ocr (not MEI) FP1 Thursday 14th May 2015

Reply 40

arabinthemist

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I thought this was harder than last years. Had last years for my mock and 100 ums. This one not feeling it :/

Reply 41

Rr_rolo

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I'm definite i got a U in that paper

Reply 42

Rr_rolo

1

Grade boundaries for E?

Reply 43

Priya_

can anyone remember the allocation of marks for each question?

found the paper a lot easier than last year's! although the i screwed up 10(i) and the intersection of the loci :frown:

Reply 44

nurav11

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Original post by arabinthemist

I thought this was harder than last years. Had last years for my mock and 100 ums. This one not feeling it :/

Really? Thought it was a lot easier than last years paper but really time-pressured. It seemed very long as the matrix transformation stuff took a while to get. 100 UMS for last years ooh buddy not bad haha

Reply 45

Sam280297

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Much easier than last years
Last question I got 77, but think thats wrong. I went and expanded the full thing. Messed up the sum to infinity one as well, but that was just a careless error

Reply 46

Uba1dHoque

Anyone remember how many marks the argand diagram question was? I think it was 4 can't be too sure, I know I dropped marks on that question, accidentally used centre and half line from (-2) on the y axis :frown:

, anyways looking at previous mark schemes that would still score me 2 or 3 marks depending on how many were available.

Reply 47

rich1334

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Original post by Uba1dHoque

Anyone remember how many marks the argand diagram question was? I think it was 4 can't be too sure, I know I dropped marks on that question, accidentally used centre and half line from (-2) on the y axis :frown:

, anyways looking at previous mark schemes that would still score me 2 or 3 marks depending on how many were available.

It was 4 marks

Reply 48

lauren_2

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I didnt specify the rotation was about the origin, drop a mark? :frown:

Reply 49

nurav11

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Original post by lauren_2

I didnt specify the rotation was about the origin, drop a mark? :frown:

Yeh I was exactly the same :frown:

, however I remember the question was only out of 4 so I reckon clockwise rotation 90° (1 mark), matrix for that (1 mark), stretch of scale factor 2 in x direction (1 mark), matrix for that (1 mark). Itd be so picky if that lost a mark...

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Reply 50

arabinthemist

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Original post by nurav11

Really? Thought it was a lot easier than last years paper but really time-pressured. It seemed very long as the matrix transformation stuff took a while to get. 100 UMS for last years ooh buddy not bad haha

tbf looking back on it yesterday's paper was easy except for the last question. I know i've dropped at least 8 marks tho so no full ums for me lol

Reply 51

nurav11

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Original post by arabinthemist

tbf looking back on it yesterday's paper was easy except for the last question. I know i've dropped at least 8 marks tho so no full ums for me lol

Yup, that's what I thought too, all the other questions were standard (induction question was so nice). I'm sure you'll get method marks tbf for the last question. What do you the grade boundaries will be?

Reply 52

arabinthemist

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Original post by nurav11

Yup, that's what I thought too, all the other questions were standard (induction question was so nice). I'm sure you'll get method marks tbf for the last question. What do you the grade boundaries will be?

59/60 for an A cus of that last question I reckon.

Reply 53

Jai Sandhu

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Original post by arabinthemist

59/60 for an A cus of that last question I reckon.

Ambitious, I reckon 65 is closer to an A.

Reply 54

nurav11

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Original post by arabinthemist

59/60 for an A cus of that last question I reckon.

Yeh fair, I'd love that to be the grade boundary, reckon it'll be a little higher though possibly 61/62? No big difference.

Original post by Jai Sandhu

Ambitious, I reckon 65 is closer to an A.

Nah it won't be that. For that, it would have to been the easiest FP1 paper ever and it wasn't, probably more around the 60 mark.

Reply 55

Jai Sandhu

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Original post by nurav11

Nah it won't be that. For that, it would have to been the easiest FP1 paper ever and it wasn't, probably more around the 60 mark.

I thought it was the easiest FP1 paper ever :colondollar:

Reply 56

nurav11

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Original post by Jai Sandhu

I thought it was the easiest FP1 paper ever :colondollar:

Haha well done then! Tbh I thought it was fairly easy aswell but that's only cos I got the roots question in the end. Everything else was definitely very easy, big difference between those questions and that root question. Probably needed to chuck it in there to make the paper harder

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Reply 57

Jai Sandhu

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Original post by nurav11

Haha well done then! Tbh I thought it was fairly easy aswell but that's only cos I got the roots question in the end. Everything else was definitely very easy, big difference between those questions and that root question. Probably needed to chuck it in there to make the paper harder

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Fair enough, if you didnt get the roots question you are probably in trouble, or if you tried to do it without using part i.

Reply 58

nurav11

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Original post by Jai Sandhu

Fair enough, if you didnt get the roots question you are probably in trouble, or if you tried to do it without using part i.

Yeh it was 9 marks so pretty major stuff. That's why, I think the average for that question will probably be only 3-4/9 so hence grade boundary slightly lower than 65. We'll see

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