Matrices: CAS Skills & Exam Technique

What this note covers

1. Set up your CAS before you touch the question
2. Powers and inverses: the two operations exams live on
3. Fully worked: a transition matrix question, exam style
4. Common CAS errors and the ten-second fixes
5. Interpreting CAS output: the mark is in the sentence
6. How matrix marks are allocated, and how to bank all of them

6 sections · 14 key terms & formulas · 6 common mistakes