Getting to Cambridge: STEP by STEP!

Reply 940

Student403

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Original post by tinkerbella~

Pretty much Zain whenever he sees me

Original post by Zacken

my life story

Damn bro you weren't joking

Reply 941

Zacken

OP

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Grade boundary analysis:

C12: Should be cool.
C34: lol screwed
F1: lol super screwed
M1: lol screwed
M2: Not bad.
M3: lol screwed
S1: Good boundaries on a module I don't need them on, u srs edexcel?!
S2: Seriously screwed here, might resit afterall?
Physics 1: Defo screwed
Physics 2: nice one
Physics 3: nice one

Reply 942

Ethereal World

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Original post by Zacken

Grade boundary analysis:

C12: Should be cool.
C34: lol screwed
F1: lol super screwed
M1: lol screwed
M2: Not bad.
M3: lol screwed
S1: Good boundaries on a module I don't need them on, u srs edexcel?!
S2: Seriously screwed here, might resit afterall?
Physics 1: Defo screwed
Physics 2: nice one
Physics 3: nice one

Overall index of grade boundaries: lol screwed

Reply 943

Zacken

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Original post by Ethereal World

Overall index of grade boundaries: lol screwed

That would seem to be the modal reaction, yes. :lol:

Reply 944

Ethereal World

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Original post by Zacken

That would seem to be the modal reaction, yes. :lol:

And I think if the options were given a number out of 10 for relative screwedness the mean would come out closest to lol screwed probs.

Aka
Lol screwed/10

:tongue:

Reply 945

Number Nine

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Original post by Zacken

Grade boundary analysis:

C12: Should be cool.
C34: lol screwed
F1: lol super screwed
M1: lol screwed
M2: Not bad.
M3: lol screwed
S1: Good boundaries on a module I don't need them on, u srs edexcel?!
S2: Seriously screwed here, might resit afterall?
Physics 1: Defo screwed
Physics 2: nice one
Physics 3: nice one

Lol

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Reply 946

Zacken

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Just finished STEP II, 2004. I'll mark it in the morning, but I reckon I did pretty well given that it was a pretty hard paper and the grade boundaries were low. I averaged 20 minutes per question except for one question where I spent an hour and 6 minutes on. :rofl:

I reckon I got full solutions to Q1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8 and 12. Woot! I thought I'd scraped six solutions, listing them out just now shows that I actually did 7, I'm pleased. :biggrin:

Reply 947

Imperion

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Original post by Student403

I never understood why it means 'excited'

Honestly it looks like a guy spasming making a kissy face

PRSOM

Whoa, this thread got no chill :rofl:

Reply 948

Zacken

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Original post by Imperion

PRSOM

Whoa, this thread got no chill :rofl:

That's the best part of this thread tbh :rofl:

Reply 949

Imperion

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Original post by Zacken

That's the best part of this thread tbh :rofl:

Lmao always gets me laughing :rofl:

And the motivation to get off this site more :ninja:

Reply 950

Zacken

OP

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Original post by Imperion

Lmao always gets me laughing :rofl:

And the motivation to get off this site more :ninja:

Are you trying to quit TSR or something? :redface:

Reply 951

Imperion

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Original post by Zacken

Are you trying to quit TSR or something? :redface:

Shh! Don't tell anyone! :ninja:

Spoiler

Reply 952

username1162972

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Original post by Zacken

Grade boundary analysis:

C12: Should be cool.
C34: lol screwed
F1: lol super screwed
M1: lol screwed
M2: Not bad.
M3: lol screwed
S1: Good boundaries on a module I don't need them on, u srs edexcel?!
S2: Seriously screwed here, might resit afterall?
Physics 1: Defo screwed
Physics 2: nice one
Physics 3: nice one

When u get results. Good luck, you should be more then fine for A*A*A tbh

Reply 953

Ayman!

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Okay @Zacken, here's the question, it's number 3 on this paper. I got through most of it, but I can't for the life of me show what's required. It's an interesting problem Sam showed me. (2nd ever STEP Q lol)

Here's my working:

As you can see, I'm not proceeding very far :tongue:

By the way, try checking if you can get your results here? I know it's a long shot, but it might just work.

Reply 954

Zacken

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Original post by aymanzayedmannan

Okay @Zacken, here's the question, it's number 3 on this paper. I got through most of it, but I can't for the life of me show what's required. It's an interesting problem Sam showed me. (2nd ever STEP Q lol)

Here's my working:

As you can see, I'm not proceeding very far :tongue:

I'm very impressed! That's pretty much everything except for one or two lines of working. :biggrin:

All you need to do from

\displaystyle a = 7\sqrt{1 + \cdots}

is to say that

\sqrt{1 + \cdots} \approx 1 + \cdots

So

a = 7 + 7\cdots

. (you can take it from here?) This is a bit of a leap of faith to make, I agree - but it's helped somewhat by you knowing you want to get to

a + 7\eta

.

By the way, try checking if you can get your results here? I know it's a long shot, but it might just work.

Darn, that got my heart racing. Doesn't work, thanks for trying it though! :biggrin:

Reply 955

Zacken

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STEP II, 2004:

Total time: 3 hours. Total mark: 113/120.

Overall thoughts: This was a pretty nice paper, I felt. I'm writing this before I've started marking so hopefully things won't go awry. The grade boundaries are astronomically low here and I'm unsure why. On a side note, I'm continually amazed by how much paper a STEP mock takes up. :eek:

Q1: Very pleased with my solution here. Took me 15 minutes because I spotted a shortcut that turned a 3 part problem into a 2 part one. 20/20.
Q2: I liked the concept of this question, it took me slightly longer to do - 20 minutes and a few seconds but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Got another full 20/20 here. I even ended up doing more justification that was necessary for the graph, which was really nice.
Q3: This was a bit of a long question, took me 20 minutes and a bit but it was long in the sense of lots of algebra, arithmetic and sketching. I said something was a maximum when it was a minimum and I even sketched it correctly as a minimum, so I'm cutting one mark there - my graphs were a bit out of proportion, even though the general shape was correct, so I reckon giving myself 17/20 is fair.
Q5: This was another long question, 25 minutes or so. The algebra and integration was tedious. I managed to waddle through it all correctly, somehow... 20/20.
Q8: This was surprisingly short! It took 15 minutes. Cutting myself one mark for not dealing with the modulus properly. So 19/20 seems fair to me here, there was barely any work required. :dontknow:

Q7: I essentially fluked my way through this one and used a lot of dodgy justification, so I'm going to cut 5 marks right off the bat. 15/20. Took me another 15 minutes, might have been able to do better had I invested some proper thought into it instead of bashing everything with Taylor series.
Q12: So, this question took up the remaining hour because I had no other question to do that I liked the look of. Had to restart it a good two or three times, missed the splitting of the modes into two cases, so that's 3 marks off the bat. But everything else looks correct, so I'm giving myself 17/20.

Pleased I managed to get 7 solutions, especially because of that ugly 15/20 on Q7. Also fairly happy in general because the S was at 80/120. This is a definite booster from not doing well on my A-Levels.

(edited 8 years ago)

Reply 956

Ayman!

15

Original post by Zacken

I'm very impressed! That's pretty much everything except for one or two lines of working. :biggrin:

All you need to do from

\displaystyle a = 7\sqrt{1 + \cdots}

is to say that

\sqrt{1 + \cdots} \approx 1 + \cdots

So

a = 7 + 7\cdots

. (you can take it from here?) This is a bit of a leap of faith to make, I agree - but it's helped somewhat by you knowing you want to get to

a + 7\eta

.

Darn, that got my heart racing. Doesn't work, thanks for trying it though! :biggrin:

Thank you, Zack Attack! I must admit, that is a lot of assumption to reach that final step. I think I'll do some of this paper tonight for fun :biggrin:

Original post by Zacken

Total mark: 113/120.

Pleased I managed to get 7 solutions, especially because of that ugly 15/20 on Q7. Also fairly happy in general because the S was at 80/120. This is a definite booster from not doing well on my A-Levels.

Very nice! That's a very high S on what seems like a tough paper. And boo, you don't even know your grades yet :angry:

Speaking of which, do you have any idea when you're getting them? Possibly by mail in a few weeks?

(edited 8 years ago)

Reply 957

Zacken

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Original post by aymanzayedmannan

Very nice! That's a very high S on what seems like a tough paper. And boo, you don't even know your grades yet :angry:

It's a very nice paper (the 2000, II) one. Loved every other pure question except Q3 and Q7. You might like to try Q9 if you've covered the relevant M3 bits. :biggrin: