Edexcel: 11th and 14th June 2013 (Linear) 1MA0/1H + 2H (Official Thread)

How are u revising maths? do you know it all now?

For Maths revision, best thing to do is learn the basic principles and then do loads of practice questions at different difficulties

Hmmm. What are you hoping for in august (grade)

I've already got an A* - did the exam in January. I got 169/175 - this is AQA by the way. And I'm currently doing Further maths on AQA and hoping for an A^ (A* with Distinction).

I never like to predict what is going to be on the paper.
I appreciate students like to know though!

With my pupils sitting them exam I am going to find what I believe are 100 of the more challenging A and A* questions and get them to see how many they can get and email me the answers.

Revision should be suited to you whether that is past papers, books, study groups, parental/teacher support, videos or a chat forum.

I would say though there is a difference between revision and needing to learn a topic and from experience some students could spend more time grasping the understanding of a topic (or two) instead of just hoping they get the past paper question right or it doesn't come up!

I am up to 2 questions out of the 100 so far and will write some nasty ones to really push the A/A* students.

So what advice would you give for me since my exam is in a few weeks (11th and 14th) in terms of revision. I pretty much know enough to get me an a*, just silly mistakes like rounding errors that are loosing me marks.

I never like to predict what is going to be on the paper.
I appreciate students like to know though!

With my pupils sitting them exam I am going to find what I believe are 100 of the more challenging A and A* questions and get them to see how many they can get and email me the answers.

Revision should be suited to you whether that is past papers, books, study groups, parental/teacher support, videos or a chat forum.

I would say though there is a difference between revision and needing to learn a topic and from experience some students could spend more time grasping the understanding of a topic (or two) instead of just hoping they get the past paper question right or it doesn't come up!

I am up to 2 questions out of the 100 so far and will write some nasty ones to really push the A/A* students.

See the post above

Hey, just wondering, on what paper is cumulative frequency most likely to come up? (Paper 1 or 2)??

Hey, just wondering, on what paper is cumulative frequency most likely to come up? (Paper 1 or 2)??

Cumulative Frequency comes up on both papers, but from what I saw with my paper it come up on the calculator as the figures were more complicated. My advice is treat it as if you're revising for only one paper because apart from trigonometry and pythagoras they mix and match whatever they like.

See the post above

Cumulative Frequency comes up on both papers, but from what I saw with my paper it come up on the calculator as the figures were more complicated. My advice is treat it as if you're revising for only one paper because apart from trigonometry and pythagoras they mix and match whatever they like.

Trig and Pythagoras (as stated in a post above mine) could come up on a non calc paper.
They may give you a pythagorian triple, a question with an answer as a surd or give you an exact value for the cosine or sine of an angle.

I agree though, treat maths as one big picture

Trig and Pythagoras (as stated in a post above mine) could come up on a non calc paper.
They may give you a pythagorian triple, a question with an answer as a surd or give you an exact value for the cosine or sine of an angle.

I agree though, treat maths as one big picture

Hi Sir, would you reply to my public message about the exam question?

My weak point is basically: functions of graphs and proving things using algebra. What about everyone else?

I shall give you a starting point:

Pythagoras. Have a go and then if you haven't nailed it I will do something.

The last part can be done a fair few different ways.