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

Been working through 2005 I yesterday evening and this afternoon and was shocked to find there were 6 questions I could answer! Normally I can only really attempt about 4. Anyone know the grade boundaries for this year, because I think I may be improving or just picked a nice paper (if there is such a thing in the land of STEP).

I'm absolutely bricking STEP 1 tomorrow, I used to think I was decent at Maths, but I'm crap. I'm going to have no calculator, no laptop, no DFranklin helping me and no M & M's to eat. Game Over.

Been working through 2005 I yesterday evening and this afternoon and was shocked to find there were 6 questions I could answer! Normally I can only really attempt about 4. Anyone know the grade boundaries for this year, because I think I may be improving or just picked a nice paper (if there is such a thing in the land of STEP).

I'm absolutely bricking STEP 1 tomorrow, I used to think I was decent at Maths, but I'm crap. I'm going to have no calculator, no laptop, no DFranklin helping me and no M & M's to eat. Game Over.

They'll have told your school or college, assuming you didn't tick the box telling them not to. The info will be in the form of a report on your interviews. You can get this report from your school or college (assuming it's in the UK) if you quote the Data Protection Act 1998.

do we get given online log ins for results tomorrow along with the test paper? i seem to remember that's kind of what the STEP website implied last time I checked...

Here are the grade boundaries since 2000. Interesting that 2009 had a relatively high S boundary for all three papers:

STEP I
..... S 1 2 3
2000 91 69 50 38
2001 85 66 50 41
2002 80 61 48 35
2003 94 78 60 43
2004 90 72 55 43
2005 96 80 62 45
2006 82 67 50 38
2007 81 66 49 36
2008 81 65 43 29
2009 95 72 58 35

STEP II
..... S 1 2 3
2000 91 65 48 32
2001 85 62 47 32
2002 90 65 40 32
2003 95 70 55 37
2004 82 60 49 36
2005 89 64 49 31
2006 85 60 49 31
2007 95 66 56 35
2008 94 69 58 35
2009 98 71 61 39

STEP III
..... S 1 2 3
2000 88 66 50 39
2001 77 59 46 32
2002 77 56 43 32
2003 77 56 43 33
2004 75 56 43 33
2005 80 59 47 35
2006 80 60 49 31
2007 86 64 52 35
2008 82 63 52 34
2009 95 67 55 38

Right, just to clear things up, I'm full on nervous about tomorrow and I think I'm being really thick on a question. Can someone help me please?

Can someone possibly explain WHY you would use the double tan formula on 2008/II/4 for the show $tan \theta = a |y^2-x^2|$ bit? I think I'm being stupid but I can't see why at all. (probably some GCSE angle rule now, and I'll feel really embarassed )

Today was a fail...couldnt do anything...

FML

Questions 1,3,4,5,7,8? Those are the one's I did when I attempted it. I genuinely hope we get lucky this year and have reasonable papers (although it's looking unlikely as it appeared the papers were easier last cycle so this time they'll likely be harder as a direct result )