MEI M1 exam discussion - Friday 1st June

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  1. dark sage's Avatar
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    Re: MEI M1 exam discussion - Friday 1st June
    (Original post by xiyangliu)
    What value did u use ?? 9.81 ?


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    i didnt use G what so ever. my forces were mass*sin(a) thats it. i forgot 9.8 in my working and got wrong answers
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    (Original post by dark sage)
    i didnt use G what so ever. my forces were mass*sin(a) thats it. i forgot 9.8 in my working and got wrong answers
    What !?!!!!! How ..... I dnt knw. I am not sure. U might get the method mark .....


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    Re: MEI M1 exam discussion - Friday 1st June
    (Original post by xiyangliu)
    I didn't knw what they were asking.. But resultant force should be 0 cuz they told u that the block was in equailibrium . Therefore no resultant force.
    that sounds right actually, didnt think of that
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    (Original post by xiyangliu)
    What !?!!!!! How ..... I dnt knw. I am not sure. U might get the method mark .....


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    i am so confused right now, of all the silly mistakes i could had done i made this one
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    (Original post by dark sage)
    i am so confused right now, of all the silly mistakes i could had done i made this one
    Dear.. Dnt kick yourself over it.. Get ready for your next exam.. What's done is done (is it Macbeth?) good luck to your rest exams


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    Re: MEI M1 exam discussion - Friday 1st June
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    that sounds right actually, didnt think of that
    Not 100% sure but it was a 2 mark question so there should be some maths in it. But besides that I think the question was worded "what is the resultant force from the floor". Its only the resultant force on the body that was zero, the floor still had to supply the Friction and the Reaction to keep the block in equilibrium?
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    (Original post by dark sage)
    i am so confused right now, of all the silly mistakes i could had done i made this one
    Ugh i did the same thing, i used 800000 * (1/80) for the weight down the slope. This meant i got the acceleration in the wrong direction too =-(. Thankfully the rest of the paper was okay.
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    Re: MEI M1 exam discussion - Friday 1st June
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    Well, that was awful. Damn mechanics
    This. M1 was quite possibly the most boring exam I've had to prepare for this year.
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    Re: MEI M1 exam discussion - Friday 1st June
    (Original post by JumpingFrog)
    Not 100% sure but it was a 2 mark question so there should be some maths in it. But besides that I think the question was worded "what is the resultant force from the floor". Its only the resultant force on the body that was zero, the floor still had to supply the Friction and the Reaction to keep the block in equilibrium?
    true, i dont remember exactly how it was worded, but i just presumed it meant all the forces from the floor on the block, sometimes when its worded weird they give you a mark if you fall into the trap and do it wrong haha
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    (Original post by JumpingFrog)
    Not 100% sure but it was a 2 mark question so there should be some maths in it. But besides that I think the question was worded "what is the resultant force from the floor". Its only the resultant force on the body that was zero, the floor still had to supply the Friction and the Reaction to keep the block in equilibrium?
    Hm... I dnt think I got that right anyway. The question was weird


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    Re: MEI M1 exam discussion - Friday 1st June
    Bump
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    That was bloody awful!
  13. nju's Avatar
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    Re: MEI M1 exam discussion - Friday 1st June
    any ideas on grade boundaries and what did people get for the last part of the last question
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    (Original post by nju)
    any ideas on grade boundaries and what did people get for the last part of the last question
    4 km


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    What did people get for the boat race where you had to plot the graph??
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    Re: MEI M1 exam discussion - Friday 1st June
    Really downed by this exam. I did reasonably in the past papers but this just took me out completely. I was hoping for a 15 mark section on projectiles or something but we only got 7 marks for it. The last questions with the boat races were awful and so were the questions with the 17 trucks or something. Nasty exam. Well at least for me anyway, others may have liked it.
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    Re: MEI M1 exam discussion - Friday 1st June
    i hope 55 ish is an A :/
    how did everyone find it ?
    i didnt like it one bit
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    Re: MEI M1 exam discussion - Friday 1st June
    I actually quite liked it, I was glad there wasn't anything with loads of pulleys and weights. I think the locomotive question was fine once you'd realised you had to convert from tonnes into kg, my friend forgot and got acceleration as like 100 ms^-2 :L

    I definitely found it more wordy than the past papers I've done though, what with applying a 0 resultant to a situation with a particle and hiker etc.
    Last edited by Stephybob; 01-06-2012 at 12:15.
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    (Original post by Just Josh)
    Really downed by this exam. I did reasonably in the past papers but this just took me out completely. I was hoping for a 15 mark section on projectiles or something but we only got 7 marks for it. The last questions with the boat races were awful and so were the questions with the 17 trucks or something. Nasty exam. Well at least for me anyway, others may have liked it.
    I agree, I think that the truck question had numbers that were far too big to deal with, and the boat race question was very unusual.
  20. nju's Avatar
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    Re: MEI M1 exam discussion - Friday 1st June
    Hi I know this is off topic but in January I did C3 and the mark I got in the results does it include the coursework mark?
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