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Reply 40

Skilled

Original post by bong

Boundaries must be high for this one

according to me it was a good paper :smile:

, but still don't want boundaries to be high :frown:

I got 2.12 :smile:

Yess i got all correct!!!!!!!!

Reply 43

Praami

hated the proof bit ¬¬ i think i only scored one mark for that part. other than that question, it was a really goooooooooooooooooooooooood paper (Y)

Reply 44

Bread Basket

Hoping for 77 UMS so I don't have to retake any other units. No horrible questions from my end. Looking at around 85%+ but God knows what % that will end up as because to be honest I figured that the grade boundaries would be insanely high as soon as I saw the last question...

Reply 45

Prash3200165

Original post by Phoebe307

what did people get for the area under the curve or whatever it was?

57 1/6 or something like that

Reply 46

The_Pen

I also got 85mm, 364/6 and 15 for the geometric.

I got 1.2 or something for trapezium maybe it was 1.8)

Reply 47

Praami

Original post by MathMad

did anyone get the first term on the geometric series equalling to 15, the common ratio being 0.6, and the sum to infinity being 37.5? i got something like that.

yaay i got that =)

Reply 48

Mtice

Hadn't learnt the proof. :frown:

Rest was easy.

Checked the paper, everything but the proof. So at least 71, I hope.

(edited 11 years ago)

Reply 49

Sikkie

Looking at the unofficial mark scheme, I got every answer right, so will be 100ums, unless I drop stupid marks in the working out.

Reply 50

yaboy

for the trig question say you got the values 39.2,90,140.8 and missed 0 and 180 how many marks would you get?

100% woooooo :d

100

Just looked through the paper. Full marks!!!!

Reply 54

Stardust Mirage

Grade boundries are going to be so HIGH. Just hope ive not made any stupid mistakes -_-

Reply 55

pjanoo

Original post by Arsey

thanks for putting up the answers. For the trig question, I made a silly mistake and got cos2x=-1/5 rather than +1/5. I continued to work out the values using the -1/5 though, at an estimation how many marks do you think i'd lose?

Reply 56

craycray

Original post by 0range

looooool omg i did that @ the start!!!!
Somehow got 120 / 4(pi) = 30(pi)

kajenkjnaekfjkaenf thats what i got :frown:

Reply 57

oli_G

Original post by Arsey

C2 May 2012

Overall I think this was a very easy paper.

Q1 Binomial Expansion

Standard and no tricky b)

Q2 Logs

Standard, very easy

Q3 Circles

I expected a rearranging into circle form, the rest of the question was very easy, part d) was a joke

Q4 Factor Theorem

Very easy

Q5 Area under a graph by integration

Slightly harder than normal as trapeZia often cause problems

Q6 Trig

I thought this was pretty easy but I understand it has caused quite a few problems

Q7 Trapezium rule

Joke

Q8 Trig

Pretty standard, lots of frameworking.

Q9 Geometric series

I hope you learnt the proof.... rest of the question was straight forward.

I think the boundaries will be really high

Last few June boundaries were 62, 62, 53, 63, 59, 67 for 80ums

I will guess at

100ums - 75
90ums - 70
80ums - 65
70ums - 57
60ums - 50
50ums - 43
40ums - 36

This thread will be locked at somepoint and then unlocked at midnight following the Core 2 examination. I will upload the paper and my solutions to this post.

I will do my best to answer questions about the paper but please try to read the thread first so that I am not answering the same questions lots of times.Here are some links to previous D1 threads, they are worth a read and you will see what the common errors were...

C2 Jan 2012 - http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1892666

C2 June 2011 - http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1619114

The second link has loads of past papers, mark schemes, model solutions etc

Good luck.

Hi Arsey, cheers for posting a solution.

For 8)c) would it be alright leaving x as the exact answer (ie the cube root of 30 over pi)?