Tim Lamb wrote in
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In message , Harry Davis
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Hmmm, when I did O level maths in 1961, we didn't do any calculus.
However, I did my O-level maths a year early, and then did the
Additional Maths O-level a year later. That had a lot of calculus in
it.

My uncle did calculus for his maths O Level in 1957.

It was only very elementary, just powers of x if I recall correctly. I
don't know which board he did.

Apparently the JMB maths O Level had syllabuses A for grammar schools and
B for secondary moderns. Presumably the latter was followed only by a
small percentage of pupils at secondary moderns, this being before CSEs,
when most would have left without any academic qualifications.

There was no calculus in the 1959 Cambridge O level maths. (Mind it was
reckoned to be easier than the Oxford version).

I vaguely recall sitting the *B* paper which the site below says did not
include calculus.

The author of that site is wrong. The 1968 exam papers reproduced on that
page, which are both B papers, do require calculus. In Paper I, question A3
(b) asks candidates to integrate 3x^2 +(x^5)/5. In Paper II, question B11
also requires calculus.

Harry