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Geek Culture / Anybody been doing A level exams this past week?

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David T
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I've had 4 to do, all maths, and I just finished today!

Mechanics (basically, the sort of physics in video games - quite cool)

Statistics (evil)

Pure maths (C1 and C2 today. 3 hours of maths! ).

Anybody else?

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Posted: 16th Jan 2006 18:15
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I did mine about 5 years ago... Bastard things they were!

I did A Level maths (Pure (P1, P2) and Mechanics (M1, M2)). I did the proper A Level, not the new fangled broken ones


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Posted: 16th Jan 2006 18:23 Edited at: 16th Jan 2006 18:24
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Quote: "I did A Level maths (Pure (P1, P2) and Mechanics (M1, M2)). I did the proper A Level, not the new fangled broken ones "


While it goes against everything I believe modules aren't that bad really.

I'm doing further maths, so I'll end up taking this year:

C1
C2
C3
C4 (used to be P1,2,3,4 just they're rearranged it.)

M1
M2

S1
D1

and then next year it'll be some FP1,2, M3/4, D2, S2 I think.

My favourite exam was M1. Quite satisfying to do. Although my favourite type is Discrete - just started it. It's literally programming!

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good luck to everyone taking exams


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That's AS level? that's a lot of modules lol. I did P1,P2 and S1 in my AS levels and then P3, M1 and M2 for A level (OK I didn't do further maths)

Good luck!

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David T
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Posted: 16th Jan 2006 20:07
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Quote: "That's AS level? that's a lot of modules lol."


Nah - I'm doing FM, so you basically go a whole Maths A Level first year. Then you do it all again the second

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Posted: 16th Jan 2006 20:10
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Im planning on doing that....

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Cool. It's very fast at the beginning - if you can keep up it's great. I'm doing discrete already. So amazing! Honestly it's so much like programming. They even use "Print" when you need to output something.

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I did C1 the other day. I screwed up on a couple of questions, did you have one about linear sequnces involving a character called Alice?

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Posted: 16th Jan 2006 22:07
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Well I like maths alot so I dont care

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Quote: "I did C1 the other day. I screwed up on a couple of questions, did you have one about linear sequnces involving a character called Alice?"


I only did it today, most likely a different exam board. I do OCR.

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Posted: 16th Jan 2006 22:50 Edited at: 16th Jan 2006 22:52
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My exam in Psycology is next week. I dunno what my current grade % but I've been asking my teacher for it every 2 weeks and he's been making up excuses NOT to give it to me everytime.

I never really had the "Teacher is out to get me" argument because I know that if I fail, it's my own fault. But just this time, I am going to be extremly pissed if he lured me to believe my mark was fine throughout the semester by not telling it to me, then fail me quietly in the end.
Because that's what it appears like.
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Ah yeah it's different boards. Basically I couldn't work out:

32,000 = n/2 [2(400) + (n-1)(200)]

And lost 5 marks

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Ah yes - that AP formula. There are two aren't there?

0.5n(a + l)
0.5n(2a + (n-1)d)

That was on our C2 syllabus. There was a particuarly nice Q on C2, it was solve

tan x = 4 cos x

Not that hard if you know the identities!

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