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Cass - Diagnostic Mathematics Test

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All new students of City’s business programmes (Cass) will take part in a mathematics test during the first introduction week.

According to the information I received by post – past papers and syllabuses are not available. I have not studied math since about 2 years (in my home country Sweden&#8230 :wink:

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Do anyone know what type of mathematics I should study to prepare myself for this test.

Its supposed to measure the current levels of mathematics ability to orange tutorial groups for the quantitative methods elective (I have no idea what this course incorporates&#8230 :wink:

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Reply 1

sumitk87

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i was in yr position exactly 1 year ago :rolleyes:

well basically all you need to kno is its multiple choice and u get put in tutorials according to yr abilities. So if u are not very good at maths or have forgotton it then you will have more hours of tutorial and lectures.

i can remember roughly wat was onit but me telling you will could get u in a set which you will regret later on during the year

BUT if u wanna kno then i can give you a rough idea. I didnt revise for it and found it ok, no rocket science or anything lol dont worry !

Sumit

Reply 2

kiwy

I agree with Sumit there's no point really in "preparing" for it cuz at the end of the day you will have to face the module exam (QM is basically Maths!) and it's the one people fear most. So...if you happen to be worse than average you'll get more tutorials and maybe more lectures, but I don't see any harm in that. In fact it's meant to get everyone to an equal level at the end of year 1, obviously with different intensity.

But to be fair - just like Sumit I was in the same situation a year ago - so I know how it feels especially when you're coming from abroad. Just take a look at last year's thread http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=132717
there is a link to a sample test. BEWARE: this is the one for actuarial science people and thus a bit different to the one other Cass students have to do. However, the outlay and categories are quite similar.

Reply 3

MrBing

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Thanks guys. I really appreciate it. I agree with you – math is not my strongest subject and I would prefer to have more lectures in order to obtain a good mark.

I had a look at the PDF file and I actually found it quite easy – the math I did in high school was much more complicated.

Do you remember if you were allowed to use calculators?

Reply 4

kiwy

MrBing

Thanks guys. I really appreciate it. I agree with you – math is not my strongest subject and I would prefer to have more lectures in order to obtain a good mark.

I had a look at the PDF file and I actually found it quite easy – the math I did in high school was much more complicated.

Do you remember if you were allowed to use calculators?

No, calculators were not allowed! That's why the questions are designed in a seemingly easy manner. Well in a way they are, because you're basic understanding of the various fields within Maths are being assessed. It's nothing highly complex.
However, for those of you who are coming from Non-English speaking countries, I do advise you to look at some basic vocabulary. I basically knew most of the stuff but never heard of all those terms (particularly questions concerning statistics) so I had to guess :eek:

Reply 5

MrBing

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kiwy

No, calculators were not allowed! That's why the questions are designed in a seemingly easy manner. Well in a way they are, because you're basic understanding of the various fields within Maths are being assessed. It's nothing highly complex.
However, for those of you who are coming from Non-English speaking countries, I do advise you to look at some basic vocabulary. I basically knew most of the stuff but never heard of all those terms (particularly questions concerning statistics) so I had to guess :eek:

OK, thanks. Yeah, I guess that the most 'complex' part for us students that comes from non-english speaking countries would be to understand the terms.

Edit: So a very bad result on the test could still result in a 1st/2nd mark in the module? The result on this test would have no influence on the final mark right?

Reply 6

cherc2005

I did this test last year. All Cass courses sit the same diagnostic test apart from Acturial Science people, who sit a harder exam (i think)

Its multiple choice, some questions are very easy (equiv of basic gcse), some are a little harder (alevel - P1, maybe a very small amount of P2 - prob 1 or 2 questions max). I dont think calculators are allowed.

If you did A-Level maths you will be fine.
If u didnt, it would be useful to revise bits and pieces.
I think the hardest you may get is basic logs, basic calculus.

The uni only uses the test to put you into different groups for the mathamatical modules during the year, if you do well/poorly they do not think good/bad of u or anything. If you dont do as well, you simply just do a couple hours extra a week. I think theres 12 groups, groups 1-6 do say 2hours a week, groups 7-12 do 4 hours.

Its not a big deal. Good luck anyway.

Reply 7

kevins

thanks great help "cherc"

Reply 8

MrBing

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Thanks mate!!

Reply 9

cherc2005

kevins

thanks great help "cherc"

no problem "kevins" :smile:

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v2006

Can someone tell me if people have narrowly missed their aab offer and got abb and stil lgot in? I know the cass courses were in clearing but they did say they want aab but not quite sure if they also accepted abb grade students? i got AAAc at AS levels in bio chem maths physics and want to do investment bsc course.

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