Mathematics Applicants 2012

I don't know why, but I decided not to do the FSMQ

That was during my 'ugh, cba to do anything in this lesson, I've already got a GCSE in it and I'd rather glue pens to the desk' phase.

Well we did the maths GCSE in year 10, so in year 11 we HAD TO either do GCSE resit, Stats GCSE or FSMQ...they said do FSMQ if you wanted to do maths a level so... :P

Wow! That sounds like a very cool phase

Ugh. I just spent ages trying to work out why the range of a simple function was >-0.25. Minimum point anyone?

OCR YAY! Might have messed up on something - the questions were simple but had bits that caught people out.

Wiki's good for wasting loads of time on interesting things you never remember, I do the same I only know the code because I've spent ages looking for notes to get a look at before the course begins. A2 physics coursework's a killer! ...literally, I managed to electrocute my physics teacher a few times Ooh, gaming! I'd be in the same boat if I had a console newer than the PS2 Also, my PS2 doesn't work too well. Might be a bitch, haven't started yet. No point until I get C3/C4/FP2/FP3 done. Might try M3 depending on how M2 goes, there are some bits I like and some bits I don't, although that's heavily based on how I tend to dislike things I'm not good at We had someone accepted to Oxford for Physics last year, but I think that's it. Oxford's a lovely place, we went on a trip there and my chemistry teacher got really annoyed with the 'local buses only' signs.

I might try for Caius College, Cambridge, but distance is a big issue. I don't mind living away, it's the fact that I'd have to take my stuff back and forward over the breaks. And if I get an interview, getting there wouldn't be easy. Also, STEP is . And my GCSEs could be a lot better. If I went to Southampton I could commute, but I wouldn't want to. Been to Southampton, it's a nice place, although that was on a chemistry trip.

I use emotes in general too much

Definitely do it. FP1's a nice module - I love induction and complex numbers, although roots of polynomials annoyed me.



Might have got carried away, and this is just the maths (and the lime cycle). There's chemistry on the wall next to it. Physics didn't take up much room because it was just suvat and a few stock phrases

Very stubborn I've always been fairly mathsy/sciencey, I've just begun to love it recently

Wow!! Your 4 A levels were very similar! What do you want to do at uni or as a career?

OMG I HAVE A WALL EXACTLY LIKE THAT. Well its a cork board to be exact

That's a cupboard, with my old parade shoes on it.

2 sheets on matrices, 1 on roots of polynomials, 1 on complex numbers and 1 on summing. Mainly formulae, I suck at remembering things.

ah, i took the impossible D1 exam, such a crap exam. Scraped an A, but OCR really screwed a lot of people over.

I did that, had a look at AS maths before i started, and even started self teaching, but it was the wrong exam board , i swear my college said they were on Edexcel I hated AS phyiscs coursework enough to drop it. We were sort of totally left on our own, i managed to get an A on it somehow got exactly 80% Ah no you'll have to buy an Xbox! They're just the thing to buy if you want to do horifically bad in your studies! I have to hide mine during exam times, if i dont i end up playing it Haven't been to oxford. We got the choice of Cam or Oxford and many more seem to be applying to Cam. I love the city though. I love it!!!! Its so nice, the only city i had been to a lot before that was London, but Cambridge is so different! Its great! I could easily live there for 3 years, at least

Hmm, im lucky as im only about an hour away from Cam, so getting to the interview wont be so bad. You considered train? Might be able to go direct into London and then go from there to Cam. STEP's scary, seeing as i know so many people who missed their offer because of it I cant even seem to fully complete questions on it as it is, but speeding through C3 and C4 so that i can get started on I and II !

I just two sheets full of physics formulae, one for trig ratios, C3 differentiation, C3 integrations, C4 differentiation, C4 binomial expansion, C3 trigonometry, and then just random stuff!

confused over oxford or cambridge nw!!!

You don't have to apply to either, y'know. The way you've posted it implies that you're just applying to one because it's Oxbridge, not because you like the course itself.

both courses are good...ive been to cambridge and experianced the lectures over a 4 day residential stay. in some aspects the oxford maths course is better.....but in others so is cam....i have to decide by next week!

Ah okey dokes. Lucky

I've been to Oxford with a few others from my school and the admissions guy from Merton (where we ate) gave us a chat and then we went on a tour. Then we went to the Pitt Rivers museum and my chemistry teacher went on a rant about how Richard Dawkins is a knob.

Good luck with your decision. What other unis are you looking at?

the others are warwick, imperial, ucl and kingz

Ouch, no safety nets there

Here you go :

Find the value of $\frac{100^{2}}{100!}+ \sum_{n=1}^{100}|n^{2}-3n+1|S_{n}$, where $S_{n}$ is a G.P. with first term $\frac{n-1}{n!}$ and common ratio $\frac{1}{n}$

The question is quite fiddly/long, not anything neat as your one, but its the closest to a suitable series Q I could find. "Should" be quite straightforward (especially for you!).

(I am terrible with Latex, so there could be an error btw...)

I remember doing a question exactly like this at some point... remind me where it comes from

I wanted to do Stats GCSE - when we picked our options in Year 9 I chose Stats but the old head of maths was like 'oh, there's not enough maths teachers!' so I ended up doing Food Tech with an absolute bitch of a teacher who I hated and ended up getting a D.

A phase I now regret

Mathematics i hope, but because of the open-ness of the degree i would like to do financial mathematics as well, incase i go into finance