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IB Mathematics: Analysis and Approaches Grade Distribution

Latest data: May 2026Provisional

In May 2026, 38.9% of IB Mathematics: Analysis and Approaches HL students and 24.0% of SL students got a 6 or 7. The most common grade was 5 at HL (24.3%) and 4 at SL (25.5%).

Compared with May 2025, the grade 6 or 7 rate was up from 36.7% at HL and down from 26.0% at SL.

Mathematics: Analysis and Approaches grade distribution by session

The share of students at each grade at HL and SL in every session since November 2021, newest first, with the mean grade and number of students. The chart shows May 2026.

Share of IB Mathematics: Analysis and Approaches students at each grade at HL and SL, May 2026.
IB Mathematics: Analysis and Approaches grade distribution by session and level, newest first
Session and level1234567N6 or 7Mean gradeStudents
May 2026 HLprovisional0.54.210.720.324.322.116.81.238.95.026,591
May 2026 SLprovisional1.17.916.025.523.915.58.51.624.04.542,995
November 2025 HL0.87.19.617.217.620.724.32.845.05.13,389
November 2025 SL2.319.522.518.516.112.37.61.319.93.97,900
May 2025 HL0.75.110.821.823.720.316.41.136.74.924,966
May 2025 SL1.38.015.224.723.116.89.21.526.04.542,358
November 2024 HL0.76.011.117.617.222.223.31.945.55.13,081
November 2024 SL1.720.220.422.914.311.97.41.219.33.97,507
May 2024 HL0.95.311.321.324.021.614.61.036.24.922,635
May 2024 SL1.17.315.223.824.617.69.01.526.64.540,279
November 2023 HL0.86.610.913.817.625.822.02.547.85.12,645
November 2023 SL2.320.722.421.215.310.36.51.316.83.87,883
May 2023 HL0.95.511.121.424.721.614.9—36.54.8820,719
May 2023 SL1.16.415.722.924.619.210.1—29.34.6138,954
November 2022 HL0.53.08.716.716.621.133.3—54.45.422,273
November 2022 SL0.97.820.426.420.812.711.0—23.74.406,549
May 2022 HL0.42.87.718.426.523.021.1—44.15.2119,698
May 2022 SL0.42.910.421.926.923.114.4—37.54.9938,566
November 2021 HL0.11.98.216.017.219.037.6—56.65.562,130
November 2021 SL0.12.616.227.925.014.313.8—28.14.746,563

Percentage of students at each grade, as published. The grade 6 or 7 rate is the two shares added.

  • These bulletins print no N (no grade) column, so grades 1-7 are shares of the students who received a grade, and N is shown as —. (November 2021, May 2022, November 2022, May 2023)
  • These bulletins include N (no grade) in the total, so grades 1-7 add up to less than 100% and are measured on a slightly different basis from sessions without an N column. (November 2023, May 2024, November 2024, May 2025, November 2025, May 2026)
  • Grade cells the bulletin leaves blank are shown as 0.0%. (November 2021, May 2022, November 2022, May 2023, May 2024, May 2025)
  • The IB states that these results combine examination and non-examination assessment routes, which were used during the COVID-19 disruption. (May 2022)

How Mathematics: Analysis and Approaches grades changed since May 2025

The share of students at each grade in May 2026, and how it changed from May 2025, in percentage points.

IB Mathematics: Analysis and Approaches grade shares, May 2026, and the change from May 2025
GradeHL May 2026HL changeSL May 2026SL change
716.8%+0.48.5%−0.7
622.1%+1.815.5%−1.3
524.3%+0.623.9%+0.8
420.3%−1.525.5%+0.8
310.7%−0.116.0%+0.8
24.2%−0.97.9%−0.1
10.5%−0.21.1%−0.2
6 or 738.9%+2.224.0%−2.0

May 2026 figures are provisional.

  • Grade cells the bulletin leaves blank are shown as 0.0%. (May 2025)

Mathematics: Analysis and Approaches grade 6 or 7 rate by session

The share of students awarded a 6 or 7 at HL and SL in every session since November 2021. Solid lines are May sessions and dashed lines November, a much smaller session. For 7s alone, see what percentage of students get a 7 in IB Mathematics: Analysis and Approaches.

Share of IB Mathematics: Analysis and Approaches students awarded a 6 or 7 at HL and SL by year, May and November sessions.
IB Mathematics: Analysis and Approaches grade 6 or 7 rate by session, newest first, with the change from a year earlier
SessionHLHL changeSLSL change
May 2026provisional38.9%+2.224.0%−2.0
November 202545.0%−0.519.9%+0.6
May 202536.7%+0.526.0%−0.6
November 202445.5%−2.319.3%+2.5
May 202436.2%—26.6%—
November 202347.8%—16.8%—
May 202336.5%−7.629.3%−8.2
November 202254.4%−2.223.7%−4.4
May 202244.1%—37.5%—
November 202156.6%—28.1%—

Change: the difference from the same session a year earlier, May from May and November from November, in percentage points.

—: no result for that session, or none a year earlier to compare it with.

Grade shares from November 2023 count students with no grade (N) and earlier ones don't, so changes across that point aren't shown.

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Source and methodology

These statistics are from the International Baccalaureate's statistical bulletins. The latest data shown is from the May 2026 assessment session.

About this data

  • May and November are separate assessment sessions. November is much smaller and mostly taken by schools in the southern hemisphere, so its figures aren't directly comparable with May's.
  • The May 2026 figures are from the IB's provisional bulletin and may change when the final bulletin is published.
  • Older bulletins call the people sitting the exams “candidates” and newer ones “students”. This site says “students” throughout.
  • “<10” means the IB didn't publish the exact number because fewer than 10 students took the subject. These figures are never estimated or counted as zero.
  • The grade 7 rate is the share of students the bulletin reports at grade 7. The grade 6 or 7 rate is calculated by IBonomics by adding the published shares for grades 6 and 7. Every other figure is as published.
  • From November 2023 the bulletins include students who received no grade (N) in each subject's percentages, so grades 1 to 7 add up to slightly less than 100%. Earlier bulletins give percentages of graded students only.
  • Bulletins up to May 2023 print figures to two decimal places and later ones to one. Each figure is shown as printed, and changes are compared at the lower precision.

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