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What topic do these questions come under?

http://prntscr.com/b40yqg
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Zacken
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Geometry/shapes/areas and volumes
Q 20 is surface area of 3D shapes.
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junayd1998
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Original post by Zacken
Geometry/shapes/areas and volumes


The only formula they don't give you is the area of the cylinder.. Why Edexcel why, another thing to remember ffs
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Original post by junayd1998
The only formula they don't give you is the area of the cylinder.. Why Edexcel why, another thing to remember ffs

Don't forget the volume of a pyramid.

That often catches students out when it appears on a GCSE paper.
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Original post by notnek
Don't forget the volume of a pyramid.

That often catches students out when it appears on a GCSE paper.


Is that even worth learning lmao, iv done all past papers and have not seen once the volume of a pyramid pop up lmao
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Original post by junayd1998
Is that even worth learning lmao, iv done all past papers and have not seen once the volume of a pyramid pop up lmao
.

Yes definitely - it's not a hard formula to remember.

It's come up a few times over the last 5-10 years. E.g. November 2012 Q23 : Only 0.6% of all students got full marks on that question.

By the way, it's worth looking at the papers at the bottom of here. They show the worst answered questions from recent years.
(edited 7 years ago)
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Original post by notnek
Yes definitiely - it's not a hard formula to remember.

It's come up a few times over the last 5-10 years. E.g. November 2012 Q23 : Only 0.6% of all students got full marks on that question.
Oh okay il make sure to remember it then. Have you seen the formula for the area of a pyramid haha . Imagine if you had to remember that.
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Original post by notnek
Yes definitely - it's not a hard formula to remember.

It's come up a few times over the last 5-10 years. E.g. November 2012 Q23 : Only 0.6% of all students got full marks on that question.

By the way, it's worth looking at the papers at the bottom of here. They show the worst answered questions from recent years.




http://prntscr.com/b41yhi wow only 8.7% answered it correctly
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Original post by junayd1998
http://prntscr.com/b41yhi wow only 8.7% answered it correctly

My guess is that most people didn't give reasons.

You would need to give 2 reasons e.g. "angles on a straight line add up to 180" and "alternate angles".

Or "opposite angles" and "adjacent angles in a parallelogram".

etc.
Original post by notnek
My guess is that most people didn't give reasons.

You would need to give 2 reasons e.g. "angles on a straight line add up to 180" and "alternate angles".

Or "opposite angles" and "corresponding angles".

etc.


Yeah prolly but such a low percentage loool
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Original post by junayd1998
Yeah prolly but such a low percentage loool

I give these papers to students and it makes them feel good when they can do a question that only 1% of the population could do :smile:
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I give these papers to students and it makes them feel good when they can do a question that only 1% of the population could do :smile:


Yeah it does feel good, but then saying that when you enter that exam hall you start panicking lmao and end up flopping the question completely .
Oh yeah quick question about the volume of a pyramid are you sure it could pop up in a 2016 paper? because hasn't the specification changed?
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Original post by junayd1998
Oh yeah quick question about the volume of a pyramid are you sure it could pop up in a 2016 paper? because hasn't the specification changed?

Yes it could. The 2016 exam follows the 2014 spec and it's in there. The spec changes next year.

http://qualifications.pearson.com/content/dam/pdf/GCSE/Mathematics%20A/2010/Specification%20and%20sample%20assessments/UG029981_GCSE_MathsA_Spec_2012.pdf

Search for "pyramids".
(edited 7 years ago)
Original post by notnek
Yes it could. The 2016 exam follows the 2014 spec and it's in there. The spec changes next year.

http://qualifications.pearson.com/content/dam/pdf/GCSE/Mathematics%20A/2010/Specification%20and%20sample%20assessments/UG029981_GCSE_MathsA_Spec_2012.pdf

Search for "pyramids".


Oh okay, is a pyramid question more likely to come on a calc paper? Or it could come on either?
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Original post by junayd1998
Oh okay, is a pyramid question more likely to come on a calc paper? Or it could come on either?

Either.

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