I had intended on doing a lot of study for this… I really did. But then I got the bright idea to go on a short cycle on Saturday which quickly turned into a 30 mile endurance test! I slept for about 15 hours and had no energy to study yesterday! So I walked into the exam hall today having only revised 2 chapters - Area and Volume and Linear Programming - and hoping that the Probability and Statistics questions would be kind to me!
I turned over the paper at 9:30 this morning and flicked straight to the Linear Programming question - my strongest question - and was immediately faced with a question that was phrased differently to those of previous years and I really choked on the question trying to figure it out for around half an hour before conceding and flicking back to the other questions in the paper.
I flew through the Area and Volume question and thankfully the probability question was simple and I reckon I got 50/50 in those two questions. I dropped a few marks in the Statistics question by mistaking the ‘median’ for the mean but I should have got around 40/50. I then attempted the rest of the paper, trying to gain as many attempt marks as possible although there were several parts to the Trigonometry and Geometry questions that I couldn’t even attempt as I didn’t know where to start!
With the rest of the paper attempted, I went back to the Linear Programming question to see if I could make heads or tails of it. I attempted it in a few different ways but just gave up - my diagram was incomplete and incorrect. I was frustrated with the question because it’s usually my “banker” question. With 3 minutes left I attempted a part C to the Further Sequences and Series question which surprisingly had a Compound Interest slant to it!
I left the exam hall a few minutes late and feeling a bit hard done by. I feel as if the phrasing of the question was more cryptic than anything else. I know that equations in disguise are a part of maths but even Sherlock Holmes would have had great difficulty in seeing through this particular guise…
Hey….yeah i found the area and volume fairly easy…the line was fine….circle has never been kind to me but i actually found it quite easy…..the trig,for me had a huge question mark over it…i hadnt a clue! FINALLY i came to the linear programming…..lets say i was more than surprised by the phrasing of it!!!after figuring out that you pu all the children (the amount) into one equation and the amount of adults in to another equation after about 3 attempts….i got it….part c kinda caught me out for a minute but then i realised that you basically do the same as part b…..
paper 1….welll!!! it was EASY!!
yeah question 11 was bent but the rest was easy
poxy