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[mollykins]

thanks for all your help, the non calculator paper was hard, but not impossible, there was a question with a grid with stuff like x + y + z = 10 then x + 2y + 3z = 28 etc etc with a grid of 9 expressions and you had to work out what x y and z were.

Plus, even though you helped me with simplifying, the last question was just that, and was impossibly hard!

[redman41]

Are you winning molly ?

[mollykins]

I counted up the marks I could of got, and if everything i wrote was right, i would get 60/70, maximum.

[mollykins]

But at least 50.

[redman41]

What's the Pass mark ?

[mollykins]

well this exam works out at 27.5% of my total maths grade and altogether you need about 50% for a c, 65% for a b, 75% for an a and 90& for an a* and so far i'm 10 marks below an a* so need to have 5 marks over the a* boundary altogether on this exam and the next one in a few days time.

[redman41]

Well do your best molly, as long as you pass it is what counts in the end.......

[mollykins]

Yeah well a pass isn't good enough i need at least a b to get onto a level maths.

[factor-fiction]

I look forward to hearing your result mollykins.
Sounds like they threw in a simultaneuos equations question.
If you found it hard, others would have found it hard too, so the pass mark will be flexed acordingly.

[mollykins]

It was hard, then it just clicked and i managed to work it out and i checked it agaisnt all the sums they gave and they worked. what made it worse was that one value was a negative number.

But the triganometry was oober difficult and i don't know how they expected us to do it without a calculator.

[vascop]

I find that a lot of students don't know things like:
sin 30=cos60=1/2
cos 30=sin 60=root(3)/2
sin 45=cos 45=root(2)/2
and so tan 30=sin 30/cos 30=1/root(3)=root(3)/3
and tan 60=sin 60/cos 60=root(3)
and tan 45=1
sin 90=1 cos 90=0
if you know these you can do a lot without a calculator and often the root(2) and root(3) bits cancel out.

[izzieamy]

Molly i did a maths non calculator paper today aswell !
I dont remember this question on the higher paper??

I found it easier than i thought ! Quite chuffed ! Only a few obsticles that i think i tackled okay ! :)

Well done moly fingers crossed for a good result ! :)

[mollykins]

We may be on different exam boards.

[vascop]

"I counted up the marks I could of got, and if everything i wrote was right, i would get 60/70, maximum."

Watch your English Molly! it should be "I could've got", short for "I could have got".