It's strange - at the time my answers seemed coherent but I have a feeling the marker will look at my paper and just see demonic scribblings of insanity and panic.
I am still confused - why does mentioning that I personally struggled with STEP compromise the integrity of the exam in any way? Also I may have missed something here, but is it actually stated anywhere that how you found the paper isn't to be discussed? I couldn't find anything.
The embargo has obviously expired but if you still want me to remove comments of course I will...
I am still confused - why does mentioning that I personally struggled with STEP compromise the integrity of the exam in any way? Also I may have missed something here, but is it actually stated anywhere that how you found the paper isn't to be discussed? I couldn't find anything.
Because it lets the other person know that the paper is difficult, so he shouldn't panic overly much if the paper isn't going well, something that you didn't know during the exam because you thought everybody else would find it easy or whatever. In any case, it's giving information to a candidate that other candidates don't have. That's not going to cut it.
Then again, if you want to damage your own chances, so be it...
The embargo has obviously expired but if you still want me to remove comments of course I will...
The damage has been done, there's obviously no point in removing it now, but remember for future papers.
Because it lets the other person know that the paper is difficult, so he shouldn't panic overly much if the paper isn't going well, something that you didn't know during the exam because you thought everybody else would find it easy or whatever.
I sort of assumed it was taken for granted that STEP would be challenging, but having done many past papers it's clear the difficulty fluctuates an awful lot, so I suppose seeing other stressed about STEP would likely calm your nerves slightly (unfairly) before entering the exam - hopefully this didn't happen but your point is fair enough.
I used pencil if thats what you mean. Although its says to use pen on the answer booklet, on the ATS site directly under the step section it does say hard pencil is fine.
Nope, even i wasn't allowed to. If fact they didn't even let me use a fountain pen. I was forced to use a ball-point pen
Although I always use pen, I have to say that writing in pencil is way better, it's so easy to correct things/trial different ideas and you don't get a massive mess of scribbles all over your work unlike with pen.
Yeah A distinction in AEA is much easier than a 2 in STEP I. Id say AEA is more comparable to the MAT than STEP.
I would say MAT is certainly harder than AEA (at least in my opinion), I messed up my MAT so bad that I didn't ask for my mark but Imperial still accepted me lol.