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Pearson Edexcel International GCSE Mathematics A · Higher (Papers 1H and 2H) · Numbers and the number system
Powers and roots
Marks, papers and a question to try for 4MA1 Higher powers and roots.
All sittings since 2019
In the papers analysed (January 2019 to November 2025, 54 papers).
What the papers show
- Share of marks
- 3.7% of the marks analysed
- How often
- On 48 of 54 papers analysed
- Which papers
- Paper 1H (calculator allowed), Paper 2H (calculator allowed)
- Usual command words
- find, show that, write, work out, express
- Difficulty
- middling (2.8 on a scale from 1, the easiest, to 5)
- Last seen
- November 2025
A question to try
One generated question on powers and roots. Type your answer; you see the working after you have had a go.
Generated for 4MA1 Higher. A small sample: it does not measure your whole course.