Teh Super Awesome Juicy CURRENT YEAR 11 (2012-13) THREAD; MARK I

That's the point I was making - it's far easier than it should be (opinion) and used to be (fact).

Aw at least you're not stuck with C's :/

That's the point I was making - it's far easier than it should be (opinion) and used to be (fact).

You have been manipulated by Gove oh no,how do you know the exams are definetley harder you would have to sit both courses,including the teaching at the time of courses to even have a clue and you would have to sit them at the same time and even then you wouldn't know because you might be more suited to one form of examination,compared to other people.

I agree that the maths exams are too easy though and always have been they should be including factorising x cubed into GCSE and finding the areas under curves and maybe Bionomial Expansion as a challenge and Bionomial Expansion is quite tough.

I had area under curve in my exams... This year...

Not in GCSE though? because thats A-Level,C2 on most boards

Yes, in my GCSE exam, I had to calculate the area under a graph with ordinates 0 - 5... I used integration... But then I realized it said trapezium rule.. My answers were the same accurate to the nearest ten they.were about 5 sq units away..

Yeah, but it's not fair how your year had easier exams than what we'll have... By the way I got my mathematics grade now so I can start actually sitting exams



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I never knew there was another way to calculate the area under the curve,I bet integration is the easier way I don't like shape very much.Did you also have to calculate arbitary units between points or not? just wondering.

I guess at least mine was a short course, but there's now way I'm doing better in Engineering and it's double award, so I'm going to end with 3 and a half C's ;(

Basic Differentiation and Integration are a lot easier than non-right angeled trig though
Basic Differentiation is just putting the power in front of the x and taking one of the x and integration is just the reverse and adding a c at the end,factorising 2+x^2 quadratics is probably harder.There is a decent bit of A-Level content is easier than the top levels of GCSE that is put there so people can get E grades and I seen a GCSE question,on a C4 paper before-it required no A-Level knowledge.

We had to calculate the gradient of the curve...
Area under the curve with the trapezium rule...
And they gave the ordinates...

That's all... Worth a few marks too



Aah, but yiu can push it up now!

You have been manipulated by Gove oh no,how do you know the exams are definetley harder you would have to sit both courses,including the teaching at the time of courses to even have a clue and you would have to sit them at the same time and even then you wouldn't know because you might be more suited to one form of examination,compared to other people.

I agree that the maths exams are too easy though and always have been they should be including factorising x cubed into GCSE and finding the areas under curves and maybe Bionomial Expansion as a challenge and Bionomial Expansion is quite tough.

This is true, but applying them to find tangental equations and areas (and the matrix manipulation I mentioned that you ignored) are harder than subbing values into the sine and cosine rules, and that's the common type of question you'd recieve with simple calculus.
True, some A-Level stuff can be done with GCSE knowledge, but to be honest that has no bearing on my point, that GCSE Maths has become much, much easier recently.

NaCO3 + HCl ---> NaCl + H2O + CO2

That's not balanced

Sodium Carbonate + Hydrochloric Acid ---> Sodium Chloride + Water + Carbon Dioxide

I disagree with you - I must have been manipulated, oh no!

I know the exams are harder because they used to contain complex questions that required creativity as well as a broader knowledge than the exams do nowadays. You only have to attempt an old paper to see that, or look at the syllabi.

Woops I meant 2 and a half, but Citizenship is done, and Engineering is just nooooooo

So a metal and an acid always produces water and carbon dioxide, and you just see what's left? xD
Are there any other rules for other types of materials?

These are the three rules:

Acid + Metal Oxide ---> Salt + Water

2HCl + CuO ---> CuCl2 + H2O

Acid + Metal Hydroxide ---> Salt + Water

HNO3 + NaOH ---> NaNO3 + H2O

Acid + Carbonate ---> Salt + Water + Carbon Dioxide

H2SO4 + CaCO3 ---> CaSO4 + H2O + CO2

Acid + Ammonia ---> Ammonium Salt

Nitric Acid + Ammonia ---> Ammonium Nitrate

That doesn't add up to three xD
So which is the one where hydrogen gas is produced?

Glad you all liked it haha

That doesn't add up to three xD
So which is the one where hydrogen gas is produced?

What three?