National 5 Maths 2018/19

What i dont get is this WHY DO THEY MAKE THE TESTS BIGGER???!!!! my mate did his in 2017 it was out of 80 now its out of 110 or 120 WHY?? am no smart guy All i want is a C and am probably not gonna get it cuz they make the tests bigger why is that its like they want us people that dont do so well to fail and fell humiliated because we got like 40 overall but in 2017 that would of been 50% now its 36% WTF why do the SQA do this?????!!!

Must be some other people doing Nat 5 maths out there! How are you all getting on?

yess im getting on well :/ i’m confused though..i’m unsure if we need to know exact values at n5 or not??? because I was sure that was higher however some of my friends from other schools have been told to memorise them? now i’m stressing because I wasn’t told this..any help would be appreciated ps. good luck to everyone on their exams

Moved to the National 5 maths thread, as the other one was 2 years old...Previously, the Nat 5 maths papers were out of 90 (split as 40 and 50), but now they are out of 110 (50 and 60)...At the end of the day, it is still out of 100%.
I'm in agreement with you in that I don't really agree with the SQA making them longer, as it seems like a bit of a backwards step, and teachers are still going to give some form of unit assessments anyway, so the reason of wanting to lessen how much candidates are examined, to me at least, isn't a great one.
However, in terms of what is required to get each grade, as a notional percentage this is not affected by the changes, and there hasn't been anything to suggest that candidates are worse off (as if they are doing worse, grade boundaries will reflect this). I'm pretty sure that the proportion of 'C level questions' within the papers also hasn't changed, so you shouldn't be at a disadvantage to candidates in previous years.

How's everyone feeling about the exam this week?

ok I think but I really want 100 percent so I can get the award but I know several people will get full marks in my year so I'm under a lot of pressure

ok I think but I really want 100 percent so I can get the award but I know several people will get full marks in my year so I'm under a lot of pressure

How does that work for you? Because for us prize giving is just before the holidays but we don't get our results until August. I'm quite curious- like if you did really well would they let your school know or something?
Not trying to get an award in maths but would like one in some of my other subjects.

Your school probably does it based on prelims or performance throughout the year...Your school find out your results usually a few days before you do, but they're not allowed to share those until results day, so it won't be based on the final exam if they do it before summer.

ah ok.
I thought it was a bit weird because at prizegiving last year there were people getting prizes for each subject at each level so I was just wondering how that worked. It's a bit stupid tbh especially if you did better in your final exam than in your prelim.

Yeah, I agree it's a bit weird that some schools do it that way, and would probably be better for it to be based on final exams. In the grand scheme, although they are nice if you get them, they're not all that important though- a bigger reward is knowing you've smashed the real exams when it really counted

How's everyone feeling about the exam this week?

I got an A in the prelim but I’d say our prelim was far easier than the sqa past papers. I’m stressing so much and burnt out from today’s exam.

Omg same, I'm so tired and I only have one more day to revise eek! I really want to do well but I am scared they are going to make it quite a difficult paper

yeh same! I’m leaving it tonight I’m too tired but going to mass revise tomorrow. Yeah they weren’t too vigilant or easy on us in the modern exam I can see them doing the same in maths :/ great