The big fat STEP megathread (NOT for getting help with maths questions)

Harder than arguably one of the hardest STEP II papers in recent years? Sounds interesting. I really want to see what the paper was like.

I don't think it was as hard as STEP II (I didn't sit STEP II but I have seen the paper). The tricky thing was that it was hard to get full, complete solutions for questions, but some questions were certainly manageable.

Reply 2921

Bork

Original post by Farhan.Hanif93

Harder than arguably one of the hardest STEP II papers in recent years? Sounds interesting. I really want to see what the paper was like.

The paper is here http://www.mediafire.com/?5z6pqal73r6wrmn
In case you didn't see it (courtesy of implus in the STEP I thread)

It was nowhere near as hard as the STEP II paper in my opinion, but perhaps that's because I did a lot more STEP I than STEP II (~15 papers vs ~5 papers).

Reply 2922

Slowbro93

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I think I would have done, 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8 and 13

Reply 2923

Bork

Is there any point of the "3" grade in STEP?
I've never seen it asked for before, although I may be wrong and to be honest I would be equally disappointed at getting a 3 or a U (as both would mean I missed my university offer).

(edited 12 years ago)

Reply 2924

anttooking

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Original post by Bork

Is there any point of the "3" grade in STEP?
I've never seen it asked for before, although I may be wrong and to be honest I would be equally disappointed at getting a 3 or a U (as both would mean I missed my university offer).

Perhap its designed to leave you feeling slightly less terible than when you get a U. :smile:

Reply 2925

Generic.Username

Original post by Bork

Is there any point of the "3" grade in STEP?
I've never seen it asked for before, although I may be wrong and to be honest I would be equally disappointed at getting a 3 or a U (as both would mean I missed my university offer).

I don't know but I'm so glad they do - I had a really bad II paper and think I got a 3 after consistently getting 1's in mocks. Seeing a U after all that work would just kill me inside :tongue:

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tobyc

Does anyone know what time our results become available online? Is it at midnight?

Reply 2927

Slowbro93

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Original post by tobyc

Does anyone know what time our results become available online? Is it at midnight?

yes

Reply 2928

Farhan.Hanif93

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Original post by tobyc

Does anyone know what time our results become available online? Is it at midnight?

Yes.

Reply 2929

tobyc

Original post by cpdavis

yes

Original post by Farhan.Hanif93

Yes.

Thanks

Reply 2930

Give

SimonM

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Please could you update the first post to include 2009, 2010 & 2011?

Thanks.

Reply 2931

L'art pour l'art

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Are all STEP papers likely to take place different dates next year? Apparently, that only happened this year.

Reply 2932

Thrug

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Original post by L'art pour l'art

Are all STEP papers likely to take place different dates next year? Apparently, that only happened this year.

I reckon it might be the start of a new tradition :tongue:

Reply 2933

Farhan.Hanif93

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Original post by L'art pour l'art

Are all STEP papers likely to take place different dates next year? Apparently, that only happened this year.

No one can say, unfortunately. I doubt Cambridge Assessment have even considered this yet. :p:

This year was an outlier in terms of the exam dates, however. The first year that we've been able to take all 3 STEP paper in a single year.

Reply 2934

Zuzuzu

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At STEP school Siklos said that the reason they're allowing people to take all 3 STEP papers is on request from Warwick. I doubt it'll be a single year thing, really.

Reply 2935

Dirac Spinor

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I was thinking, does anyone have a favourite STEP question, i.e. over all the years are there any questions that stick out in your mind as being very nice?
Also, on a similar note, are there any super hard ones that you remember?

Reply 2936

Slowbro93

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Original post by ben-smith

I was thinking, does anyone have a favourite STEP question, i.e. over all the years are there any questions that stick out in your mind as being very nice?
Also, on a similar note, are there any super hard ones that you remember?

Well there was this one question (I think it was STEP III) where I really liked, as the area under the curve would tend to infinity as you increase the limit to infinity, but the volume tends towards 2 pi

Super hard, for me it was STEP III 2011 (which I got a 3 :tongue:

)

Reply 2937

jonnyboy1993

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Original post by cpdavis

Well there was this one question (I think it was STEP III) where I really liked, as the area under the curve would tend to infinity as you increase the limit to infinity, but the volume tends towards 2 pi

Super hard, for me it was STEP III 2011 (which I got a 3 :tongue:

)

I really liked that question, and then there was the one in III a few years back which said let

p=\frac{dy}{dx}

or something similar and then got you to solve DEs in p to solve them for y. That's probably my favourite.

As far as difficult questions go, just about any III question requiring induction. For some reason I could never make them work...

Reply 2938

anonanon123123

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I wrote a poem about the "tethered goat" question from 2006 STEP I.

Oh little STEP goat,
So joyful and so shy;
Eating all the grass you can,
Never more than fourteen pi.

I intend to expand on this, perhaps developing into a full sonnet some time during my life.
Original comment http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showpost.php?p=25673143&postcount=27

Reply 2939

Slowbro93

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Original post by jonnyboy1993

I really liked that question, and then there was the one in III a few years back which said let

p=\frac{dy}{dx}

or something similar and then got you to solve DEs in p to solve them for y. That's probably my favourite.

As far as difficult questions go, just about any III question requiring induction. For some reason I could never make them work...