Arsey's S1 Edexcel Summer 2013 Model Solutions BOTH PAPERS

I am trying to upload my answers to the other time zone paper. I keep getting a 503 error though

what is with this rep thing? 15000 views, 19 positives but 4 negatives

The question was about the results of males and females in a STATISTICS TEST, seriously, was that really necessary? I read the question and felt irritated because it would take all of 5 seconds to come up with a different concept with the same data. I am sick of being told I am being overly sensitive, males have the great privilege to say that and shrug it off as sensitivity. It's not like they did slightly worse, they did 20 marks on average worse (practically half the score) which begs the question, why?! Anyway. It isn't a 'big deal' but reflects the insidious nature in which we deal with the 'differences' between men and women.

here's why - females did significantly worse

Is it true that this exam doesn't count towards an A*? I've been told only C3 and C4 do.

Arsey, for C2 do we need to know change of base (logs)? In your June 2011 C2 thread you say it's not needed as they don't ask questions regarding change of base?

i think it would be best to upload a link, or just post it and in your 1st post state the post no. for where you posted it [ too much posts]

well it is on the spec, so they could ask it. They never have though. The formula is in the formulae book.

It is in the first post.

I was also surprised that after going through a lot of C2 papers they only asked the division/multiplication law into a quadratic to then solve, do you personally expect a harder C2 paper this time? the past few have being fairly easy

That's not what the exam statistics say. Here are the results for last summer's Edexcel Maths A level. These are cumulative number of candidates and cumulative percentages:

A* A B C D E
M 4074 10189 15252 18748 21109 22433
% 17.6 44.1 66.1 81.2 91.4 97.2
F 2836 7351 10997 13425 14978 15820
% 17.6 45.5 68.1 83.1 92.7 98.0

For Further Maths, they're more different:

M 1279 2435 3267 3688 3946 4051
% 31.0 59.0 79.1 89.3 95.6 98.1
F 658 1246 1643 1840 1919 1966
% 33.0 62.5 82.4 92.3 96.3 98.6

well all of the harder papers have been going to the non-UK candidates, so who knows...

it wouldn't surprise me if C2 is a hard one.

i was more having a joke about why females had worse marks in Q2 in the S1 exam nothing to do with actual statistics

here's why - females did significantly worse because they spent their lives getting pissed off about tiny little things which mean absolutely nothing in real life ( such as the context behind a statistics exam ) instead of working towards their other exams.

Wait , that's just you. kindly chill DOWN about the issue , if your so bothered go and raise the point with a higher authority and film it - i wanna see how badly they flame you for it.

Feminazi's honestly.

I am trying to upload my answers to the other time zone paper. I keep getting a 503 error though

what is with this rep thing? 15000 views, 19 positives but 4 negatives

Just please read back what you wrote. Why are you being so harsh?

I am not pissed off, in reality it seems like you are pissed off by me and my opinion. I have done a lot of work for my exams and I spent all of 20 seconds tapping out my views on the suitability of that question.