OCR FSMQ Additional Maths - 20th June 2017

I'm aiming for both lol, but I think a 9 and a B would be better than an 8 and an A tbh, especially considering the fact we've been doing 1 hour a week of additional maths for 1.5 terms, whereas we've been doing 3-4 hours a week of maths for 2 years, plus all the stuff we did before year 10.
What have you been typically scoring in maths mocks?

I agree with you completely. I am taking maths from Edexcel and we have done a few mocks till now. I'll list my marks per mock. They aren't really good because I tend to act like a know it all and end up losing marks on simple questions which is bad :c

Mock 1: 210/240
Mock 2: 238/240 (I did well in this one probably because a lot of the questions were similar to the ones I have done before)
Mock 3: 215/240

How about you, what have you been getting?

238?!?! Wow!
I'm also on Edexcel
We've only done 2 mocks so far, and we start our last set tomorrow!
November mock: 200/240
February mock: 212/240

I'm hoping to get up to 220-225 as I reckon that should secure the grade, but who knows lol. Have a couple of topics which I need to work on, but apart from that it's making sure my work is clear and not making silly mistakes so I'm going to use this mock to see how much longer it takes for me to make sure everything I do is clear as I usually don't have that much spare time, so I need to make sure I'm not going to run out of time in the actual exam!

Yeah. Same here. Just as a warning though, if you do the same set as we just recently did, you might want to focus a lot on writing your statements xD I lost almost 20 marks combined because my statements were missing from the work. Good luck and all the best!! Let me know how they go

So do you think we'll have an easier paper from last year's one? I think we are going to because last year it was like 58!!

From what I assume, the paper will be anything but easier from last years paper. A lot of the stuff from additional has moved to the new 9-1 maths so the exam board will be trying to make a challenging paper which stretches the knowledge beyond the normal questions. I would say it will be harder than last years although the grade boundaries might be lowered; however, I might be completely wrong (I hope I am xD)

But you see not everybody is doing 9-1 GCSE, like myself who is doing the IGCSE, plus wouldn't OCR want to make a point that the GCSEs need to be made harder and thus making this year's paper easier would prove their point. I'm not sure if this is a hope more than anything!

I'm not exactly sure but a major reason why the 2016 paper was hard was that they wanted to build up how hard the paper would be for our year rather than having a massive increase in difficulty. Thus the 2015 paper was easy, 2016 was hard and the 2017 will be harder.

I do however get your point and maybe that might be true but how I see it, onky certain people with high ability enter for additional which is why the paper is generally hard bcz it makes you think more than a normal gcse paper.

Had my last Ad maths lessons today as my teacher is leaving on Friday. I'm gonna miss it so much, definitely need to keep working, but I reckon I could get a decent grade if I do a few past papers so I get used to the questions some more
How're everyone's GCSEs going?

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Praying for thursday's exam :c scared of doing bad lol.

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Hope maths went well for everyone!
I'm ready to learn all of the course over the weekend lol.
I haven't done any maths at all apart from the exams since the 21st May! Just the way lessons fell over exams and my maths teacher left at half term (cry) so I CBA to go to lessons with a random teacher who doesn't know us that well when our teacher is still emailing us regularly with work if we want it.
I'm most worried about:
a) Not knowing what the question wants me to do
b) The mechanics bits that we didn't really learn properly

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Does anyone have a copy of the 2016 paper?

And good luck to everyone sitting it!!

Hey all! I'm gonna do June 14, 15 and 16 this weekend also aiming for an A, but seem to be just scraping it if I'm honest! From the sound of it these are a lot harder, any general advice for add maths apart from doing appears?

Im sure youll be fine in mechanics. Hopefully the paper won't be that bad on tuesday. I need to go over the entire content in 1 day though because I need to work on my physics and bio exam which are next week as well