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HARDEST MATH PAPER IN THE HISTORY OF IGCSE 0580 MATH 42 DISCUSSION

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I was surprised at paper 42! It was one of the hardest papers I've seen (and I've done tons of past papers) :(
Same :(

Do they normally bring down the grade boundaries/curve if everyone had difficulties with it?
 
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the no scarf,no hat,no gloves one?
we had the probabilitues found before of no hat/scarf
but the gloves was (if i remember exact) 3/10
i just multiplied all :/

i dont remember....but the last probability question was mind screwing :S
 
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Man that paper was sh*t. i studied almost everything and still messed up a bit of the paper. i seriously hope they are merciful with threshold.
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guys u niticed that many made a mistake in finding the major arc length.... u had to first multiply the angle 39*2 and then minus it from 360 some people ddnt do that getting the wrong answer...

i found the arc length with 39 first, and then ans+ans
i got 11.5 something :S
in the same way if we do 78/360 x 2 x pi x 8.5 .. i got 11.5 again
 
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what about the graph people?
the question above the tangent one, in which a new equation was given and we had to find the solution for x
what did yu guys get?
 
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