[Elysǐum]

(Original post by DamoclesAustria)

I've just found - it turned out it wasn't even a problem from STEP...

I can't blame you. That sheet is very 'stepy'.

[Xero Xenith]

(Original post by DamoclesAustria)

I've just found - it turned out it wasn't even a problem from STEP...

Great find, thanks!

[kitkat19]

People who have done STEP.

What did you do to revise. Apart from past papers

did you have a tutor?
Did you do it all by yourself? If so HOW!!!
Did you go to the cambridge easter STEP school?
did your school give you tuition?

anything else i havent thought of. feel free to add^

and...if you don't mind then tell me what you got too

[mathsymathsy]

Can anyone give me the past step paper form 1987 t0 1999 pleasee

[Farhan.Hanif93]

(Original post by mathsymathsy)
Can anyone give me the past step paper form 1987 t0 1999 pleasee

Download the megapack in the first post here.

[mathsymathsy]

Thanks

[oh_1993]

has anyone here got 110+ in a STEP paper? just curious

[johnconnor92]

Do people just read through the STEP booklet Advanced Problems in Core Mathematics and start doing the past papers directly?

[kitkat19]

(Original post by johnconnor92)
Do people just read through the STEP booklet Advanced Problems in Core Mathematics and start doing the past papers directly?

I dont know but I would like to know this too....i posted here(few posts above this one) about revision techniques that people may have used but noone got back to me about this...ill just have to wait..

[Roy064]

(Original post by johnconnor92)
Do people just read through the STEP booklet Advanced Problems in Core Mathematics and start doing the past papers directly?

(Original post by kitkat19)
I dont know but I would like to know this too....i posted here(few posts above this one) about revision techniques that people may have used but noone got back to me about this...ill just have to wait..

Pretty much yeah. Although with the Siklos booklet, it's best if you have a go at the questions before reading his solution and even before reading his comments on the question as you progress.

Plowing through questions is the best preparation, then doing a few papers in exam conditions as you get closer to the exam to gauge speed/timings etc.

[zack-w]

i read already that no calculators are allowed, so does that mean that unsimplified surds are acceptable.
regarding the data sheet, can you only bring one? do you have to bring them with you on the day? i am NOT sitting the exam at my college as they don't run it, its at the local adult education center.

[Xero Xenith]

(Original post by zack-w)
i read already that no calculators are allowed, so does that mean that unsimplified surds are acceptable.
regarding the data sheet, can you only bring one? do you have to bring them with you on the day? i am NOT sitting the exam at my college as they don't run it, its at the local adult education center.

Surds are of course acceptable, but you should always simplify them when possible. (i.e. don't put when you could put )

The "data sheet" is a formula book and they should come delivered with the exam paper AFAIK. It's the same as the OCR A-level one.

[klausw]

Hi guys! How do you think about the difficulty of STEP I papers before 1994? They are the only core maths papers at that time, so are they approximately equivalent to the current STEP II papers or they are easier than the current STEP II papers? I am thinking about if I need to go through them to prepare for my STEP II. Thx!

[Xero Xenith]

(Original post by klausw)
Hi guys! How do you think about the difficulty of STEP I papers before 1994? They are the only core maths papers at that time, so are they approximately equivalent to the current STEP II papers or they are easier than the current STEP II papers? I am thinking about if I need to go through them to prepare for my STEP II. Thx!

They were the "paper I" so that would imply they're closer to STEP I. However, older papers are a bit less relevant... you might find some nice questions, but only use them if you've dried up all the recent ones IMO.

[klausw]

(Original post by Xero Xenith)
They were the "paper I" so that would imply they're closer to STEP I. However, older papers are a bit less relevant... you might find some nice questions, but only use them if you've dried up all the recent ones IMO.

Thank you!!!

[bananadude]

Does anyone know if there is any actual 'mark scheme' available for recent step papers which would show the marks available for the individual parts? I can't find any official ones but wondered if someone might have made an unofficial one?

[ben-smith]

(Original post by bananadude)
Does anyone know if there is any actual 'mark scheme' available for recent step papers which would show the marks available for the individual parts? I can't find any official ones but wondered if someone might have made an unofficial one?

No they don't release mark schemes. The best you can do is read the examiner's report.

[Stray]

Does anybody know whether there is an existing cross-reference list for Silkos's "Advanced Problems in Core Mathematics" and the past paper repository?

If there isn't, I'll make one and share it.

I've done past paper questions around specific topics and now am going through the booklet to make sure that I pick up all those that are in there and haven't already been covered.

Ta.

[Stray]

Done: A cross-reference of the APICM Silkos Booklet and the Past Papers.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...Wc&pli=1#gid=0

[james22]

Has the style of STEP questions changed over time? I just did STEP 1 on monday and it went terribly, but right now I'm doing some older STEP 1 papers and finding them really simple, almost trivial in some cases. It seems that the older one have much less alegbraic manipulation in them.