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The first exams at WU: Mathematik in the CBK, the STEOP exam in VWL + ZuWi and, before them, the entrance test. How they are graded, when they take place and how you prepare for them. Every number and rule has a source; where WU publishes nothing, we say so.
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Mathematics (CBK)
Around the exam
- Article · 8 min
Mathematik (CBK) exam dates, read, fits your answers
The three dates, the LPIS registration windows, when you learn your room, what to bring and what comes after a fail.
- Article · 6 min
Negative marking in Mathematik (CBK), read, fits your answers
The −0.25 rule with three free wrong answers, what a guess is worth on average, a calculator for your situation and three practice questions of our own.
The 9 chapters
Chapter 1: Linear and quadratic functions
- Article · 7 min
Cost, revenue, monopoly (CBK), read, fits your answers
Break-even, the monopolist’s profit maximum and the mix-ups that cost points, with three practice questions of our own in the exam format.
- Article · 6 min
Arithmetic sequences (CBK), read, fits your answers
The n-th term, the sum, and when a running total reaches a target, with three practice questions of our own in the exam format.
Chapter 2: Elementary financial mathematics
- Article · 8 min
Compound interest, sequences (CBK), read, fits your answers
Simple and compound interest, the time to a target by logarithm and the sum of a geometric sequence, with three practice questions of our own.
- Article · 8 min
Annuities and compounding (CBK), read, fits your answers
Present and future value of an annuity, the perpetuity, the effective annual rate and continuous compounding, with three practice questions of our own.
Chapter 3: Differential calculus
- Article · 8 min
Derivatives and chain rule (CBK), read, fits your answers
What a derivative is, which rules the questions combine and which slips cost points, with three practice questions of our own in the exam format.
- Article · 8 min
Marginal cost and elasticity (CBK), read, fits your answers
Marginal cost, elasticity, the shutdown point and the monopolist’s profit maximum worked out with derivatives, with three practice questions of our own.
- Articles coming
Chapter 4: Integral calculus
Chapter 5: Probability
- Article · 8 min
Conditional probability (CBK), read, fits your answers
Events, the addition rule, conditional probability, the two-way table and independence, with three practice questions of our own in the exam format.
- Article · 8 min
Expected value and distributions (CBK), read, fits your answers
Random variables, expected value and variance, the binomial distribution and standardising the normal distribution, with three practice questions of our own.
- Articles coming
Chapter 6: Systems of linear equations
- Articles coming
Chapter 7: Matrices
- Articles coming
Chapter 8: Differential calculus with functions of two variables
- Articles coming
Chapter 9: Bivariate probability
Economics + ZuWi (STEOP)
Entrance test (WISO, WiRe, BBE)
- Article · 7 min
The WISO entrance test at WU, read, fits your answers
Procedure, syllabus, scoring and preparation for 2027, every statement backed by a WU source.
- Article · 8 min
The admission rate at WU Vienna, read, fits your answers
Registered, admitted, exam takers and study places for WISO, WiRe and BBE, year by year from WU’s own announcements.
- Article · 8 min
Points in the WU entrance test, read, fits your answers
WU’s rule in plain words, each question type with a worked example, a calculator, and three practice questions with the points of every combination.
- Article · 10 min
Maths in the WISO entrance test, read, fits your answers
What WU tests in mathematics, what is on the formula sheet, and one solved task for every topic.
Calculate and look up
Partial-credit calculator, fits your answers
Rebuild a question and see how WU scores it.
Places per 100 exam takers, fits your answers
WISO, WiRe and BBE 2026: admitted, sat the exam, places.
Formula sheet and the 13 topics, fits your answers
What is on WU’s sheet and what you must know yourself.