For all of us who must endure GCSEs.

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ice_illusion

Foetus In Fetu

Lord Jagged

Right now I am doing a peice of maths coursework.
An investigation on hidden faces in rows of cubes and cuboids.

You find when you get to AS-level maths that most of the things you were made to investigate can easily be proven in about three minutes with calculus or similar (whether a square will always have a larger area than a rectangle with the same perimeter, for example).

My maths exams were okay, not too hard but I dropped more marks than I wanted to. I always knew I was going to resit it, I just needed this confidence boost to know I hadn't completely pissed my education away in my non-attendance.

I got a sin and a cos wave muddled up when we had to draw one. It was only one mark though. And I forgot to order the data set when I was getting median, quartiles etc. But I realised and changed it. Its always the easy one you get wrong.

I have no chance of getting any right, our exam is so hard, 50% is an A  

[Broken Keys]

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I got a sin and a cos wave muddled up when we had to draw one. It was only one mark though. And I forgot to order the data set when I was getting median, quartiles etc. But I realised and changed it. Its always the easy one you get wrong.

That was the first test I got 10/10 in! I was only 11 and before, well, let's just say I wasn't doing so great in the maths department.

By the way, what do you call someone who has a phobia of clouds? Like, what would that phobia be called?  

[Shadow of an Illusion]

Pure Revenge

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I got a sin and a cos wave muddled up when we had to draw one. It was only one mark though. And I forgot to order the data set when I was getting median, quartiles etc. But I realised and changed it. Its always the easy one you get wrong.

That was the first test I got 10/10 in! I was only 11 and before, well, let's just say I wasn't doing so great in the maths department.

By the way, what do you call someone who has a phobia of clouds? Like, what would that phobia be called?

Someone answered that somewhere. I think it could have been in the insults thread.


Replying to Owen: My maths exam is done by a certain percentage of people who sit the exam get an A so the pass mark depends on how hard the exam is.

BTW. In the non-calculator paper there was a question:
If tan45 is 1 then what is tan135?
Most people put 3 (well it makes sense) but I put -1. If you do it with a calculator you get -1 but Im definately in the minority. Its just been bugging me.  

[Foetus In Fetu]

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ice_illusion

Foetus In Fetu

My maths exams were okay, not too hard but I dropped more marks than I wanted to. I always knew I was going to resit it, I just needed this confidence boost to know I hadn't completely pissed my education away in my non-attendance.

I got a sin and a cos wave muddled up when we had to draw one. It was only one mark though. And I forgot to order the data set when I was getting median, quartiles etc. But I realised and changed it. Its always the easy one you get wrong.

I have no chance of getting any right, our exam is so hard, 50% is an A

Oh, come on. The GCSE Higher paper isn't quite that hard. It's a lot harder than the Intermediate paper but I don't think it deserves a "so hard". It isn't hard to get a B or a C (20%!). (You are doing your GCSEs, right?)

ice_illusion

Replying to Owen: My maths exam is done by a certain percentage of people who sit the exam get an A so the pass mark depends on how hard the exam is.

Yeah, ditto. Oh, that means I might not have to resit it after all. I was thinking in terms of permenant boundaries, all the same I don't think I will get the grade I want.

ice_illusion

If tan45 is 30 then what is tan135?
Most people put 3 (well it makes sense) but I put -1. If you do it with a calculator you get -1 but Im definately in the minority. Its just been bugging me.

Sketch the graph of y = tanx and see what you get. I'll have a go when I find a piece of a paper and my graphical calculator.

EDIT: I didn't bother sketching it, but the graph on my calculator is giving me the impression that it's -1, and that's what it says when I key it in.  

[A Lost Iguana]

Um, tan 45 is 1. And tan 135 = tan (180 - 45) = - tan 45 = -1

If you were told that A tan 45 is 30, then A tan 135 is -30.  

[Shadow of an Illusion]

A Lost Iguana

Um, tan 45 is 1. And tan 135 = tan (180 - 45) = - tan 45 = -1

If you were told that A tan 45 is 30, then A tan 135 is -30.

Oh thanks. I put the wrong number in. I will just go edit it. Thanks again.  

[and_solo_said]

Well....I revised the wrong poems, but that was easy. No questions that you could mention poetic techniques in though  

[Broken Keys]

You like poetry then Owen?  

[Nebelstern]

Pure Revenge

You like poetry then Owen?

stressed  

[Nebelstern]

AAAAAHHHHH!!
Help me! I have RE tomorrow and I know nothing about anything to do with religious views of Muslims and Christians!!

*Cries* I just HATE religion and I abhor having to LEARN about it. So demeaning... crying  

[Shadow of an Illusion]

Good luck Simon. Its on the same day as the Scottish RMPS exams. Odd.

I never had to take any exams in RE. Actually we spent most of last years RE classes doing enterprise. We got into groups and made something (calender, jewelery, CD, cookbook, magazine etc) promoting multiculturism. There was supposed to be a design show but one RE teacher went round the bend and the other broke his leg (drunk Im sure).  

[and_solo_said]

DAMN RE

DAMN DAMN DAMN!!!!  

[Shadow of an Illusion]

Its not all bad. One of our substitute teachers does something yogaish and was teaching us relaxation techniques. There was one that gets you pretty high. Hehe. Just did it. mrgreen  

[Nebelstern]

Hah! Take that religion! No more RS ever!
It was not nearly as bad as I had perceived. Religion into media section, which many people didn't have time for or understand I thought was my strongest part.

It is AMAZING how much Father Ted helps... rolleyes  

[She Wrote It Hallelujah]

I'm sitting my GCSE's right now, they are seriously annoying, i'm on study leave which is kl but the exams are so stress full. I'm not revising at all atm. I will porb start next week