Maths - Paper I or II Harder?

md99

Which of the two was the more difficult in your opinion?......

And no 'neither, both were piss' kinda answers from the mathletes please..:o

I think Paper II was easier, which I was extremely surprised with, I mean in terms of a's and b's ......it was delightful if you ask me. Some of the c's were much more difficult, but Tan-1x for Q8..... !!!!!!! What a sweet finish. Also, the theorems on Paper II were an easy 40 marks between Trig and Probability... I was disappointed there were none at all on Paper I, and no induction save for that crap in Q4 after I learned nearly every type of induction off! aghh... HATED the integration question, and Q4. also i HATED complex numbers... not because it was hard, because i f**ked up on part b of all parts and got the answer as 0. don't ask me how...

I think Paper I had 2 easy Diff, an easy Q5 and Q1/2...
Paper II had two easy Trig and two easy Probability AND that lovely Q8 to boot... so my votes with I

cocoa

I didn't really have any major problems with either paper (I did eight questions in each) but paper 2 took me longer and I made more silly mistakes so I rated it as harder, but maybe I was just tired/complacent or something

KnifeWRENCH

ya paper II was easier...at least i know i passed now
but i am completely kicking myself over the option question...the integration by parts...it was probably the easiest part (c) EVER....and i completely blanked!!!! after my geography exam,on the way home in the car,i suddenly remembered (out of nowhere) how to do it.....UUGH >:( its gonna haunt me forever
but ya probability was fine
vectors were grand.
the line was (mostly ) okay
trig was a bit dodgy but i got okay marks.
the option was my worst...i couldnt do part (a) didnt have a clue! and of course i blanked (c) aswell...but overall i was happy enough.
still just about on course for a C2,which i got in my pre

JC 2K3

They were both of equal difficulty really, paper 2 left more room for error and I had a bad day so....

Enemy Of Fate

Well I don't see how ANYONE could say that the OL Paper 2 was easier than Paper 1.....so I'm gonna say Paper 2 was much, MUCH harder than paper 1.

adam_ccfc

Not sure, tbh! I thought initially that Paper 2 was slightly more difficult, but I'd say much of a muchness in hindsight. Overall, I was pleased, I thought it was a relatively easy paper.

Mushy

I think Paper 2 was harder, based on my estimates that I didnt get as many marks on it. I always found that paper more difficult anyway, but this was easy enough in relation to others.

sternn

Paper 2 by far...partly because I didn't know half of the stuff...and not understanding it fully.

Estimates:

Paper 1: 80%
Paper 2: 60%

Which makes 70% overall (on my estimation) which I would be happy with (only need a C3 for my course)

cossyx

Thought paper 2 was that bit easier than paper 1, feel I did better in it anyway..:D

lemansky

I found that if you were going for a b or a c grade,the papers were equal, but the c parts in paper 2 were harder than in paper 1 so if you were going for an a and they therefore mattered big time to you, paper 2 was harder to do well in....

JC 2K3

lemansky wrote:

I found that if you were going for a b or a c grade,the papers were equal, but the c parts in paper 2 were harder than in paper 1 so if you were going for an a and they therefore mattered big time to you, paper 2 was harder to do well in....

QFT.

I think I got 100% in (a) and (b) parts in paper one, and between 95 and 100% in paper two.

As for the part (c)s, well in paper one I got about 80% in em and about 70% in paper two.

Besides 6(c), the part (c)s in paper one were fairly predictible, however, the part (c)s in paper two were more different than usual.

genericgoon

paper 2 was harder but thats mainly because i prefer teh paper one topics

Naikon

Paper one(Ordinary) was piss in comparison to paper two which was still very manageable overall.

mateo

OL Paper 2 was easier than OL Paper 1

colm-ccfc84

Voted p1.

genericgoon

Also ppl, we dont need to care anymore. MATHS IS FINISHED ,NO MORE LC MATHS YAY! (unless you failed and have to repeat or are doing a maths heavy subject in uni, although u probably like maths if your doing a course like that) One more exam to go

Haven't a Clue

Yeah, I found ordinary paper two handier than paper one. Not as though paper 1 was a bitch of a paper like, but I thought everything that might've been awkward for paper 2 didn't come up. And I didn't depend on linear programming.

Nehpets

4 for me