I did a bunch of papers this week and did okay, I'm still not averaging 70+ for maths and on the Jan 2011 FP1 I only managed to only get within 1 mark of the A boundary.
I'm not too good at C2 but I've sat 3 papers and boosted my marks from 45 to 52 to 61 so hopefully I should be good enough by the time the week is out. Every FP1, C1 and C2 paper I complete the mark isn't exactly interstellar but I've started making a lot less basic mistakes and every mark I lose I learn something
. I understand that it's better than the average for whatever year it is but whenever I step into my further maths class or log into TSR I feel totally dwarfed
. Hopefully I can compete with the big boys before exams come though
I've also decided that for Stats, D1 and D2 I'm going to try and revise during frees until I've finished all of my first maths exams, considering that D1 and S1 are in June and D2 is literally 2 months from today (time of writing).
I did another F322 paper and got 86/100, as well as doing 2 F321s, 1 in a free and a break time (so really a way of procrastinating doing homework) and another in exam conditions, I scored 40/60 (lol) and 54/60 respectively. As a consequence of that 40 I've decided that I'm not going to be sitting 1 hour papers in one period.
I'm thinking I shouldn't be losing (m)any marks in either of the chemistry papers if I don't mess up and I learn my chemistry properly. I've noticed that for the F321 exam I don't actually understand some parts of the syllabus but I know how to score all of the marks for those specific questions 99% of the time, this is something that I'm going to be looking to rectify whenever I have an hour free, considering that it's looking more and more likely I'll be taking chemistry next year. Funny how things change after I actually revise properly.
I've decided that next week I'm going to look over all of the content for the G481 exam for physics as I've yet to get more than 49 marks and I just sat a paper and got a C which is unacceptable, and the 40 something marks I'm usually getting are clearly because of a lack of appreciable understanding of the physics in mechanics. I didn't finish my notes for G482 this weekend, but I'm going to complete the bulk of what's remaining done tone tomorrow morning.
From January I've held the opinion that G481 is the easiest exam that I have to sit and I'll have to deal with my arrogance. Much like every other one of the exams I sat a mock in in January but I'll (hopefully) pull it back
I have 2 mocks next school week, an F322 and a G482 mock which I'm obviously hoping to do well in. I expect to get an A in the F322 and any less would be a lil disappointing, physics I have no idea but a C or above would be nice for the time being (better would be preferred though)