studio ladders. That matters here: the person building your vectors material is the person in the room when you get stuck on it.

IB Certified — Maths AA HL IB Certified — Physics 15+ years teaching the DP 100+ students a year
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Programme fee

One fee, nothing else to buy.

US$380
per student  ·  the complete ten-session programme  ·  US$38 a session
  • 10 live online sessions, 90 minutes each, in a small group
  • Complete coverage of AHL 3.12–3.16, the entire vectors strand
  • Vectors notes, cheatsheets and tutorials, rebuilt for this cohort
  • The Learning Studio vectors module — 20 basics and 15 exam questions, unlocked throughout
  • Marked exit tickets after Sessions 2–9
  • Every session recording, shared with the group
Enrol — US$380

Access opens as soon as the payment clears — the portal, the notes and tutorials, and the Learning Studio module all at once. Photon Academy is a Singapore business, so the card is billed the equivalent in Singapore dollars. Not ready to pay? Ask a question first — that commits you to nothing.

Separately available

Photon builds a good deal more than one strand.

None of it is part of this programme, and none of it is needed for it. It is listed here only so you know it exists — each is a separate product with its own price.

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