Mathematics Applicants 2012

Naa actually next year it starts on the 4th October, it's just a placeholder random date out of laziness, I think. Most of the dates for unis on UCAS are wrong apparently

EDIT: Also more off-topic; the girl in your sig is very airbrushed but still soo hawwwwt.

Not gonna lie, STEP is really quite fun... why has no one told me this before lol.

Right I thought it was I (from what it said on the sheet), must be mistaken (EDIT: I read Mathematical Formulae (STEP) 1 and mixed them up )

But still how can you do STEP III so well if you haven't finished further maths? (or have you?)

Just got 3 solutions out for III 1987! The questions in the earlier years seems to have a much greater variation in difficulty (the questions I did could have easy been on a step I papers and required no further pure knowledge, hence my success with them).

Well I had my first ever foray into step this morning...completed the pure on step 1 2006. Does anyone know if that is considered easy or hard as they go?

all the questions! what did you smoke?

I think by that point I had pure caffeine flowing through my veins as I was dragged out of bed at 6.30 to watch rugby

I was gutted to see England crash out.....who do you support?

Well I had my first ever foray into step this morning...completed the pure on step 1 2006. Does anyone know if that is considered easy or hard as they go?

In my humble opinion:
Pure- The questions are very "nice", especially if you like geometry (which I do). They are a tad easy though. 3 is unbelievably easy, 4 is beautiful but not too taxing, eight is a lovely question. I'd say that this paper is notably different to others in that the questions lead you through the problem quite overtly.
You have done very well to do all of them though.

Mechanics- Bleugh. No other word for it IMO. Long, wordy, fiddly and not at all memorable. I probably wouldn't touch any unless I was desperate which is not at all like me.

Stats- Fairly standard. Not easy, not extremely difficult either. Relatively concise though which is good.

Thanks. I did think it was surprisingly easy considering what I heard: the only place I ran into trouble was when I mis-substituted in 5 (ii) and got into some horrendous algebra (no excuses there) I've also pretty much resolved to only do pure when I sit the actual exams as I find it so much more formulaic.

(intentional maths pun?)
That strategy would have payed off in 2006. Not so much in STEP II this year...
I wouldn't completely avoid the applied as they are occasionally very nice and some of them are literally pure questions in disguise.
But you seem pretty sorted so who am I to tell you how to do STEP?

Everyone in my school has always adopted the 'pure-only' strategy and it seems to work: we had 10 1s and Ss out of 10 last year

Everyone in my school has always adopted the 'pure-only' strategy and it seems to work: we had 10 1s and Ss out of 10 last year

Well done! Which questions did you do?