Maths tomorrow!

[mangle]

Seems quite a few people have it, AQA maths non calc paper.
I am not looking forward to it, I find it SOLID.

[dirrty]

yh i got 1 tomorrow. then another on the 2nd of june. but im doing foundation so should b a piece of piss.

[mangle]

lucky you
most ppl in my skl are doing higher, its damn hard ;\

[CHA!NGANG]

Yeh I am doing it tomorrow. So far I have 42/50% in the Modules/Coursework, so I need roughly 60% in the two Exams to get an A which is what I am aiming for. Oh well... 2 Pages down, 298 left. Its gona be a long night...

[iknowkungfu]

i'm doing higher, i'm bricking it tbh, i can't do ******* algebra!!!!!!!

[Immenseman]

i have this tomorrow too, yay. However because i'm not entering my modules each paper is 40% each. I can only do my best and i'm also doing higher! :D

[benn!]

cosine rule ;_____; kill me now

[mangle]

SOHCAHTOA

Thats all I know with trig!
But that's going to come up on June 2nd so we can leave that atm!!

[benn!]

SOHCAHTOA

Thats all I know with trig!
But that's going to come up on June 2nd so we can leave that atm!!
sohcahtoa is easy, aswell as pythagoras.

i can't do sine/cosine rule to save my life.

looking through the paper now and i can't remember how to factorise, omgggggg.

oh and i can't do circle theorems either. OOPS.

[Alkaz]

I need atleast a B in both papers tbh -cry lol i got h tomorrow aswell, last year i did them on my bday

[Immenseman]

Will everyones be at the same time because I don't actually know when mine are? Afternoon or morning?

[benn!]

mines in the morning
there is 2 hours of maths revision on at school tonight, i'll probably go lmao.

i just looked through this paper i got given, it's supposed to be very simular to tomorrows. i can't do any of it aah.

[Alkaz]

h = 8:45 for me, f is on another day.

[Immenseman]

How long is your exam?

[Axel]

I got A and A* in the other exams but I'm still dreading this one.

[mangle]

I got a 2 hour paper at 8.45 in the morning.

Woowoo :|

[Immenseman]

I'm not sure if mine starts at 9:10 or 1:20, ahh.

[mangle]

What exam board you with?

[Immenseman]

I'm with OCR.

[mangle]

Ouch, I hate OCR.
They do my food tech papers.

[Immenseman]

I've had a look through some old papers, they don't seem THAT bad.

[dirrty]

mine starts at 9. dunno wot exam bored tho
probs ocr

[Immenseman]

Good luck to everyone! :D

[iknowkungfu]

mine's aqa i think? it starts at 9

[mangle]

You too!
And dirtyy is yours non calc tomorrow?

[Tristan]

Think I'm AQA.
I would be disappointed with a C.
Should get a B.
If I get an A that would be well good.
My exam starts 8:55.

[Plank]

got mine tomorrow as well, its non calculator with edexcel at 9am then calculator is on 2nd june at 2pm. i need to revise graphs and surds cos i can never do them. oh yeah and vectors.:(:(:(:(:(:(

[Immenseman]

I think i'd happily take a C at the moment tbh.

[Bevvie]

I got A and A* in the other exams but I'm still dreading this one.

Same. lol.

This is the biggest exam out of the ones we done in maths. I ain't looking forward to it especially the quadratic simultaneous equations.

I am worried if i do bad on this one, then it will make my overall grade lower. Not sure :S

Mines starts at 8.30am, well thats what it says on my timetable.

[mangle]

I want a B. I'd be happy with that.

[Josh-H]

I've also got my maths papers tomorrow. Need 54% to get an A overall. And 92% for an A* overall (Because I've done previous module tests).

A should be ok, A* is out of my range. Cosine -> *** :)

[Throne Sofa]

I've got it tomorrow, I do foundation and I hope to get 90% in it. Non calc tomos.

[buttons]

omdz i'm doin higher for next yr dunno why cause my credit (dunno the equivalent to u guys) was well hard !!!!!
u mean cosine as in a+b-cxcosine woteva. omg.

[PaintYourTarget]

Sex
On
Hard
Concrete
Always
Hurts
The
Orgasmic
Areas

That's all I remember from GCSE maths - use it wisely.
Got my A Level maths papers on the 2nd of June =[

[Immenseman]

Who in the right mond would choose a level maths?! :P

[PaintYourTarget]

Who in the right mond would choose a level maths?! :P
Someone who dropped Physics for something a tad easier :eusa_whis

[benn!]

Sex
On
Hard
Concrete
Always
Hurts
The
Orgasmic
Areas

That's all I remember from GCSE maths - use it wisely.
Got my A Level maths papers on the 2nd of June =[
i just remember it as socahtoa (prounounced as one word)

Who in the right mond would choose a level maths?! :P
i nearly did lol

[mangle]

I was going to take physics, decided against it!

I can't do GCSE let alone a-level maths.

[drama]

i have a statistics exam june the something :(
i got a B in my first maths exam, 2 marks off an A :@

[Davii]

oo unlucky, i doing the edexcel igcse so i dotn have a non calc paper wooo, 1st paper was like well easy, shud be 90%+ and 2nd one on tuesday

[benn!]

omg serious? i took physics ;__;
Someone who dropped Physics for something a tad easier :eusa_whis

[iknowkungfu]

well mine went crap, i couldn't do hardly anything after question 18.

[mangle]

It was alright, turned to front page and almost cried LOL

[Tristan]

lol.
I was a bit surprised at the front page. Didn't think I could do it, then looked at it for a minute then realised what was needed. :P

Mine went pretty good.
I think I could get a B on that paper but maybe not. But I'm pretty confident with a B on that paper.
What on earth @ the q like... Explain why: x2 - x - 5 = 0 makes x = 2.8 or something!
In the end, I don't think there was any sine or cosine, lol... I like sine rule. :(
Didn't do quadratic equations either, I don't think. :( I'm good at that.
It did get really quite hard at the end. :P

[mangle]

That question with 2.8 was SO easy.

All you had to say was, look across on the graph, at the 0 line the graph interesects it at 2.8!

[Inseriousity.]

Thought the maths one was easier than I expected. The past papers were definitely harder than that!

There was that darn 7 mark question with the 'work out the mass' of the two cubes and the pyramid and I was like '***?' so yeah, I lost 7 marks minimum. I did try it though! :P

[Tristan]

o...
lol. :cry:
I was looking at it and I was like, it's on the 0. What do I say? How can I explain the answer? Lol.

[mangle]

LOL
I only got it cos in my mock I flopped a question like that.

[mr.parasols]

I did the "Higher Linear EDEXL" maths paper (1hr 45m) and it was pretty easy untill question 22 - 27? I sort of knew which questions I got right and I think I got 82/100 in total. But thats only the ones I know I did get. Does anyone know the grade boundaries? ;o

EDIT :

Checked on some forums these are quotes :

i think it's about 30% for a C, 45% for a B, 65% for an A and 80%/85% for an A*. That's that i was told.


i think for our maths exam in november the grade boudaries for higher were:
~82% A*
~75% (?) A

we've been told around 85% is A* but personally i reckon it might be a bit higher, since the exam is supposedly "easier"but for higher

its 30~ marks for C
and over 40 probably B

[iknowkungfu]

apparently it's like 25 marks for a c? ;s that's aqa though.

[mangle]

It's 34 I think. 50 for a B and idno the rest.

[Axel]

That was EASY! The only questions I found hard was finding y in that circle triangle thingy, what the theorem was called, and the next question. The last two questions were a free 13 marks.

[mangle]

Circle theorem was easy.

It was 75, opposite angles add up to 180. Other one was 105 so it had to be 75.

[Axel]

Well I didn't work out the other one was 105 so yeee. I knew x was 94. And I didn't know the name of the equation.

I think I've lost 9 marks already from those questions, but the rest were damn easy. The mass of the cubes and pyramid was just an easy 7 marks... it was simple equations but it just took along time.

But I think we were taking different exams Pooj... I didn't get any graphs, just 'draw the plan of this shape'. That was like foundation.

[Bevvie]

O i failed that then. loool. Did bad on the Circle Theorem.
And mucked up on the Major Arc one, i didn't revise for that so i guessed it. Oh and to make x the subject, forgot how to do that. aha.

Same Axel.

[Inseriousity.]

I got the circle theorem one. I got 94 for x and couldn't work out y lmao but I put alternate segment for the circle theorem because that's the only one I know :P

[Plank]

The grade boundaries aren't decided until all the papers have been marked, because they change depending on how everyone that took the paper performed. So if lots of people found it easy and got high marks, the grade boundaries will be higher and vice versa.

[Immenseman]

The grade boundaries aren't decided until all the papers have been marked, because they change depending on how everyone that took the paper performed. So if lots of people found it easy and got high marks, the grade boundaries will be higher and vice versa.

Yeah but there has never been a real dramatic change, it's around the same sort of marks.

[Axel]

I got the circle theorem one. I got 94 for x and couldn't work out y lmao but I put alternate segment for the circle theorem because that's the only one I know :P

Yep same, got 94 for x then spent about 5 minutes trying to get y and just.. couldn't.

[jccjcc]

did anyone else do the higher edexcel paper?

[Trayan]

I did mine yesterday , however i found it very easy .. The only thing i spent ages doing was finding the perimeter of that shape with 2 semi curcles and a rectangle in the middle.

[le harry]

Ooh, so everyone is doing Quadratics and Trigonmetry? We're doing that now and our exam is um next friday, it's easyyyyy apart from 3D trig which is a pain.

[Tristan]

lol.
I was a bit surprised at the front page. Didn't think I could do it, then looked at it for a minute then realised what was needed. :P

Mine went pretty good.
I think I could get a B on that paper but maybe not. But I'm pretty confident with a B on that paper.
What on earth @ the q like... Explain why: x2 - x - 5 = 0 makes x = 2.8 or something!
In the end, I don't think there was any sine or cosine, lol... I like sine rule. :(
Didn't do quadratic equations either, I don't think. :( I'm good at that.
It did get really quite hard at the end. :P

I'm an idiot.
sine and cosine are calculator questions. :P

[le harry]

I'm an idiot.
sine and cosine are calculator questions. :P
Yes, yes you are. :D