OCR Decision 1 - 24 May 2012

Just say I got a high C in D1, and A in everything else and mid 90% in c2 and c3. Could I still get an A*.

To get an A* in Mathematics, you need an average of 80% in C1, C2 and applied modules and an average of 90% in C3 and C4.

So I just need to get an very high 80's mark in M1 and I have an A.

Its annoying that I have a flood of D1 past papers with really high scores, and that's all I can do in the exam.

So I just need to get an very high 80's mark in M1 and I have an A.

Its annoying that I have a flood of D1 past papers with really high scores, and that's all I can do in the exam.

My tutor told me that if in addition, if you don't get 70% or over in all your exams, you can't get the A*.

Well your tutor needs to fix up !

It doesn't matter whether you get 50% in one module, as long as the other ones make your average 80% or above, you get an A. And like I've said, the additional requirement for the A* is the 90% average in C3 and C4.

This is all explained in great detail in the specification on the ocr website btw

one of the most awkward d1 papar i have done. c1 and c2 went well, and all the sudden until this paper ... i don't like the linear programming question as they didn't give give you the precise feasible coordinates, except one out of 4. the algebra method didn't seem to work, so i have to judge the coodinates by visual :s

Yeah same here. Btw, you made the equations of the lines you worked out in the first part equal to each other if you didn't know hope it went okay otherwise

Just say I got a high C in D1, and A in everything else and mid 90% in c2 and c3. Could I still get an A*.

thanks for the reply, i think i started with simultaneous equations then i messed up and thought that would take too long and instead i judge the values from the graph...and i think i also messed up the last question s,t,u bit in the simplex one, did you pivot from x when doing the 2nd iteration? but overall i think i did quite badly partly due to panicking, b grade would be lucky. hope yours went well

Part i when you put in x=0 was 6 marks, part ii with x=1 was 1 mark, part iii with x=-1 was 5 marks, part iv with why is it crap, 1 mark



If no-ones made it by tomorrow I'll be trying to make one looking at what people got on here, but there's a little bit of disagreement, esp over the nearest neighbour... wondering, did the guys who got 600 definitely start at M and remember to connect T back to M at the end?

i think i got 600 sounds familiar and on the starting one she had to start from the odd nodes not M(because u made them even) so u cant start from there because u had to cover every arc so u had to start from the odd node and end up at the other odd node inother words it was semi eurlarian for that bit i think it was R and W that were odd

No worries, yeah the time issue was quite distracting to be honest :P and yes, the second iteration I think was the X column, can't entirely remember. All I know is that I ended up with 2 for s, and 0 for the other two slack variables. Can't remember what P was, sorry :P and yeah thanks, mine went alright, feeling slightly better now that everyone is saying it was hard, pretty much guaranteed to have low boundaries, if that makes you happier

same...hopefully low boundaries (fingers crossed) however i really want an A in alevel maths this summer. and i have got c3 and c4 coming up in june :s as i want to study further maths next year. And i don't want to see just because i didn't do well in this paper, it will ruin my results since im pretty confident with c1 and c2.

Yeah, let's hope so I really don't want it to screw me over, I'm already taking 7 this year so hopefully I'll be able to pull up the average anyway but yeah plus I'll need good results if I'm thinking of Cambridge :P Ahh, I take further maths across the two years, instead of maths this year and further maths next year. Means I do c2, c3, d1, d2, m1, m2, fp1 this year (did C1 before) and c4,m3,s1,s2,s3,fp2,fp3 next year and I might do s4 depends on how hard stats is.... just a disproportionate amount of applied modules I wish I did it your way instead :P

wow...that's quite a bit of pressure ! yeah i think we only do 12 units in total for M and FM across the two years, normal maths units 1st year, then the fp/m2 etc stuff next year. now the applied modules seem to be the one that i dislike the most, btw have you done any mechanics/d2 yet? if yes were they any good? however im not thinking of oxbridge, thus i would be happy to get AB OR AA in both M and FM.