Grade Boundaries 2009

I'm starting to think he just liked to scare me; he spent the year telling me stories of people who'd gotten something like 94% in the prelims, failed their finals, and were denied appeals.

I had more trouble with the one where you were integrating and finding the area between two sin waves, because a) my mind got stuck on the question of what units I was supposed to use for my final answer, b) I hate working in radians and don't actually know how to put my calculator in that mode, so I'm stuck expressing everything as 34.3pi/180 or some such, and c) I apparently decided that I could get my second point of intersection of the two waves by just adding 60 onto the first one. I have no idea why. So yeah, I came out thinking I deserved to fail for being so idiotic on that one question

Maths exams always do funny things to your heads.

I for instance failed to expand:

$2(x+3)$ correctly as part of the gift of the question involving the straight line in Paper 1.

Can I ask the school to give me my exact marks because using the physics marking scheme on the sqa site I got about 94% I really wanna know lol :P

I spent so long moaning after the maths exam, and managed to end up with an A, without them lowering the grade boundary! Chuffed...

Me too! I slept peacefully all summer thinking that they would lower the boundary and I would scrape an A. Then my friend text saying he'd got a b(he's quite clever) and I panicked.
I got my A(band one) and am delighted!

Maths exams always do funny things to your heads.

I for instance failed to expand:

$2(x+3)$ correctly as part of the gift of the question involving the straight line in Paper 1.

yeah if i remember rightly, i substituted the x and y co-ordinates into the straight line equation incorrectly, was kicking myself after the exam as those questions really are the basics. then forgot to turn over for the last question on paper 1 until 10 minutes to go whilst i was checking the multiple choice over for 20 minutes. also made a couple of daft mistakes on paper 2.

still got an A, thank god.

Likewise. Got (a) and (b) done but not (c).

i just had a wee look at the grade boundaries document again. and it seems to have changed...the A boundary in higher maths was actually 71.5%, meaning that the grade boundary fell substantially. it definitely said on results day that the boundary was 78%, didn't it? or am i going insane???

Has that been released this year? That was interesting.

i just had a wee look at the grade boundaries document again. and it seems to have changed...the A boundary in higher maths was actually 71.5%, meaning that the grade boundary fell substantially. it definitely said on results day that the boundary was 78%, didn't it? or am i going insane???