Higher Maths Post Mortem thread

Someone here thinks they only dropped about 6 marks, and a lot of people say "oh that integration question was just throwing marks at you". In an exam situation, I blanked and completely forgot how to do that type of question, and did pretty much everything wrong!!

You'll always get people like that though, it's dead annoying but you have to get used to it! Yeah i came out and thought i had it wrong too because like my whole year had integrated it five times and i had only done it twice so i was like crap ten marks down the drain! Did you do any of the question at all? Because if you wrote down stuff you'll get marks for it :O

I did, but instead of doing two intergrations, and then adding them, I did it between 3 and -2 and just intergrated them in one intergration adding them together. I'm ****ed!!!

You wouldn't lose ten marks for that, you'd at least get four! So you aren't ****ed I think you'll have done much better than you think you've done What were you hoping for?

Really? Thank you!! Well, I was hoping for atleast a C, but aiming for a B, but that has gone out the window now!!! I think if I get a C I would be really happy, because maths isn't my strong point at all.

Yep It's actually amazing the amount of marks you pick up even when you've got the question wrong I'm sure you'll definitely pass and you never know, you may get that B you hoped for so don't worry about it, it's done and dusted! Do you take higher physics by any chance? Cause i'm screwed for that :L

Thanks for the confidence boost! only need SG maths at 1 for what I want to do, which is what I have, so its not a disaster if i fail. Noo, one maths- based subject was enough for me, much more into more essay- based subjects!! Good luck with it though, I hear physics is really hard!! I'm sure you'll do brilliantly, you seem to have done very well in maths!!

It was absurd to give 9 marks for that circles question. Considering the steps were: Find centre and radius from standard form circle equation, use distance formula, use simple inequation, it should have been worth 5 marks at most.

Please see where I would allocate marks - as some have been asking. They are by no means official - I have just got an educated guess and this is basically where i think you will get marks. Even looking over it a few times I could move a few of the marks up/down the working so no fretting!!

True, but the key differing point is that it was not at all obvious that these are the things you had to do. In a sense I think they are giving extra marks for problem solving and forming a clear strategy.

Right I think I'll do Paper 1 soon just for completeness.

I found that Circles question harder than the final question of my Advanced Higher exam actually! The Advanced Higher one, despite being 13 marks, told you how to get started and helped you throughout. This one gave you very little information.

Out of interest, could I still pick up a few marks for working if I integrated my answer from 6a in 6b, but forgot to change my degrees into radians in a so didn't do so in b until after i'd integrated it? I didn't get the right answer because i messed up arithmetically but would i still get maybe 1 or 2 marks if there's evidence of trying to solve for t in the right domain (using the CAST diagram)?

thanks

scrap that, i also screwed up the integration (that must have been the 'arithmetic error' XD) any chance of 1 or 2 marks even for attempting to solve t afterwards?

Marked mine and everything seems right apart from one stupid mistake I made resulting in losing 2 marks , probably the most annoying thing ever! But anyway , mark should hopefully be high 90s, possibly 95-98. And I kinda disagree with most people, I thought it was wayyyy easier than pretty much every past paper ive done!