AQA Maths Pure Core 1 MPC1 Jan 13th 2012

No, you are right.

I put the vertex= (x,-16)(can't remember waht x is) so therefore y=-16 do u think I will get the mark for this?

Also for the very last question I used the quadratic formula. I got -6/8 and 8/6... I forgot to simplify that into -3/4 and 4/3 > Do you think they'll drop a mark here? :/

Well I tried to factorise it out by polynomial division and got in a general twist,thinking I was being clever I just made up some values of d and c and put them into the equation,used polynomial division thinking I could get 1 mark

Seems so obvious now that I look at it,but to understand the second part the "easy gcse" you had to do the first part of putting p(3) into the equation

Kicking myself for it-dropped 6 on that

Still think I only dropped 15-18,but u know that ain't an A which is what i've been looking for and what i've got consistently on past papers :\ but hey life can only get better!

See on today's paper I thought the Polynomials question wasn't too bad, it took me a bit of thinking though. I was disheartended that there were no questions such as re-writing the polynomial in the form $(x+a)(x^2+bx+c)$. I'm very good at doing the division. They are also very standard questions that usually come up...

As per usual, the integration question was absolutely horrible and came out with nasty fractions for me, I gave up on it sadly.

One thing I was also disappointed about was how most of the questions were more 'puzzles' that required a lot of unusual thinking rather than straight forward knowing and applying a rule. Especially the inequalities ones!

- Dan

well first question was to sub it f(-2) because it is aid (x+2) will give a remainder of -150

f(x)=x3+cx2+dx-12=-150

so first question answer is 2c - d + 65 = 0

Second was (x-3) is a factor

f(3)=27+9c+3d-12=0

so it would be 3c+d+5=0

thats the question before the c and d question

Well, in fact I think it went a lot worse now..
But I'm sure you've done a lot, lot better than me and then you think you have.. Same for the surds, the third question somehow threw me off. :/ How did you get that for k? I had NO idea how to do it, and kept trying to factorise it!
And it was only TWO marks as well.. Also took me longer to do than any other ones I did before, I was still writing a minute after they said 'Stop writing now'

I put the vertex= (x,-16)(can't remember waht x is) so therefore y=-16 do u think I will get the mark for this?

Omg, I'm ****ing retarded piece of ****, kill me.... ****ing faggot. (me). I'm sorry I just had to reveal my stress. What I did was I got 9c + 3d +15 = 0 and I haven't simplified I left it like that. ****ing faggot
And then I used 2c - d + 65 and 9c +3d + 15
Multiplied the first one by 3 to get 6c -3d = - 195 and added this to 9c +3d = -15
to get 15c = -210 to get c = ...? What? The ****? c = - 14?? wtf? and then I substituted it into 2c - d = - 65 to get 2*-14 - d = -65 => -28 -d = -65 => -d = - 37 and d = 37... THE HELL?? OMG OMG? SO I GOT IT RIGHT? WTF xD I I actually remembered that I got -28 and I was a bit confused for a second, as I had to move it to other side and I was tired in the morning so I was thinking what was it... OMG SO I ACTUALLY GOT THE RIGHT ANSWER AND AFTER THE EXAM I FORGOT IT? LOL xD After the exam I forgot the right answer and was thinking it was 14 and 93? lool. xDDDDDDDDD I hope I actually got -14 and 37, but as far as I see I did, because I remembered all the time that second equation had + 15 so **** yeah it all makes sense now and I remembered all the steps.

I'm sorry everyone for LQ post with too much swearing and bad grammar but I just went mad for thinking I got the question wrong, but after checking up I found out that I'm 90% right but it's just my memory is crap as I forgot what answers I got. But then why did I think about 14 and 93 which I thought I wrote down, also they fit into the first equation?? omg... 65+28 = 93... So there's a lot in common, flipping heck I started to panic again.. Now I don't know what I wrote down for c and d why???

omg... 65+28 = 93... So there's a lot in common, flipping heck I started to panic again.. Now I don't know what I wrote down for c and d why???

Same - oh God. I felt so panicked after an hour had passed (since previously I've finished by then) when she said 5 minutes remaining I felt so scared to check everything; there's nothing worse than noticing you've done an entire question wrong in the last few minutes.

But you are wonderful, you know that right? I miss our talks.

Same - oh God. I felt so panicked after an hour had passed (since previously I've finished by then) when she said 5 minutes remaining I felt so scared to check everything; there's nothing worse than noticing you've done an entire question wrong in the last few minutes.

But you are wonderful, you know that right? I miss our talks.

Hey I've read a lot of the post that have been posted recently and everyone seems to think that they have done terribly!! Am I the only who thinks it was easy? When I finished, I had 20mins left to check the paper!! Also, I was the only who had actually taken the Core 1 exam this January since I'm in year 12 (AS Level) and my school usually enters us in June.
The questions that I felt put off by was the first question because of the fact that the gradient seemed wrong but after checking 3 or 4 times I realised that I was correct. Also, the width question where everyone seems to get 0<x<8 (wrong answer I believe) confused me but I went over it at the end with confidence. The rest of the paper was quite easy in my perception, considering the fact that I have done 5 past papers averaging 93%.

There was a question on rectange where length was (x+4) and width was (x), asked to find area to get a quadratic inequality. Then it asked to write down the values x could be. I just wrote down all the positive values, is this correct? Or were they expecting an inequality?

so you got reckon you got 100%?? what did you put for width of garden?