Oxford MAT 2013/2014

Does anyone know who to email to find out your MAT score?

I believe we can find out by sending an email to one of the tutors at our assigned college once the colleges are done giving out offers in early January.

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Ok thank you

Has anyone heard anything from Balliol? I'm getting more and more nervous as the days go on!

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anyone know what 'sequences defined iteratively' (on the syllabus) means?

Does anyone know who to email to find out your MAT score?

I believe we can find out by sending an email to one of the tutors at our assigned college once the colleges are done giving out offers in early January.

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Email the admissions team (e.g. [email protected]) rather than the academic tutors.

Noble is it the college you've applied to that marks your MAT and can they see where you lost marks and the mistakes and working on multiple choice?

Because I acquired most marks from 2-5 and dropped heavily due to MC. - although on occasions correct working was there and put wrong answers for it. E.g first one with (a-2)^2>0 shouldve been a=/2 but put for all a- i was thinking when it became 0 or greater. etc.

From what I understand (either of the admissions people at Oxford will correct me if I'm wrong here) the papers are marked centrally by the institute and then tutors are given access to the papers and overall mark. I don't know if the tutors actually look through each paper individually to see what the candidate has done (especially for those colleges with a relatively high intake, they'd have to look at 30+ scripts), but I'm sure they'll be interested to see a rough breakdown of where you got, and lost, marks.

Hey, I'm trying the Mathematics Interview Questions, was wondering if I could get a hint at differentiating x^x. I'm fairly sure you can't differentiate as normal, I'm tempted to differentiate in the same manner you differentiate exponential functions; however there are two variables. I can see that as x increases the function increases very ​quickly, similar to an exponential but far faster. Tip?


Also, just a question relating to the MAT. When marking the multiple choice, are any marks at all given for working?

Lincoln anybody?

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A hint to differentiating $y = x^x$ - you want to take logs.

No, for the multiple choice, the points are awarded solely for what you put in the tick-boxes.

Hey, I'm trying the Mathematics Interview Questions, was wondering if I could get a hint at differentiating x^x. I'm fairly sure you can't differentiate as normal, I'm tempted to differentiate in the same manner you differentiate exponential functions; however there are two variables. I can see that as x increases the function increases very ​quickly, similar to an exponential but far faster. Tip?


Also, just a question relating to the MAT. When marking the multiple choice, are any marks at all given for working?

Oh okay I see, not as hard as I thought. Do you get $xln(x)e(^xln(x))$ ?

Oh and thanks for the info.

Hey, I'm trying the Mathematics Interview Questions, was wondering if I could get a hint at differentiating x^x. I'm fairly sure you can't differentiate as normal, I'm tempted to differentiate in the same manner you differentiate exponential functions; however there are two variables. I can see that as x increases the function increases very ​quickly, similar to an exponential but far faster. Tip?


Also, just a question relating to the MAT. When marking the multiple choice, are any marks at all given for working?