National 5 Maths Exam 2016

Original post by jj1814

How low can the grade boundaries go? Lower than 34%?

I'm at about 32% by my calculations :redface:

Is that your estimation of the final percentage for just the paper 1 or both ?

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Person556

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@sumteacherweb no longer exists for some strange reason, does anyone happen to have a copy of both papers (I didn't do nat 5 I did adv higher I just want to have a look at it)

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Person556

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Original post by jackers789

I don't see how people found the exam that hard. Like it does not deserve to have a petition made out of it. I failed my prelim so i worked my ass off for the exam. People should focus more on working rather than trying to lower the grade boundaries because the exam was a little "challenging"

Do you happen to have a copy of the nat 5 paper? Or where I can find it? @sumteacherweb has been deleted so I don't know where it could be?

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jj1814

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Original post by Ethan100

Is that your estimation of the final percentage for just the paper 1 or both ?

Both. I always do terrible on paper 2 so I was counting on a decent paper 1 to help :frown:

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Original post by jj1814

Both. I always do terrible on paper 2 so I was counting on a decent paper 1 to help :frown:

Thats the same with me, Luckily I found Paper 2 pretty straight forward, a few clumsy mistakes but I think it saved my Paper 1 results.

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yeolk

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Original post by Person556

@sumteacherweb no longer exists for some strange reason, does anyone happen to have a copy of both papers (I didn't do nat 5 I did adv higher I just want to have a look at it)

just search maths 2016 nat 5 solutions on google lol

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You can just type it up on google it comes up on google images have a look

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Jay431

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Original post by Person556

@sumteacherweb no longer exists for some strange reason, does anyone happen to have a copy of both papers (I didn't do nat 5 I did adv higher I just want to have a look at it)

The SQA probably kidnapped him

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Aidan.15

DLBmaths on YouTube is has also started to upload the 2016 nat5 solutions

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future=medicine

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Original post by Higherdude

Anyone got the national 5 paper?

SumTeacher on Facebook posted paper 1 and paper 2 with all of the solutions :smile:

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xJoe200

I have got a question, see if I worked out a question the way it was meant to be worked out but got it the wrong way round for example in the pythagoras question you had to divide 9 by 2 to get 4.5 but I accidentally divided 6.6 to get 3.3 then done 9 squared minus 3.3 squared and then square rooted the answer and then rounded my final answer, will I atleast get 1 mark for that + the diagram? also on the angle question I added 143 and the missing angle to get 180 and then subtracted 180-90 then subtracted that answer, will I get 1 mark out of the three? also on paper 1 prior to the sector question, I got the formula correct and then 45/360 and then I wrote 1/8 x 3.14 but I simplified 8 and 20 by dividing by 4 by accident when I shouldn't have, do I get the lowest mark for atleast showing some evidence????? :frown:

(. I have answered all the questions and mixed up the two formulas for the triangle questions. In the end can the SQA award me at the least 1 mark out of the 3 for some working but the wrong answer at the end? :frown:

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Can somebody please watch this video ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WflhR8RUd-0

Its the 2nd last question from Paper 2 2016 Nat 5

I may be incorrect but isn't the final answer 4.8 + 6.6 (Not +9 as shown in the video).
Isn't it the radius of the circle which is from the centre to the circumference so it should be 6.6, right ?

Thanks

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Original post by Ethan100

Can somebody please watch this video ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WflhR8RUd-0

Its the 2nd last question from Paper 2 2016 Nat 5

I may be incorrect but isn't the final answer 4.8 + 6.6 (Not +9 as shown in the video).
Isn't it the radius of the circle which is from the centre to the circumference so it should be 6.6, right ?

Thanks

It is meant to be 6.6cm added onto the 4.8cm you worked out using Pythagoras.

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Original post by S_x_x

It is meant to be 6.6cm added onto the 4.8cm you worked out using Pythagoras.

Yeah thanks, I was wondering why he added 9.

How did you find the exam ? Good/Bad What do you think you will get?

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Original post by Ethan100

Yeah thanks, I was wondering why he added 9.

How did you find the exam ? Good/Bad What do you think you will get?

Not too bad, but not great either. That paper 1 was absolutely nothing like what they put in the model papers for this session. I still don't understand that question in paper 1 about simplifying tan^2xcos^2x

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Original post by S_x_x

Not too bad, but not great either. That paper 1 was absolutely nothing like what they put in the model papers for this session. I still don't understand that question in paper 1 about simplifying tan^2xcos^2x

I just had quite a lot of silly mistakes, By looking at the paper solutions and harshly marking it I think I got 25/50, I got 32/40 in my prelim but I just wasn't expecting that Paper, anyway I did great in paper 2.

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