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Official OCR Core 2 (NON MEI) thread 24/5/2017

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How did you find this exam?

Amazing! :woo: 21%
Good :H 26%
OKAY. :bebored: 21%
Bad... :cry2: 14%
HORRIBLE PAPER!! :@18%
Total votes: 332
Well there was one for C1, why not C2! What do we think's gonna come up based on the last one? How are we feeling?

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Original post by jhuk510
Well there was one for C1, why not C2! What do we think's gonna come up based on the last one? How are we feeling?


For clarity, is this for MEI?
Original post by Kevin De Bruyne
For clarity, is this for MEI?

Nope non-mei
Original post by jhuk510
Well there was one for C1, why not C2! What do we think's gonna come up based on the last one? How are we feeling?


My teacher thinks it will be relatively easy based on the difficulty of the core 1 paper. I'm not sure - all of the maths papers so far this year have been a bit weird :/
Original post by Franki108
My teacher thinks it will be relatively easy based on the difficulty of the core 1 paper. I'm not sure - all of the maths papers so far this year have been a bit weird :/


I certainly agree, although if you look at C1 and C2 in tandem from last year they both seem to be equally terrible. I know nothing about the A2 stuff this year but I know C1 and FP1 have been considerably harder than past papers :frown: my teacher thinks series, logs, all the normal stuff will come up. Good luck!
Original post by jhuk510
I certainly agree, although if you look at C1 and C2 in tandem from last year they both seem to be equally terrible. I know nothing about the A2 stuff this year but I know C1 and FP1 have been considerably harder than past papers :frown: my teacher thinks series, logs, all the normal stuff will come up. Good luck!


Thanks, good luck to you too :smile:. My friend says M2 was quite weird as well. I'm hoping to do well in C2 to make up for the disaster that was C1!!
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Original post by jhuk510
I certainly agree, although if you look at C1 and C2 in tandem from last year they both seem to be equally terrible. I know nothing about the A2 stuff this year but I know C1 and FP1 have been considerably harder than past papers :frown: my teacher thinks series, logs, all the normal stuff will come up. Good luck!


Yeah, FP1 in particular was a nightmare. :/ x
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Good luck everyone! :smile:
Original post by Alodia
Yeah, FP1 in particular was a nightmare. :/ x

I heard from a friend :frown:
Good luck everyone! Any last minute tactics?
Based on the C1 we had, I'm not looking forward to this C2 :/
is this the last exam season for this spec or am I hearing the wrong things?
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Original post by ThatsAGoodOne349
Based on the C1 we had, I'm not looking forward to this C2 :/
is this the last exam season for this spec or am I hearing the wrong things?


yeh its the last of the modular tests. From next year the course will be linear
Original post by the*man
yeh its the last of the modular tests. From next year the course will be linear

Then it's gonna be awkward soo much.
Gonna like this one (!)
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Original post by jhuk510
I heard from a friend :frown:
Good luck everyone! Any last minute tactics?


yeh any last minute revision techniques?
Original post by the*man
yeh any last minute revision techniques?


I'm just going through past papers. what is everyone else doing?
same same, hit me up with one of the hardest c2 papers you've done? except for 16' ofcourse
Original post by futurepornstar
same same, hit me up with one of the hardest c2 papers you've done? except for 16' ofcourse


Try the Solomon paper L - question 2 in particular is horrible!!

http://pmt.physicsandmathstutor.com/download/Maths/A-level/C2/Papers-Solomon/for-OCR/Solomon%20L%20QP%20-%20C2%20OCR.pdf
4 (i) Find the binomial expansion of (2 + x) 5 , simplifying the terms.
[4] (ii) Hence find the coefficient of y 3 in the expansion of (2 + 3y + y 2 ) 5 . [3]

guys help with the second part?????!
Original post by talulah_bay
4 (i) Find the binomial expansion of (2 + x) 5 , simplifying the terms.
[4] (ii) Hence find the coefficient of y 3 in the expansion of (2 + 3y + y 2 ) 5 . [3]

guys help with the second part?????!


I think you expand it like you would the first part but use (3y+y^2) in the place of x.
So it would be:

2^5 + 5x2^4x(3y+y^2) + ... etc.

:smile:
(edited 6 years ago)
I'm soo scared about core 2
Core 1 was a living nightmare. As we walked out of the hall one of the teachers was like 'That exam was hard wasn't it?'
I wanted to cry
If the course goes linear, does that mean we cant retake any specific modules? for example re take c1 if we wanted to redeem ourselves from that awful paper we had last week

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