Hey I'm a great fan of your past papers. Just a quick question, is there any reason why in these polls you ask how hard people found the paper. Surely it would be slightly more useful to ask how hard you found it compared to previous papers, as that way the people who will always find it easy or hard respectively will give an answer that is more indicative of the difficulty of the paper and hence make ums etc easier to predict. Just a suggestion and keep up the good work.

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Reply 11

kprime2

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I wouldn't use the term 'hard' to describe it. I would say it was tricky, and definitely harder than last years paper. Last year's paper was heaven and only required 62 for an A. I reckon this years boundaries would be 60 for an A.

The last question was all in terms of p and q which made things really messy. Due to a sign slip I reckon I lost about 2 marks (out of 8) on that. And the last part of the last question was dependent on the previous part so I lost all 3 marks on that. Overall, expecting 70/75 (or in the absolute worse case 69/75).

Reply 12

TeeEm

OP

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Original post by samb1234

Hey I'm a great fan of your past papers. Just a quick question, is there any reason why in these polls you ask how hard people found the paper. Surely it would be slightly more useful to ask how hard you found it compared to previous papers, as that way the people who will always find it easy or hard respectively will give an answer that is more indicative of the difficulty of the paper and hence make ums etc easier to predict. Just a suggestion and keep up the good work.

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the polls are a bit of fun but it is for the student's benefit.
It will be interesting to see how these responses compare with the actual boundary

Reply 13

simonli2575

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Original post by kprime2

I wouldn't use the term 'hard' to describe it. I would say it was tricky, and definitely harder than last years paper. Last year's paper was heaven and only required 62 for an A. I reckon this years boundaries would be 60 for an A.

The last question was all in terms of p and q which made things really messy. Due to a sign slip I reckon I lost about 2 marks (out of 8) on that. And the last part of the last question was dependent on the previous part so I lost all 3 marks on that. Overall, expecting 70/75 (or in the absolute worse case 69/75).

I thought the tangent intersection part was done to death already.

Reply 14

rachelc142

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quite tricky. think I did ok though. I feel like I got full marks up until question 8.

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Xin Xang

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It was all pretty much standard. I think what caught people out was the second induction question.

I think if you were not fairly familiar with the expansion of (n+1)^2 , then you may not have seen immediately what the factorisation would look like.

Otherwise, I'm expecting very high grade boundaries.