Quizzes, exams, and flashcards about Higher Mathematics: Higher Mathematics: Calculus and Beyond.← National 5 and Higher (Scotland)Higher Mathematics is the qualification Scottish universities build their offers on, and it is a genuine step up from National 5 rather than more of the same: calculus arrives, and with it the expectation that you can say what a derivative or an integral means rather than only compute one. Around that sit the circle and the straight line treated as equations, vectors in three dimensions, logarithms and exponentials, the wave function and trigonometric identities, polynomials and the remainder theorem, and recurrence relations. The two papers split by calculator again, and the marks divide the same way they always do — method is credited, and the candidates who lose most are the ones who reach for a formula before working out which situation they are in. Practice here works on that decision as much as on the algebra.