Maths Exam

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 1:20 pm

Got my GCSE maths exam tom.

i know it doesnt sound much but once a week ive had to go back to my old school for 2 hours a week at night to learn everything.

my Uni course demands I get a B then I have a place. it roughly equates to me getting 80% on both papers, calculator and non-calculator.

I have achived this alot but never under true test condtions, its worrying as University means so much to me...

I need to stay calm stress kills my ablity to think logically.

Post by **Kaylee** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 1:38 pm

You'll do fine! I always perform quite well in exams almost entirely I think because I'm very calm and don't panic.

Just remember the old rules-

o Time yourself to give you 10 mins to read the paper at the start and 10 mins to check through it at the end

o Anything you can't do, ignore and it do the next one. Long as you number them clearly you dont have to attempt the questions in order AFAIK.

o When you've done all the ones you can do, then worry about the other ones.

o Try to divide your time up sensibly so you don't spend 30 mins trying to solve one question.

o Take things slow and always show all your working out.

o Read the questions carefully so you don't miss something obvious (or something less obvious, but I wouldn't expect that on a GCSE paper) and lose marks for a silly mistake.

Good luck sweets! You'll do good ^_^

Post by **Best First** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 1:58 pm

good luck.

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 2:09 pm

good luck mate!

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 2:22 pm

cheers.

Thanks Karl, I need to stay calm, read the questions, as I have lost marks easily before for not doing this, and like you said not to waste to much time on certain questions.
the idea of 80% and I must get a B keeps going through my head, its not that I dont think I can do it, I just think ill pannic and screw it all up - happens alot.

My friend who comes from a maths wizard family and is currently doing A level maths, and is damm good at it (thanks for my coursework James

) tried one of the higher papers, I dont need to take the higher I only need a B. even he found the higher GCSE paper hard to do.
He says its more because at GCSE lvl you sort of learn everything, where at A level you learn more about how the maths actually works or somthing.

His older brother is proff in maths... and he works as a, can never recall the name, hes one of these guys who works out insurance. for everything, so he comes up with funny equations to say how dangerous it is for you to jump out of a plane on a bike whilst making a cup of tea for charity etc... earns about £100k a year plus, cant be that bad...
His dad is a maths teacher,
His brother, my best mate, is drunk...

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 2:54 pm

I wish ya luck too Imps.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 3:02 pm

Impactor returns 2.0 wrote:He says its more because at GCSE lvl you sort of learn everything, where at A level you learn more about how the maths actually works or somthing.

Yeah. GCSE is more a case of parroting things. A Level is more about understanding it.

and he works as a, can never recall the name, hes one of these guys who works out insurance. for everything

Underwriter?

Good luck, Mr Imps.

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 3:29 pm

Good luck Impy. Don't do what I did in GCSE maths and forget that there might be questions on the back of the paper until about 3 minutes from the end

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 3:36 pm

nasty - well ive done all i can to revise i got a test tommorow and another next wednesday. got time off today to do revison which is good, its non calculator first so im doing lots long difision and stuff... fractions etc

Post by **snarl** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 3:42 pm

I got a B and I'm as thick as dog****, so you'll ace it mah nephew!

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 3:42 pm

Long division is the work of the Devil. I wasn't even taught it until A-Level, nor were half the rest of the class. The teacher was shocked... not our bloody fault, though.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 3:47 pm

with a calculator i can work anything out im just slow at manually doing it.

silly old ppl

Jetfire · Post by **Jetfire** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 6:05 pm

Good luck.

Just relax and don't think to much into it. Easier said than done I know, but practice and practice and you'll find at GCSE there are only so many versions of the same question they can ask and it will all seem familar.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 6:06 pm

There's an Asimov short story about a future where people have become so dependent on calculators and computers, that they've totally forgotten how to do mental arithmetic. Then this one guy starts doing it, everyone cheers him as a Nobel Prize-winner, and they start sending up manned missiles, believing that they've got the edge over their enemies' computer-guided ones. Can't remember how it ends, but it's something stupid like the guy kills himself over the horror he's unleashed upon the world, or something.

Anyway, good luck tomorrow, Mark!

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 6:08 pm

ah rebis story just made me feel better...

I keep making dumb mistakes, give me a nice quadratic and im fine, ask me what a line bisecting a circle is, (well its a chord) and i forget....