wjec c1 maths 13th may

Original post by Mr rump

You will be if you get a degree at Cambridge

Not really, pure mathematics doesn't earn nearly enough money! All you can do with it is teach (no way) or do research (this interests me quite a lot). Of course that means I might end up doing a lot more applied modules, just so I can get a job!
In reality the only way you can make loads of money with maths is by being involved in top-level finance or at least statistics of some kind, neither of which I'm keen on. But I want to make a lot of money, so I might end up doing something like stats anyway...

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Original post by PrimeLime

Not really, pure mathematics doesn't earn nearly enough money! All you can do with it is teach (no way) or do research (this interests me quite a lot). Of course that means I might end up doing a lot more applied modules, just so I can get a job!

In reality the only way you can make loads of money with maths is by being involved in top-level finance or at least statistics of some kind, neither of which I'm keen on. But I want to make a lot of money, so I might end up doing something like stats anyway...

Investment banking?

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Original post by Mr rump

Investment banking?

Yeah but I don't think it'll be 'mathsy' enough for me. I hate economics but love maths. That's the problem.

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Original post by PrimeLime

Yeah but I don't think it'll be 'mathsy' enough for me. I hate economics but love maths. That's the problem.

Adding up your money? 😂

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Original post by Mr rump

Adding up your money? 😂

That's the kind of thing people think when they think about 'needing to be good at maths for finance'... the ignorance...

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Original post by PrimeLime

That's the kind of thing people think when they think about 'needing to be good at maths for finance'... the ignorance...

What?😂

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Original post by Mr rump

What?😂

They think that the 'maths' involved in finance is counting money etc.

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Original post by PrimeLime

They think that the 'maths' involved in finance is counting money etc.

No I was in about counting your wages as you would earn a lot of money 😂

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at345

Original post by PrimeLime

7b was differentiation if I recall correctly?
Probably just lose one mark. And using the quadratic formula is fine.

I used the quadratic formula, but I didn't divide the 4 root two, so i'll probably lose 1/2 marks?

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WhisperingTide

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On a scale of 0 - Pi would
Would only writing Lim(h-->0) for the first line of First Principals and then just writing '=' loose any marks?

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Original post by WhisperingTide

On a scale of 0 - Pi would
Would only writing Lim(h-->0) for the first line of First Principals and then just writing '=' loose any marks?

Yes. You never said what dy/dx is equal to. This is why people need to stop doing questions mechanically...
I don't mean to worry you any more than I already have, but my teacher mentioned once about a candidate who made a similar mistake and lost ALL the marks, with the examiner thinking that the candidate knows nothing about what they are writing.
On the scale I would say tau.

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