OCR FP1 Friday May 16th 2014

Sitting it as well. Should be okay I think... I find it a bit weird that Further maths is before C1😂

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You guys seem so calm about this, I've been doing past papers and there's stuff that still eludes me.

Relegated to getting a rubbish result in this (usually high grade boundaries) and M2 now. :frown:

Reply 4

I know the grade boundaries can be stupidly high! I've seen 63 for an A!

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Probably as people who are good at maths usually take further, and FP1 probably comes across as very easy to them.

I find normal maths relatively straight forward but FP1 and M2 have been challenging for me this year - kinda regret taking the subject but I've found it very interesting regardless.

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C1 and C2 are a piece of piss compared to fp1!:L hopefully the exam won't be to hard:-)

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Anyone know what the determinant means in terms of the transformation of the unit square into some sort of parallelogram? I have some idea but teacher didn't really go over it so you know...

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Knowing

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Original post by Tomh97

Anyone know what the determinant means in terms of the transformation of the unit square into some sort of parallelogram? I have some idea but teacher didn't really go over it so you know...

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Determinant = area scale factor of the transformation

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So what types of questions are you guys hoping to see in the paper?

Hopefully an easy 12 marks for the series & proof question. :wink:

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Not sure really. The thing I wouldn't want to come up is matrix transformations... They're alright but prefer everything else by a mile!

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Ed Sev

Induction is the worst

Reply 12

I actually quite like induction proofs:L

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Ed Sev

Only a fan if its summation or a matrix one

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stirkee

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Looking forward to this exam tomorrow, normally takes me about 25 minutes to finish each paper :P

For anyone who is worried, just take your time. I find the FP1 exams to be very short in comparison to other modules, you've plenty of time.

For the guy above who mentioned matrix transformations, I find it easier to always draw the unit square and the transformation from the matrix given so I can really see what's going on.

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Yeah that's what I do; can't be bothered to remember the general formulae for shears, stretches etc. the only one I remember is enlargements

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stirkee

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Original post by Tomh97

Yeah that's what I do; can't be bothered to remember the general formulae for shears, stretches etc. the only one I remember is enlargements

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Yeah same, I can't be bothered either. Its far easier to draw the new unit square and just see what's going on rather than trying to remember the individual matrices.

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Original post by stirkee

Yeah same, I can't be bothered either. Its far easier to draw the new unit square and just see what's going on rather than trying to remember the individual matrices.

Exactly. Gives a better understanding as well I think.

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