S1 May 2012 - Post Exam Thread - Paper and Solutions in the FIRST POST

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  1. 007Shella's Avatar
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    Re: S1 May 2012 - Post Exam Thread - Paper and Solutions in the FIRST POST
    (Original post by Arsey)
    Solutions now in the first post
    THANK YOU SO MUCH !

    MUCH APPRECIATED !

    I remember you posted the gcse one last year too! thanks again !
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    Re: S1 May 2012 - Post Exam Thread - Paper and Solutions in the FIRST POST
    any ideas on grade boundaries?
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    I enjoyed the histogram question, you use interpolation for the median right?

    Probability caused me problems though.
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    (Original post by Arsey)
    Solutions now in the first post
    Any idea of the boundaries?
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    Re: S1 May 2012 - Post Exam Thread - Paper and Solutions in the FIRST POST
    As I predicted, the only thing wrong for me was the histogram question. And I hope I didn't make any silly errors on other questions.
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    I don't think I got any of that histogram question except for maybe the first part. The mean really threw me off! I ended up spending 10 minutes only to find I had counted up 450 again which was the given anyway!
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    I thought it went ok, but Statistics is really hit and miss for me. I find I make so many little mistakes, and they aren't as generous with follow through marks as they are on say the Mechanics papers.
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    FINALLY, at least one good paper! Thanks arsey
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    For the venn diagram question, does it matter if you proved independence by shrinking the sample space so W was excluded, so you only had T, B and t'b' and showed that they still were independent by the same method you used?
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    Re: S1 May 2012 - Post Exam Thread - Paper and Solutions in the FIRST POST
    Actually scared to look at the paper :/
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    (Original post by Jack74)
    Easiest paper I've done in my life apart from maybe Unit 2 Chemistry GCSE , only thing i got wrong i think was drawing the regression line on the graph and the skew of the data i got mixed up. :/
    Ahhh the only thing I messed up was plotting the regression line too! So annoyinggg
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    Think I got 67. All correct except my histrogram.
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    Re: S1 May 2012 - Post Exam Thread - Paper and Solutions in the FIRST POST
    I don't want to look at the answers in case I spot silly mistakes
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    ****..... xD
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    Re: S1 May 2012 - Post Exam Thread - Paper and Solutions in the FIRST POST
    Say i did the pmcc wrong but i sigma xy over the root of sxx x syy would i get a mark or no marks at all?

    and for 5.e. if i wrote median because it is not effected by extreme value or outliers will i get the mark?
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    Re: S1 May 2012 - Post Exam Thread - Paper and Solutions in the FIRST POST
    (Original post by InadequateJusticex)
    Actually scared to look at the paper :/
    THIS aha, I opened it and looked at the last question, then realised that I can't actually remember quite a few of my answers...
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    Ahh crap, I made a mistake and concluded that P(B) and P(T) were independent. Oh well, at least I should get the rest of the marks. Any predictions for the grade boundaries? And if I put that there is positive linear correlation and that as p increases so does t, is that enough to get the marks for why a linear regression model would be suitable?
    Last edited by und; 19-05-2012 at 00:15.
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    Had a total mindblank on the histogram. Didn't even think to count the mother-fudging squares Too scared to look at the rest - the fact that I'm guaranteed to have dropped at least 10 marks just from that makes me too fearful of how I'll feel if I've dropped a lot of others :/
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    Well I got 61/75, to say I was convinced stats would ruin my life, not bad, haha
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    Re: S1 May 2012 - Post Exam Thread - Paper and Solutions in the FIRST POST
    Hey two questions, if anyone can answer i'd appreciate it a lot:

    1. For question 4a i gave two examples which were (B n W) and (T n W) . Each one is correct but would i be marked down for giving two? i got the explanation correct btw...

    2. For question 5e would i get away by saying that the data is almost symmetrical and therefore it would be appropriate to use the mean? Also for question 5d i said the distribution was symmetrical for the same reasons above, again would i get the marks?

    Thank you
    Last edited by koolkid1011; 19-05-2012 at 00:17.
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