WJEC AS Maths C2 May 20th 2015

Im resitting C1 C2 and M1. Yes C1 was a difficult paper but that was only because it was new, it threw everyone off guard. Last year's C2 exam was horrible, so hopefully, with luck it will be nicer this time. However i have a feeling that with all these complaints going to WJEC telling them that their maths exams were too easy pre 2013, you should prepare for the worst and hope for the best. Other than that, good luck

People were complaining they were too easy? Where did you hear that from?

Well to be honest, WJEC C1 and C2 have been far too easy in previous years. That's why they stepped it up this year (and to a lesser extent last year).

'Stepping it up' though isn't a good thing, it then becomes a birthday lottery. Somebody with more intelligence sitting a paper this year could have a worse grade than somebody with less intelligence 4 years ago., just because they want 'to step it up'. Halving the amount of sittings does not help either.

Actually, grade boundaries play a part and people still tend to get the grade they deserve. I'm not advocating a sudden increase in difficulty in the exams - in fact, I think the way forward is to teach the course in such a way that students understand what they are doing rather than learning everything mechanically. I hear so much rubbish about people having so many proofs to "learn" and so many "equations/formulae to remember". There's no point in making the exams test their understanding more if they don't have any understanding in the first place...
Nevertheless, we do need to make it so that top grades can't be achieved by just rote memorisation of methods.

i had that thetar^2/2 = 1.3r^2, then area of the triangle = sin2.6 r^2so the smaller flowerbed was 1.04...r^2
Then the area of circle = pi r^2 ,take away the smaller flowerbed, (1.04...r^2) = 2.09...r^2

and then just stated that 2.09... (larger flowerbed) is roughly twice 1.04... (smaller flowerbed)

I managed to get 1. somethingxr^ for red flower bed and 2.somethingxr^ but then I gave my answers as an integer: 2r^=2(r^). Is this giving answers as an inegers going to bite my ass off now?

Wow how did people get A's in C1 I thought that paper was atrocious but well done guys

What did you get?

Tbh I literally came out in tears from that exam, I went home telling my family how bad C1 went and it put me off my other exams so much. But i put in enough workings to show the examiner what I was thinking which I assume is the only reason I got an A tbh.


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