STEP Prep Thread 2015

I was given a STEP II paper at the prep class I go to, and decided to have a crack, for better or for worse. My STEP 1 is far from perfect, but I can generally speaking get 5 or 6 questions sorted on most papers.

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Quick question. I started STEP II today, and was pleased to pretty much complete questions 1 and 3 on STEP II 2008. However, I absentmindedly forgot to check a spurious set of results at the very end of question 1. Am I right to think I'd only lose a couple of marks? I appreciate no-one really knows, but it'd be nice to have a bit of an idea.

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well thats an S grade right there. i would keep thos paper for now as you will probably need them for your offers next year(assuming your gna apply for maths at cambridge/warwick/imperial). i would do the old oxford step papers which you can find on mathshelper and do all mat and stuff and step 1. do loads of bmo1 as you have tonnes of time to play with!


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Not that I have much experience, but I think you'd only lose 2-3 marks.

Thanks for the advice! Now I've finished S2, I was thinking of studying another module for the banter - would getting D1 out of the way be useful or should I have a crack at FP3 perhaps?



Cheers. Regrettable, but not armageddon then :-)

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Thanks for the advice! Now I've finished S2, I was thinking of studying another module for the banter - would getting D1 out of the way be useful or should I have a crack at FP3 perhaps?



Cheers. Regrettable, but not armageddon then :-)

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d1 is a load of crap. do fp3. uve got plenty of time for modules though.


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If you have to do D1 then I would get it out of the way ASAP because it's useless for STEP and you'll presumably be sitting STEP II,III next year, so you wouldn't want to waste your time with D1.

I don't want to do it, but I'll need to do it at some point as my school makes it compulsory for further mathsters. I might leave it for the summer, when at least I have warmth and sunshine to distract me from bin packing algorithms.

For now I'll probably do STEP and MAT for a bit before learning any more new material, maybe I'll start D1 in a month or so. We'll see.

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I don't want to do it, but I'll need to do it at some point as my school makes it compulsory for further mathsters. I might leave it for the summer, when at least I have warmth and sunshine to distract me from bin packing algorithms.

For now I'll probably do STEP and MAT for a bit before learning any more new material, maybe I'll start D1 in a month or so. We'll see.

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Damn my school lets us do any modules we want in a2 year for further maths people.


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Do not start MAT prep yet. Way too early. Aren't enough papers. I started after summer and I ran out of papers way too quickly.

Unless you're doing the old, old version which is much like STEP.

Oh and with regards to modules, do FP3 now. It is so interesting, we've done FP2 and half of FP3 so far (Vectors & Planes and Groups) and it's great. In my opinion, D1 is a piece of piss, you just need to learn a few algorithms and practice tem. Surely you'd want to have easy modules next year when you've got STEP prep to do, rather than something like FP3 which would require more revision...

Do not start MAT prep yet. Way too early. Aren't enough papers. I started after summer and I ran out of papers way too quickly.

Unless you're doing the old, old version which is much like STEP.

Oh and with regards to modules, do FP3 now. It is so interesting, we've done FP2 and half of FP3 so far (Vectors & Planes and Groups) and it's great. In my opinion, D1 is a piece of piss, you just need to learn a few algorithms and practice tem. Surely you'd want to have easy modules next year when you've got STEP prep to do, rather than something like FP3 which would require more revision...

Fair enough. Ill leave MAT till later, and have a crack at FP3 perhaps.

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What exam board are you? If you're OCR I'd say start with Groups, they're interesting

I haven't done the De Moivre stuff though and that does look even better.

You can do the old MAT though, by all means. The one that is 3 hours long and has more of a STEP style.

Edexcel alas. Hyperbolics and further integration to look forward to, I believe. :-)

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Your school must be big then. Ours is strict.

Done Hyperbolics and OCR's version of further integration (minus complex numbers) in our FP2. Some integrals I did, they literally took like 2-3 substations, haha, one at least being hyperbolic. Yeah, they're interesting and just extend your grip of calculus.

You do groups in a level?! Wtf edexcel is bull****.


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We don't do much. Do like the axioms, proving and disproving if things are groups, subgroups, lagrange's theorem, isomorphisms and the types of groups, e.g. Klein-V or cyclic etc (for groups of order 4).

We don't do much. Do like the axioms, proving and disproving if things are groups, subgroups, lagrange's theorem, isomorphisms and the types of groups, e.g. Klein-V or cyclic etc (for groups of order 4).