dude im glad im not alone i was really stressed throughout the whole of that exam im seriously feel im lucky to get 50%. Did you see q9 creating your own differential equation and integrating it WTF.
That was pretty bad; they could of at least made it a 'show that' so everyone could at least attempt the 8 mark integration. Q2-4 just stumped me pretty much completely. And what was with the binomial expansion of (a+x)-2. How are you meant to deal with that? (1+ax)-2 wouldn't have been a problem... but that made no sense to me!
Hi I took this paper too, i did bad. I just searched the internet to hopefully find that i was not the only one, because most people in my class didnt have too many problems. I needed 62% to get a B. I worked out (in the spare time at the end of the exam when i felt like dying) that if i got 100% of everything i actually DID correct then i would get 66% But i will not have got everything i did correct so i will not get a B and uni will tell me to piss off So yeh, i dont know anything about this forum, but christ i hated that paper. oh yeh to add, i agree with figgl001. i could not believe question 9. Also there were so many questions where in all the other papers they would start with part i) and then ii), but these just jumped straight into it. Like question 2. that was a mess
I wouldn't worry about it too much. When I did (OCR) Chemistry at A level they set a ridiculously hard paper one year, but most people got fairly decent marks because they moderated it up. You could take out a factor of a-2 so you get a-2(1+x/a)-2 = a-2(1+x')-2, where x' = x/a. Then expand as normal.
If it makes you feel any better, when I did my C4 a couple of years back, I left out the back page (15 marks out of 75) by accident cos I didn't turn the page.... >_<
those questions look hard, even for a just-graduated BEng Electronics student (myself) if you are worried about getting into Uni, don't worry, i f*cked up my A-level physics and still got in. i needed AAB to get into Soton ECS, but i got AAC. C for Physics. was going to AAA in all of them, but f*cked up the final physics exams. when results came out, i gave Soton university a call and they said i got in, received UCAS confirmation letter the next day.
I forget how restrictive A-level exams are, I've gotten used to being able to leave half way through a uni exam and take your paper with you.
Agreed, I needed ABB and got AADE (don't ask) and Bristol were fine about it, just took a bit of wrangling as it took an extra week for one of my final grades to come through.
I might reattempt advanced maths with the OU when I graduate, just because it was so fun. I got a D overall and a B in Further, but I still enjoyed it immensely. Core 4 was my favourite of the C modules. I did pretty terribly in all of them, though- the F. Maths syllabus requires you to learn too much in too short a space of time.
I didn't think A2 maths was that difficult, it just revolves around a couple of key concepts for the most part.
A2 maths for me was basically integration - just different methods of what I now understand is really simple integration.
I have my Core 4 exam tomorrow. I thought everyone in the country had it on the same day... But it'll definitely be on the same difficulty level won't it? And now I'm dreading it...
The actual exam might be easier as it'll be a different paper - but you'll have to do better in it to get the grade. In theory it should be just as difficult to get an A whichever exam board you're sitting.
Ah, different exam board...why didn't I make that link? See?! What hope do I have in A-Level Maths? I kid, I should be nervous but it's just not happening...however I do despise finding perpendicular distances from a point to a line in Vectors.
