Maths AQA C1 revision - 14th January 2013

I have a C1 exam on 14th January. I have been doing a bit of revision everyday of the Christmas holiday. I've been answering questions from my textbook and going over the past papers, and focusing on the bits where I tend to lose marks on.

Is that enough or is there anything more which I should do if want to ensure that I get a comfortable high A for C1?

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Reply 1

jarasta

how many hours do you do a day in c1

Reply 2

gdunne42

Original post by MissGeek

What do you mean by "going over the past papers" ?
I recommend doing every question on every past paper that you can find and then marking them against the mark scheme. Having a look and picking out things you think you might find hard isn't quite enough to ensure your goal imo. You may for example find you are prone to silly mistakes in certain types of easy questions (with me it's double negatives in algebra) and you'll learn to look out for that in the exam. When you are consistently getting 90+% doing papers in exam timing then you are there.

Reply 3

Wizkidani

How many hours of revision is everyone doing?

Reply 4

Problematique

The only way you can revise for maths is by doing questions really. Won't be surprised if the Monday exam is difficult compared to previous papers. Jan and June 2012 were significantly harder than the others.

Reply 5

aaliyah<31D

At last i have found a thread on this exam!!

As someone has already previously mentioned, the exam may be abit harder than previous past exams. The past papers for 2012 were quite significantly harder... well for me but the other papers i got an A/B. Right now i'm just doing past papers, doing the questions that i found difficult and also doing extra revision on mymaths and exam solution.

good luck for Monday! :smile:

Reply 6

nursy96

Good luck to everyone!

Just make sure you check your answers, what I've found is that I've got part a) wrong so the questions after that are wrong... So annoying!

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Reply 7

Wizkidani

Original post by nursy96

Good luck to everyone!

Just make sure you check your answers, what I've found is that I've got part a) wrong so the questions after that are wrong... So annoying!

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Sameee!

Also I always make silly mistakes and yeah last years papers were much harder D:

Reply 8

Wizkidani

can someone help me with this question from jan 2012 4(d) ii - find the area of the shaded region bounded by the curve between A and B and the line segments AO and OB? http://store.aqa.org.uk/qual/gce/pdf/AQA-MPC1-QP-JAN12.PDF

Reply 9

Dalek1099

Original post by Wizkidani

Just find the integral to 4di and find the integral of the line from (0,0) to (1,4) and subtract the first integral by the second.I wouldn't advise revising very much because I think C1 is very easy but you have to be careful not too make any mistakes though.

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Reply 10

Kamyshdalek

I've got a feeling it's going to be like the 2010 papers... What do u guys think?

Reply 11

nursy96

Might be! I hope it's like the June 2011 personally - am I right in saying that:
(90% A*)
80% A
70% B
60% C
50% D
40% E
Anything below U ?

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Reply 12

Kamyshdalek

Those are the correct grade boundaries but can be changed by the exam board depending on how easy or hard the paper is after we've sat it.

Original post by nursy96

Might be! I hope it's like the June 2011 personally - am I right in saying that:
(90% A*)
80% A
70% B
60% C
50% D
40% E
Anything below U ?

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Reply 13

Joahl123

My teacher said this exam is going to be very hard as in the wording but also you get less marks for the easier stuff....

Reply 14

Wizkidani

Original post by Dalek1099

Ahh thanks, I worked it out before and got the right answer :3 Just got confused a little xD

Reply 15

LucyO_103

Original post by Joahl123

My teacher said this exam is going to be very hard as in the wording but also you get less marks for the easier stuff....

What do you mean? Surely your teacher would have no idea what is going to be on the paper unless s/he helped to write it!

There's no point in worrying over rumours guys, just do your best!

Reply 16

beautywithbrains

I know this is a c1 but is there an aqa c2 forum?

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Reply 17

resist

Anyone got the MCP1 June 2012 paper and mark scheme? If you could upload it here that would be much appreciated! Thanks.

Reply 18

aaliyah<31D

Original post by resist

Anyone got the MCP1 June 2012 paper and mark scheme? If you could upload it here that would be much appreciated! Thanks.

http://www.dchs-sixthform.org.uk/minisites/DCHS_mathspapers/ASpapers.html

found this link...Good luck!!

Reply 19

Joahl123

Original post by LucyO_103

What do you mean? Surely your teacher would have no idea what is going to be on the paper unless s/he helped to write it!

There's no point in worrying over rumours guys, just do your best!

well basically one of the cheif examiners came in who helps put together the questions, obviously he could not give us any pointers to what will come up but he warned us it will be a tough exam, this is also down to the fact the amount of A's possible has been reduced from 20% of the population to 19% and also less marks are being awarded for the easier questions so yeah don't worry just focus on getting the things you know right and then drop a few marks on the harder question, should be fine tbh everyone is in the same situation.