The panic thread!

Yes, haha hence why I passed maths with a 2

I really do want to do standard grades again

You're not meant to do it with completing the square though XD

Maths is jobbies
as is english, anybody got help on how to revise for textual analysis, I failed the last one
I would be revising the now but eh, im watching the sperm program for 'biology', even though we don't do it

Textual analysis to me was a bit like a difficult close reading for me. Be very explicit in all your analysis and evaluation. With analysis always state what the imagery you are analysing is, then say what is being compared and say why the two things are being compared. WIth evaluation just go one step further and say whether you think it is effective or not. Whatever you say for that can be considered right as long as you justify it in some way, so don't worry about being "right" with evaluation.

yeah i cant remember exactly but ther were two questions that were iher level, or at least not in the standard grade curriculum, one on completing the square (which luckily we had done anyway) and another one. I was told, by someone in the loop, that you ony needed 48% to get a 1...

Read my post at the top of the page.

I'm replying to this because it kinda irritates me, nothing personal though

It wasn't a higher question, it was a problem solving question that could and should be solved using standard grade methods but with higher knowledge would be much easier. People only noticed it because it was so obvious to those with higher knowlegde that completing the square would make it simple.

It should have been a problem solving question. It was actually under the KU section. Out of interest how do you do it without higher knowledge? I remember sitting there and thinking something like
"Well I have to put $x^2 - 10x + 18$ in the from $(x-a)^2 + b$ so $a=5$ in order to get the 10x and just kind of worked from there. Definitley a mistake on the SQA's part for putting it as a KU Question though as it was outiwth the knowledge gained through Standard Grade, although putting it as a problem solving question would be fine.

Edit: Maths is great. Much better than writing an essay. :tounge:

Ugh, if I could go back a few months I'd make sure I did my physics project before chemistry, or at least not try and do them simultaneously. I'll worry about exams later. :P

You and me both

The time and effort involved with them really isn't worth the few crummy marks we get, it's rubbish.