C1 Edexcel C1 13 January 2012 - how did you find it?

im wondering if they lower the grade boundries, if someone got like 67 anyway will their percentage go up or will it remain the same because im guessing the overallpercentage over all the exams is what really matters

Am I the only one who found this impossible? Im not the greatest of students I must say but i walked in being the most prepared for an exam i have been on my life. Having done like 15 past papers all to come 75-85%, i have encountered all sorts of little twists from 2002-2011.

I went mad at the salarys question, did it all the different ways i could think off always to end up with t=0. Did this happen to any of you?

And the area of triangle series one i knew everything right i just see the question see what ive been given and work it out but here there were no coordinates nothing just an equation. I went mad coming up with new of my own methods which i hadnt been taught in my life.

Dunno listening to you here im starting to think im thick but i just dont understand this trying to make people not to pass. I mean whats the point, you've been taught something, i dont expect the answers to come up like on the book but why do you always try to catch people with so many complications? i have been taught that in the subject have I?

Doing so many past papers i could see how from about 2008 they started putting these traps and every year after they got worse and worse. Why man why?

Well sorry for the big chunk i just had to get it out of me hehe

Man i cant explain it better than you. I done every C1 paper from 2000 and something. I got like 70-73 on them all. And i realised the previous A level exams have less traps and they were testing on what you learnt but now we get all these traps in the exam. Its almost like they dont want us to pass/get a good grade. I was soo confident b4 i walked in to get an A but but the first 1-4 or 5 questions were repaeated so were very good and then it turned out to be anightmare. The salary question omg confused me soo much i tried so many different methods aswell. It said the Sn for scheme 1 was the same as the Sn for scheme 2. This stupid statement made me make them equal to each other and get 0. Why say they are the same when they arenot? People told me you had to wotk out the Sn for scheme 2 aswell. BUT the statement in the paper said the Sn was the same so why would someone go and waste VALUABLE time working out an Sn for scheme 2. VERY annoyed at this RUBBISH paper.

The Sn was equal for both schemes, so you had something to work from to find out the variables. You didn't have to find it, so why would you?

under a month to go, guys!!!

thats my question i had the sn for scheme 1 so why would i work out the sn for scheme 2 if they are the same.

You didn't, you used the Equation to find t!

thats my question i had the sn for scheme 1 so why would i work out the sn for scheme 2 if they are the same.

hi how are u? can i ask you do u think the frade boundarie will be less than 58!

The total of the series was same, not the series.