Worst maths GCSE paper ever
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Lol, that still doesn't answer my question of 'why is it REALLY important?'. And yes I do, my boyfriend was the most sucessful academically in my year. He got the highest A*'s in everything then at A-Level got 600/600 in physics, 59_/600's in his other 3 subjects and 2 AEA distinctions and he agrees looking back, it's worth shit-all... and now hes less of a twat.jiamenguk said:
I think this used to be the case, but getting into college is becoming more competetive. I think it's something to do with them having less money (or delayed in getting money) because the chief executive of the Learning and Skills Council, Mark Haysom, resigned... although that might be a different issue. Someone care to tell me if that's right?nicole1207 said:
the idea is that colleges will become more picky, so having A*s would make people stand out from the crowd, thus more likely to get in the course that they want
Either way, there's no reason to set sights any lower, might as well put the work in.
lol, I suppose it's not, but it's just fun (for some people) to know who's a little better than the other, when both can obviously get full marks, and laugh at the other one if they didn't. It's good sport, in a good way. I mean, GCSEs are worth almost nothing, unless i want to apply to Uni's for scholarships or something, I know, it's not, but its just for the fun. Besides, sometimes it does get frustrating to know that you're wrong, when you know you can get it right, or simply because they didn't ask the question properly, or it wasn't a good question, or it's just no fun to answer.nicole1207 said:
At least those questions are on the easier side of the scale, even if some of them are a bit irrelevant.
I remember doing my nationwide exams when we were finishing up high school. 15 questions, answer to 10 of them, 6 hours to do it.
Math exam, question number five "The theorem of pythagoras states that a^2+b^2=c^2. Prove the theorem."
Question 8 "Solve both parts a and b. Part a: The integral function of f(x) is 1/2cos(2x). What is f(x). Part b: solve equation (e^x)^3=e^(2x)."
Question 12: "Solve both parts. Part a: solve equation lg x + lg (x+30)=3, where lg is 10-based logarithm. Part b: Is function f(x)=ln(x+1)-ln x, x>0, monotonous? Why?"
And those were around the middle ground when it came up to difficulty. I'd been glad to to take those tests you're talking about.
EDIT: I'd have been glad to take those exams you took at almost any time during my education. We were barely 13 when were were solving those kinds of things regurlary.
I remember doing my nationwide exams when we were finishing up high school. 15 questions, answer to 10 of them, 6 hours to do it.
Math exam, question number five "The theorem of pythagoras states that a^2+b^2=c^2. Prove the theorem."
Question 8 "Solve both parts a and b. Part a: The integral function of f(x) is 1/2cos(2x). What is f(x). Part b: solve equation (e^x)^3=e^(2x)."
Question 12: "Solve both parts. Part a: solve equation lg x + lg (x+30)=3, where lg is 10-based logarithm. Part b: Is function f(x)=ln(x+1)-ln x, x>0, monotonous? Why?"
And those were around the middle ground when it came up to difficulty. I'd been glad to to take those tests you're talking about.
EDIT: I'd have been glad to take those exams you took at almost any time during my education. We were barely 13 when were were solving those kinds of things regurlary.
It WAS easy. I'm not denying that. It was just plain boring and not-maths-like, which is a problem with Edexcel. I enjoy MATHS, not morality tests and common sense, i have none of those. But the paper was about those stupid questions that i didn't feel like I've actually used my head. I mean, EVERYONE in the bloody hall got the Cosine graph right, and that was the last questionFallToYourDeath said:
Our math teacher makes us show work for everything, and when I say everything I mean write our entire life story and how it relates to this problem blah blah fucking blah. I had to write out 18/2=9 at times at the end of problems because in the previous test I got half credit for the problem for "not showing work".xChevelle24 said:
Hmm, I'll guess that it was marked fairly too. I'm just trying to think why one particular bunch of AQA exams (the ICT ones) were marked so harshly. Seems like all the other AQA ones were fine.ellie91 said:
Oh, I took Sociology too, and I was told that if a question appeared was about something we hadn't learned, it was just the wording of the question being something unexpected or different from the practise exam papers we had - we still knew the answer even if we didn't attribute it to the question, if you get my meaning.
oh ok yeah we were taught that to it's just this question was one of the 2 mark ones asking us what compensatory education was. fingers crossed managed to guess right but yeah even the teachers didn't know. might they have been marked abit harsh if the majority of people did really well.MusicalFreedom said:
