Warwick Offer Holder (2015 Entry)

How many questions did you manage? Did q1, q2, q5 and q7 fully and couldn't really do anything else. Made a tiny mistake on q2 in simplifying something but hope that it only costs me a few marks out of 20. Definitely harder than last year's paper tbh, hoping for similar boundaries

Good luck to everyone sitting STEP tomorrow (even though I want you all to fail so I get in)!

How did you find it? I found it really difficult tbf.

Got a full solution in q1 and q7 (though not to sure on my q7.)
Did part a and b for question two.
Did part b for question 5, figured out part a as soon as i left the exam hall though
Also did a little bit of question 8.
Didnt do well compared to how i did on past papers, thought I thought this paper was harder than normal so hopefully grade boundaries similiar to 2014?

I didn't do nearly as well as I should have, I sacrificed full solutions to do parts of more. I should have worked to get proper full solutions on Q2 and 7, and my sketch for the last part of 1 was wrong; I made an error somewhere which I couldn't figure out >.<

I reckon I missed a 2, although you guys are saying the boundaries should be low, even though I thought in some respect this year had some nice questions. Questions 1, 2, and 7 I think were certainly tame!

Any idea how many people who get in have 2's or 3's?

From the distributions, it seems they give 50% of people a 2, approximately speaking. I do not think they were "tame" but they just one of the 4 approachable questions on that paper which made them seem that way, it will probs be like 45-50 for a 2, 65-70 for a 1 if I had to guess??? Maybe even lower for a 2 and 1 as it was harder than last years without a doubt. I could do a ton of them last year, but only 4 of these.

I finish Thursday, the 18th. I'm so ready to be done! It's scary how quickly some others have finished. One had photography, media and film and they finished yesterday. The other had history, english and photography and they finished Thursday.


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I finished today!! But I guess I screwed up in both papers today in such a bad mood... i guess i m not going to warwick

Well after those STEP exams I can safely say I'm not getting into Warwick!

What about STEP 1?

I was really nervous and didn't do well enough on questions I could have/should have finished, and made the mistake of panicking and just doing scraps of other questions, wish they'd been the other way round tbh. This time I was much more composed and with a clearer plan, but really struggled with the questions! :-(

Me: Well I like Differential Equations, and Complex Numbers... Geometry's definitely not my strong point.
STEP: hehehehehehe

Hey guys, would it be alright to choose accommodation after IB results day (July 6th)? I don't want to research the different options and get all excited only to find out that I missed my offer lol


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Well after those STEP exams I can safely say I'm not getting into Warwick!

I think I am in the same position . What's your insurance?

I doubt you did that badly, it was a hard paper! How many solutions did you get in STEP 1?

Q1 I got completely.
Got most of Qs 2 and 5.
And then partials/rather fragmentary answers for 4 more questions. I have often been 'criticised' for underestimating my marks. For my Oxford MAT (obviously no offer ), I estimated my mark as 51 and it turns out I got 'above average', which this year was around 64 if I remember correctly. So maybe it won't be that bad. And if it does, St Andrews is lovely and I love golf, so it'll all be good.

EDIT: That was for STEP I. For STEP II, I really didn't do well. Question 6 was pretty good, but other than that, not good...

"It'll all be good".

*Famous last words*

Aye, I often under estimate, I got full solutions to 1, 2, 5 and 7 except I read part of question 7 wrong, it didnt change the difficulty just meant my answer at the end was slightly wrong so I am pessimistic and deducted 5 marks. After that I got like 5 marks of partials. I am hoping I can get the 1 because FM has gone crap for me hahaahah. I am also hoping lots of people found it hard and grade boundaries will be similar to last years paper.

Dont worry bro, STEP 1 was a HORRIBLE paper, the boundaries are going to be hella low, there was no calculus which I was relying on to do well in STEP so imagine how it went for me