Current Year 12 Thread Mark V

Why? What do you want to do for uni?

Thanks anyway, Arva How ya been?

I would show it to you know. But there is no margin

If you note. The SUVAT equations are, or can be, derived from calculus. You are never penalised for knowing more than is required.

Really? Because this is what I was worrying over.

Indeed. As long as you don't go loco and use 3rd year uni maths, you'll be fine.

Markschemes only contain anticipated and common approaches - cases like these are dealt with individually

Hope this helps

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Really? Because this is what I was worrying over.

The markscheme doesn't seem to credit (or at least mention) the use of calculus. So if I were to make some silly accuracy error I think I'd lose all the method marks. I've asked some teachers who seem to think it's better if I don't use calculus in light of this and that if I were to use calculus the examiner would assume I'm resitting the unit.

It would be nice though; it's far faster.

Indeed. As long as you don't go loco and use 3rd year uni maths, you'll be fine.

Markschemes only contain anticipated and common approaches - cases like these are dealt with individually

Hope this helps

C3 and C4 calculus makes C1 and C2 calculus so much easier - am I allowed to use the product, quotient and chain rules etc to solve AS questions? The same goes for the scalar product and Mechanics 1 vector questions.

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It would be nice though; it's far faster.

Personally I wouldn't risk it. You may or may not get method marks if you are wrong.

I don't see any real need to, but if its correct, I don't see why they'd not give you the marks. I'm fairly sure you still get all the marks for getting the end answer unless it specifically says "Show that...".
Not sure I've seen any aside from the trapezium rule questions (in which case you'd get 0 marks for working out the exact answer, unless you were only doing it to check you were in the right ballpark), or those tagged onto a binomial expansion question that you could really use them on.
As far as I remember the majority of it in C1 and C2 was straight forward.

C3 and C4 calculus makes C1 and C2 calculus so much easier - am I allowed to use the product, quotient and chain rules etc to solve AS questions? The same goes for the scalar product and Mechanics 1 vector questions.

Thanks for the advice. I loathe the trapezium rule. In C4, with all the new integration techniques we learn, it is absolutely pointless, a sort of filler to add marks to the test.

Can't complain though, it's a guaranteed 6 or so marks.

The trapiziem rule is a waste we did it in core 2 the day before our exam, all you have to do is understand what the equation in the formula booklet means and punch in some numbers.

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Hey, how are your a-levels going?

Hi. They're good thanks (apart from that pesky C4 trig integration section). How about yours?