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How was maths paper 3 for oct/nov 2013 session ?

Will they lower the grade treshold for an A like last year's paper 32?


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i literally dance on the exam hall.it was damn damn tough.30 marks answered and the rest of the answers are created by me
 
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I swear i felt like crying! No bragging but im a pretty high scorer! been getting A's throught! the As paper was ok; but this Paper was just BLOODY HARD! Nothing like the pastpapers! ive practiced around 15-20 papers before the exam! this was Hard! why did they have to make it so hard? leaving us depressed! i have 12 more papers left :( Im from Seychelles! we do variant 2. And we do all ; AS AND A2 together! but i reallly hope threshold is 45 or less for an A!
 
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o my gosh.. i wasn't able to do several questions because of the limited time! Blame panic attack! it caused me to not to think clearly.. maybe the hardest question is number 6... or 10 .. it involves geometry.. i have no idea what to do :S
 
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now that 24h have passed , we can discuss. what did the paper asked us to show in num 6 cuz in exam i almost solved it ( i only had to rearrange it but i ran out of time)?

was it cos2x = (sin2x - pi)/4x ?

ofc replace x with theta
 
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Can someone please tell me what their equation of the plane was?
Also what was the binomial expansion? What was the coefficient of x^2?
 
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I remember all the questions.

1. Gradient of the curve (3)
2. Logarithms + Modulus (5)
3. Integration by parts (4)
4. Parametric Equations (6)
5. Trigonometric Identities + Integration (7)
6. Iterative formula (8)
7. Partial fractions + Binomial Theorem (10)
8. Complex Numbers (10)
9. Vectors (11)
10. Differential Equations (11)

That totals up to 75 marks....but I'm not very sure about the marks distribution. But this is what I can kind of remember. Please post your answers question by question so we can compare :)
 
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For integration I got 4ln(something) -4
For iterative I got 0.93
For complex I got 1+2i and -2-4i
for binomial I got something +17/72 x^2
and lastly for differential I got 49.4
 
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Omg! My Binomial is the same :) So is my integration and iterative. I think it was either 17/72 x^2 or 7/72x^2 can't remember :p But anyways....I didn't get complex nos :( I only did a part of differential. :( Did you get the equation of the plane? I don't think you have to worry, you've answered most things!
 
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For integration I got 4ln(something) -4
For iterative I got 0.93
For complex I got 1+2i and -2-4i
for binomial I got something +17/72 x^2
and lastly for differential I got 49.4

I got .95 for iteration. I didn't know if we could use the binomial expansion rule for x^2 and I didn't even attempt! :(
 
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I got .95 for iteration. I didn't know if we could use the binomial expansion rule for x^2 and I didn't even attempt! :(
got .95 for iteration too :) Heyy, don't worry about it! I'm sure you'd have made up for it with your other answers :) Did you get the equation of the plane?
 
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It was the most difficult paper I've done and I did all the papers...I did all papers like 5 times and read from the book did excercises BUT still couldn't manage.... I hope they lower the threshold...:/
 
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Did people get the equation of the plane as something like 5x+4y+3z=15 ????? Please answer :)
 
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