STEP 2016 Solutions

Hey guys,

I just registered on this page and I've got two questions I'd be grateful for an answer to:

1) How many points do you think part iii) of problem 5 and last line of problem 12 will be worth, respectively?

2) Did you also find this STEP significantly harder than all the recent ones, or was it just the effect time and psychological pressure had on me? At home, on a mock I did, I did much better.

3) "Fun question" - what do you think will be the least popular problem?

I need to get a 1 here and I'd lie if I said I didn't expect to manage, but hearing this from someone else would make me feel much calmer - that's just how I am. I'm not trying to humble-brag and I'm really sympathetic for people who will turn out to have done worse than me.

Cause other than problems 5 & 12 I'm hoping for about 70-80 points for other 4 problems. I'm hoping to only lose a few points for not explaining everything thoroughly enough - I was in a real hurry, but I'm pretty sure that the solutions were right.

Cheers

Cant answer your first question sorry
I believe the general consensus is that it was an average paper
Probably Question 10. Statistics seemed to have had more attempts than usual and the other two mechanics seem popular on here. None of the pure were especially off putting (probably because of no geometry)

q10 was the easiest mech question imo, it was basically just finding the centre of mass of the triangle

Alternate solution to STEP II Q7 (iv).

Alternate one which I'm surprised no one else did:
IBP with x and 1/cosx(cosx+sinx), antiderivative of 1/cosx(cosx+sinx) is ln(1+tanx), result follows.

Hey guys,

I just registered on this page and I've got two questions I'd be grateful for an answer to:

1) How many points do you think part iii) of problem 5 and last line of problem 12 will be worth, respectively?

2) Did you also find this STEP significantly harder than all the recent ones, or was it just the effect time and psychological pressure had on me? At home, on a mock I did, I did much better.

3) "Fun question" - what do you think will be the least popular problem?

I need to get a 1 here and I'd lie if I said I didn't expect to manage, but hearing this from someone else would make me feel much calmer - that's just how I am. I'm not trying to humble-brag and I'm really sympathetic for people who will turn out to have done worse than me.

Cause other than problems 5 & 12 I'm hoping for about 70-80 points for other 4 problems. I'm hoping to only lose a few points for not explaining everything thoroughly enough - I was in a real hurry, but I'm pretty sure that the solutions were right.

Cheers

well done!

Thanks! I hope I haven't done any super silly mistakes I couldn't notice. How did it go for you?

A bit late for this post,

But for STEP 1's question 2, if I differentiate the given giant equation correctly, and manage to solve part (ii) correctly using an FP3 substitution (let x=sinhu) is that acceptable?

I failed to solve part (i) and part (iii) completely. How many marks should I get out of 20 for that, you guys think, approximately?

A bit late for this post,

But for STEP 1's question 2, if I differentiate the given giant equation correctly, and manage to solve part (ii) correctly using an FP3 substitution (let x=sinhu) is that acceptable?

I failed to solve part (i) and part (iii) completely. How many marks should I get out of 20 for that, you guys think, approximately?

Alternate one which I'm surprised no one else did:
IBP with x and 1/cosx(cosx+sinx), antiderivative of 1/cosx(cosx+sinx) is ln(1+tanx), result follows.

sorry i had not asked, how did the exam go for you? hope it went well.

Oh thanks, it went ok. Zacken said my scores added up to about 90, which is good (but not an S I don't think). I only got one full though, but hopefully I've scraped as many marks as possible in my partials.

How about you? S perhaps?

Yeh S perhaps. Got 4 fulls and a few partials hoping it adds to 95 but most likely on the lower side of 90 which probably won't be an S.


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Was the offer S,1? Either way I think if you get a 1 in III they'd probably accept you, I mean they're unlikely to accept a 2,1 or a 1,2 as opposed to a 1,1 from you even if your offer was S,1.

Oh thanks, it went ok. Zacken said my scores added up to about 90, which is good (but not an S I don't think). I only got one full though, but hopefully I've scraped as many marks as possible in my partials.

How about you? S perhaps?

I also have the habit of not finishing last parts of questions due to timing myself to spend max 30 minutes on each question. I am thinking of changing my exam technique for STEP III though, or at least making sure I do last parts in 30-35 minutes. I feel like getting 6 solutions down is more beneficial than not finishing last parts of the questions, as long as last parts are not worth as much, so not gonna go my way to spending more than 35 minutes on each question otherwise I would risk getting only 5 solutions on my script. What do you think?


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