Maths Paper II (H)

Can anyone post up how they think they did, and how the exam went? I was giving grinds to someone and am curious how the paper went!

Alan G

Bad!!

jacksie

disaster

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It was fairly handy in my opinion... couple of oddities but pretty straightforward.

Question 1... usual circle stuff, a very approachable question. Nice proof in part (b).

Question 2... part (a) seems to have confused a lot of people but vectors are vectors so it's not too bad.

Question 3... a very fair line question, the linear transformation part was especially handy.

Question 5... nice trig. question even for people like me who hate trig., diagram for part (c) was a bit scary looking for fairly straightforward.

Question 6 & 7... lovely questions, the probability was all completely straightforward so was the difference equations. The statistics part (c) was laughably easy once you got your head around it.

Question 8... very easy question altogether. (a) and (c) could be done in less than 5 minutes, the only thing delaying in part (b) was writing out terms but it was only to x^3 so it wasn't so bad.

Anyway, that's how I found it.

nobodythere

I did well beside paper 2, considering that over the weekend i did every paper from 2003 to 1998...

Brendygg

tought it was bad.say ill get a b2 overall

*Angel*

A very good paper, trig questions were very short and straight forward, even the coord geom was shorter than usual, vectors grand, I did question 6 with 5 mins left and it was pretty easy (I don't even like probability), option question 8 was a lot easier than the usual stuff.

The only thing I was stupid enough not to do was read the question (always my downfall) it was only 1(c) I only got the centre of the circle instead of the equation... stupid me, it was only pointed out to me after the exam (still won't loose too many marks), I'm pretty sure that's the only thing I got wrong.

Overall v happy with the 2 maths papers

Beno

happy enough better than paper 1 shame perpendicular proof didnt come up
Tanget to a circle proof came up though

Gileadi

was a very nice paper i think,did 1,2,4,6,7,8 in the end and there was nothing out of the ordinary really other than the a part in vectors which if you did applied maths or physics you should have seen before,if not its still easy enough to work out. pretty happy now thats done


the trig question 4 (c) part was so easy once you had done the previous trig question about the 2 wheels and the chain from some years back

JackKelly

was quite a tough paper, but im very happy with it. Got a few dodgy answers but method was right in almost all. A lot more fair than P1.Didn't get 5b(ii) or 2c(ii). So happy in all.

8C was super simple

Breezer

Lovely paper, much easier than in previous years (complete contrast to paper 1). Took my time, checking as I went and still finished with a good 20 mins to go. Question 4 took a bit of time but was still very manageable. Question 5 was particularly easy, I spent almost as much time re-reading the paper to make sure I hadn't missed something as I spent doing the question.

Don't know about Q6, 7, 9, 10 or 11 becuase I didn't do them but everything else was grand.

defiantshrimp

I found the paper great! It was not too difficult, not too easy and had great choice, a huge relief after paper one.

Q1- Was nice and standard, part C was a bit tricky and I got it wrong but it was my extra questions so no bother.

Q2- I didn’t do but it looked ok, though the reason I didn’t do it is because part A looked weird, drawing a diagram and all.

Q3 Excellent question! A and B were fairly standard and you had to use your head for part C (ii), the proof before it wasn’t bad but it did throw some people in my class cause you had to be familiar with it

Q4 Another really nice question, part C was a bit tough because there were so many figures and it took a while. But it is very similar to one of the past questions about a bike chain

Q5 A great and short question, had to use your head a bit to get out B (ii) but it wasn’t too bad. Part C was very straightforward; they even put in the variable X for you.

Q6 Very nice! Very doable probability, well phrased and a reasonable level of challenge.

Q7 This was the one odd question. I liked it but you really had to know and understand statistics to be able to do part C. It was basically an essay type question! A good idea I think though. It is important to show you know and understand theory and are not just applying learned rules. It is very unusual though and did throw me a bit at the start. But in all ok.

Q 8 I didn’t do but part A and B looked very long

Q9 Perfectly normal further prob. No tricks, very nice.

In all I could scarcely have asked for a better paper, they didn’t mix things up like paper one and it was the right level of difficulty. It was the same layout and difficulty as previous years, the way it should be.

Zukustious

I thought it went really well. Way better than paper one.

nobodythere

good good good:) Beside paper 1 anyway

mrs. hamlet

Totally agree!
Sooo much better than paper 1!
i did q 1 2 3 4 6 8 !
q1 was easy except i didn't know the proof but i made something up!
q2 i couldn't do the a-part :eek: but the rest was fine
q3 a and b very easy, couldn't do c because i hav never been a fan of linear transformations so i was hopin' they wouldn't come up as a c part but ah well!
q4 i hate trig but (surprisingly!) found this q grand! b was easy! I got the wrong answer for c but my method was right!
q6 was fine except i left c halfway thru and never got a chance to go bak and finish it!

q8 was the best! The max/min problem was way easier than other years!

I, by no stretch of da imagination, did brill on the paper, but i made a gud attempt and i'm so happy bcuz i was so worried i was gonna fail after my unbelievably crap paper 1!

Señor Juárez

far easier than I was expecting, to be honest. A few questions I know I didnt get fully out, but I wasnt too far off. the usual.

jacksie

i thought p1 was better

Found it easier than Paper 1, but still did a lot worse than I was hoping for.

Attempted Qs 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.

Q1:Usually a very easy question for me, but for some reason it was my worst question of the paper. Never heard of the proof thing. Did a stupid thing in part (c) too. Barely passed the question!

Q3:Got (a) and (b) right, Tried (c) but I'm not sure if it's right or not.

Q4: Very handy. Hopefuly I got everything right.
Q5: Got everything but (b) (ii). I just couldn't get rid of the sinB. Part (c) was extremely easy.

Q6: Easier of the two probability qurstions, even though both were pretty simple. Saying that, it was the last question I id and I didn't get (b) finished.

Q7: Got everything but (b) (iii), although I realised how to do it on my way home. Part (c) was more like a part (c) you'd see in Ordinary Level.

Q8: I was dreading this question, but it turned out to be the easiet question on the paper. Hopefully I got everything right.



By my estimations I scraped an A2. I say a LOT of people easily got an A1, which is why I walked out of the exam unhappy. I'm was still pleased that there was nothing surprising like Paper 1.

JackKelly

Deleted User wrote:

By my estimations I scraped an A2. I say a LOT of people easily got an A1,

I wouldn't say so. Personally, although i feel i did well, a good few of the numbers didn't work out for me. Adding error's all over the place. So blunders may play a part. It was i nice one, but fairly long and some hardish calculations. Fair.


How many marks out of 300 is the lowest A?

*Angel*

Deleted User wrote:

Q3:Got (a) and (b) right, Tried (c) but I'm not sure if it's right or not.

Yeah I wasn't too sure about this either, however I took two lines y=mx + c and y=mx + k (i.e parallel lines) and put them under the translation and then showed that they were still parallel.

Deleted User wrote:

Q4: Very handy. Hopefuly I got everything right. Did people get the area of the rectangle to be equal to the area of the triangle?

Yeah area of rectangle = area of triangle.

Deleted User wrote:

Q5: Got everything but (b) (ii). I just couldn't get rid of the sinB.

sin2B = 5/3(sinB)

2sinBcosB = 5/3(sinB)

cosB = 5/6, and I found tan B from this.

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Christ man... you're a maths student! You need 510 marks for a bare A2... so an average of 255 per paper.

*Angel*

TimAy wrote:

How many marks out of 300 is the lowest A?

255 would scrape you 85% (A2)

sin2B = 5/3(sinB)

2sinBcosB = 5/3(sinB)

cosB = 5/6, and I found tan B from this.

Yeah. I'm an idiot.

JackKelly

hey!...an EX maths student. and i tired one at that.

JackKelly

*Angel* wrote:

Yeah I wasn't too sure about this either, however I took two lines y=mx + c and y=mx + k (i.e parallel lines) and put them under the translation and then showed that they were still parallel.

yea wierd question. Did the same as you.

jacksie

i ended up getting x'=x does that work

D-Generate

Thought it was tougher than paper 1 hehe. Made about 3 or 4 slips I would say.

Cina

Great paper. so much less of a bastard than Paper One. Only questions I could not do were 1 (c) , 3 (c)(i) , 6(b) .
Trig questions and Further calcuation question were a joke. 50/50 on all of them I think.

StupidLikeAFox

This is something like what i got for the vectors part (a), anyone get anything similar?

*Angel*

That's not like what I got...

sixdraw

exact same as me and a few other lads in my class