FREE NCEA Level 3 Differentiation Survival Notes (91578)

A free one-page summary for NCEA Level 3 Differentiation (91578), in the Level 3 Calculus exam on Monday 16 November 2026, 9:30am.

ON ONE PAGE

• Standard derivatives, including the reciprocal trig functions

• The chain, product and quotient rules, with a worked example

• Tangents and normals

• Rates of change and related rates

• Stationary points, inflection and concavity

• Parametric differentiation, including the second derivative

• Optimisation in five steps

• Limits, continuity and differentiability

• Kola's exam tips

FORMAT: Instant PDF download (A4, one page). Free to share with classmates.

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