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AH Maths 2006 Exam Post Mortem

Started by albidalbibab, May 19 2006 02:52 PM

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Poll: How many marks (out of 100) do you think you got? (37 member(s) have cast votes)

How many marks (out of 100) do you think you got?

  1. Less than 30 (6 votes [16.22%])

    Percentage of vote: 16.22%

  2. 30-50 (4 votes [10.81%])

    Percentage of vote: 10.81%

  3. 50-60 (5 votes [13.51%])

    Percentage of vote: 13.51%

  4. 60-70 (11 votes [29.73%])

    Percentage of vote: 29.73%

  5. 70-80 (5 votes [13.51%])

    Percentage of vote: 13.51%

  6. 80-90 (2 votes [5.41%])

    Percentage of vote: 5.41%

  7. 90-100 (4 votes [10.81%])

    Percentage of vote: 10.81%

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#21 Jonny-Sensei

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Posted 19 May 2006 - 04:25 PM

QUOTE(Ally @ May 19 2006, 05:14 PM) View Post

Was just talking to one of my mates who got a Band 1 in the prelim. Thinks he only got a B in this exam.


I got 93% in the prelim, and I also think I'm gonna get a B. Saying that exam was SADISTIC is not an overstatement!!!
Roll on ze gap year !!

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Posted 19 May 2006 - 04:27 PM

When the gaussian elimination is redundant you make z=z dont you and then work bak from there.

The exam did seem to throw in all the questions that nobody wanted. There was too much integration no partial fractions, no real matrices, the sequence and series was a bit strange. Differential equation could have been a bit harder or worth more marks. Overall It was a difficult paper especially the asymptotes question and the proof by induction.

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Posted 19 May 2006 - 04:30 PM

man that exam

haha

that exam

quality

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Posted 19 May 2006 - 04:30 PM

That was the worst exam/test/prelim I've ever sat!! It was sooooo much worse than past papers and I'm definitely going to fail. Maths was the ony subject this year I thought I could do well in : sad.gif oh well... thank god i don't need it for uni! Feel like crying now.

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Posted 19 May 2006 - 04:45 PM

my maths teacher came in at the end and said it was the hardest yet. The boundaries will go way down

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Posted 19 May 2006 - 04:46 PM

I agree with everyone that is posting here. It was the hardest adv higher paper i have sat !
The 2002 one was supposed to be hard but this was by far worse !!

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Posted 19 May 2006 - 04:51 PM

Are the SQA seriously this incapable of keeping exam standards consistent? What an absolute joke - I've yet to hear of a single person who found it fair.

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Posted 19 May 2006 - 04:56 PM

*praying AH Chemistry isn't anywhere NEAR this difficult*
Roll on ze gap year !!

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Posted 19 May 2006 - 04:58 PM

QUOTE(PinkFloyd @ May 19 2006, 05:56 PM) View Post

*praying AH Chemistry isn't anywhere NEAR this difficult*


I hope AH chemistry will be okay, because *touch wood* they tend to recycle the questions from previous years. I'm not looking forward to AH biology though! If the essay's on DNA profiling I may cry.

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Posted 19 May 2006 - 04:59 PM

im stilll very angry at this paper i think i did ok in it with regards to failing ie wasnt like 10% or anything so im hopeful they will drag them right down

WTF was q17 all about?

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Posted 19 May 2006 - 05:06 PM

Q17 was quite difficult although managed to get all but part d. Q13 was pain cos we have never done proofs with matrices in that way. Maths teacher said to our class after we did it that it was sufficiently difficult. Hopefully they will drop the pass mark from last year

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Posted 19 May 2006 - 05:09 PM

AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH blink.gif ohmy.gif laugh.gif laugh.gif laugh.gif laugh.gif laugh.gif blink.gif blink.gif

If it makes anyone feel better, I found that paper totally hard. It was evil. The other past papers that I tried were quite easy compared to this one, especially last years.

It wasnt too bad to start with but then that one on prooving crap came up and i was like WTF. The differential equation one should have been harder for more marks. Dont know what question 10 was all about but I didnt seem to get a very good answer for Q11. And what was the deal with all of these even/odd things?

I wasnt sure about the prove by induction one but the worst questions were the last two and qustion 14C.
The last one did not make any sense and neither did the sequence one. mad.gif
Someone show us how to do last one.
Nothing!!!!!!!!

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Posted 19 May 2006 - 05:13 PM

is anyone going to be posting up answers like last year in the higher....?

thanks

#34 Jason Bourne

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Posted 19 May 2006 - 05:14 PM

who has the answers?
Nothing!!!!!!!!

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Posted 19 May 2006 - 05:16 PM

the last question of what I got of it relies this rule.

cos{^2}x = \frac{1}{2}x + \frac{1}{2}cos2x


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Posted 19 May 2006 - 05:19 PM

i did that and made a lot of stuff up

did anyone do what i did and make it miraculously come to the right answer ie having no working

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Posted 19 May 2006 - 05:21 PM

7) a) I tried making n=2m (even) first then n=2m+1 (odd). False. Doubt this is correct.

7)b) n=2 gives 15, which isn't prime.

10) differentiate. made dx/dt = 0, solve for T. then find d2x/dt2 and check the nature.

11) I ended up with something like 2xsin2x I think.

16) Didn't seem too bad, it seemed to be loads of simplifying.

I'm VERY interested in what the answer to q13 is, if anyone knows.
Roll on ze gap year !!

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Posted 19 May 2006 - 05:23 PM

haaaa
what was that all about!!!!!!!!!!!!


it was well hard!
first page was easy then the rest
bloody hell lol!!!!!


INDUCTION!!!! ALL THAT INTEGRATION!!!! EVEN FUNCTIONS! WTF!

LOL GOOD I GOT 6 UNCONDITIONALS!!!
like sumbody said earlier, where was the pish easy euclidean and partial fraction stuff. and even this year they make the differential equation an easy one where i cud of dun with a slighltly harder one worth more marks!!!!!!!!!

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Posted 19 May 2006 - 05:24 PM

QUOTE(PinkFloyd @ May 19 2006, 06:21 PM) View Post



7)b) n=2 gives 15, which isn't prime.




i did that too! biggrin.gif
Nothing!!!!!!!!

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Posted 19 May 2006 - 05:26 PM

QUOTE(Jason Bourne @ May 19 2006, 06:09 PM) View Post

AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH blink.gif ohmy.gif laugh.gif laugh.gif laugh.gif laugh.gif laugh.gif blink.gif blink.gif

If it makes anyone feel better, I found that paper totally hard. It was evil. The other past papers that I tryed were quite easy compared to this one, especially last years.

It wasnt too bad to start with but then that one on prooving crap came up and i was like WTF. The differential equation one should have been harder for more marks. Dont know what question 10 was all about but I didnt seem to get a very good answer for Q11. And what was the deal with all of these even/odd things?

I wasnt sure about the prove by induction one but the worst questions were the last two and qustion 14C.
The last one did not make any sense and neither did the sequence one. mad.gif
Someone show us how to do last one.




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