Skip to content

High Standards NZ

Levels Subjects Past Exam Papers

How NCEA Works How New Zealand Scholarship Works

Live QuizSoonDashboard

Loading subjects

High Standards NZ

Original NCEA revision content for NZ secondary students.

Explore

Subjects
Past exam papers
How NCEA works
How NZ Scholarship works

About this site

For official past papers and assessment specifications, visit nzqa.govt.nz. High Standards NZ is an independent study resource and is not affiliated with or endorsed by NZQA.

Contact

hello@highstandards.co.nz

Legal stuff

Privacy policy
Terms and conditions

© 2026 High Standards NZ.

Talk to us

Tell us what to fix or add. It goes straight to the person who writes these notes.

What's this about?

Something wrongA mistake, a typo, or a page that won't workSomething newA topic, standard or feature you wish we hadSomething elseAnything at all

Your message

We read every message. We can't always reply.

Revision notes
Practice questions
Live QuizSoon
Past exams

Loading topics

Calculus
/Level 3
/Past exams
/AS91578

AS91578 · Calculus Level 3

Differentiation — past exam papers

Apply differentiation methods in solving problems

8 exam years, newest first. Every link opens the document on the NZQA website.

Sitting this in 2026?

NZQA has published the assessment specification — what the 2026 paper will and will not cover. Read it before you start on the past papers.

2026 assessment specification →

2025

Exam paper1090KB Marking schedule288KB Examiner's report149KB

Te reo Māori:Pepa whakamātautau

2024

Exam paper1258KB Marking schedule1550KB Examiner's report191KB Exemplar — Achieved18550KB Exemplar — Merit19247KB Exemplar — Excellence18472KB

Te reo Māori:Pepa whakamātautau

2023

Exam paper1073KB Marking schedule914KB Examiner's report199KB

Te reo Māori:Pepa whakamātautau

2022

Exam paper1183KB Marking schedule844KB Examiner's report220KB

Te reo Māori:Pepa whakamātautau

2021

Exam paper1064KB Marking schedule896KB Examiner's report300KB

Te reo Māori:Pepa whakamātautau

2017

NZQA no longer publishes the paper for this year

Exemplar19006KB

2016

NZQA no longer publishes the paper for this year

Exemplar55198KB

2015

NZQA no longer publishes the paper for this year

Exemplar30868KB

Revision notes for Calculus Level 3 →AS91578 on NZQA →

Other examined standards in this course

Complex numbers

8 years of papers

Integration

8 years of papers