I can also remember my teacher explaining calculus and doing stuff like deriving the formulae for volume of a cone, it was pretty interesting to me; I remember having lots of ideas for engineering problems that could be solved with techniques like this.<p>I know the system is different in the US, you start university earlier I think? Are the students taking this class  17-18 yrs?<p>I&#x27;m curious to know more about what your syllabus and exam is like, are there past papers online? Here is the maths exam[0] I took when I was about 17 (it&#x27;s been a while) <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cambridgeassessment.org.uk&#x2F;Images&#x2F;249523-question-paper.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cambridgeassessment.org.uk&#x2F;Images&#x2F;249523-question...</a> By the way, I doubt I could answer any of the questions now...