I’ve done every question from every year back to 1996, but today marks the easiest paper in the 15 years of the course. Reading through the paper at the start, I honestly had to check the front to see if the OL paper had been given to me, but no. The 14% that did take the paper could only have been happy, bar the integration Q, they all looked fairly palatable.
Q1, sequences&series bit probably threw people, but the part B? How that deserves 20 marks is beyond me.
Q2, C(i), again, unbelievably simple, part (ii) may have thrown a few, but very easy to get marks in.
Q3, B(ii) was odd, but just an Argand diagram, straight-forward once you figure that odd. Odd in part C too, with the roots coming in decimal form, never seen it before, but it worked out all the same.
Q4, Easy a and b, induction and algebra for part C, with a sum of numbers squared. Sneaky sneaky people though, the “r=11″ bit on the bottom would have been easily missed by people.
q5, induction, logs and binomial, c(ii) was about the only challenge on the paper.
Q6 and 7, easiest differentiation questions yet, nothing odd bar Q6B(ii) where the “curve” is actually a line.
Didn’t touch integration, horrible looking part c involving logs and trig functions, but other than that, paper 1 was a breeze.
Did everyone else find it that easy? Talking to the rest of the lads after, the feeling was mutual.
Paper 2 has to be impossible, otherwise there’s going to be a ridiculous amount of As given out. It really can’t be as easy as paper 1.
Week 1 over, 3 down, 7 to go.
Hey, I thought that too…
When i first looked at that paper, i couldn’t believe the Differentiation Question?? I did Integration- I thought It was brillant except the last which required me thinking a bit more!!
Algebra was grand as well except for that Series Qs in part C,… I didnt what to do since I never likes Series & Sequences
Qs 3, I got a weird answer as well..Shouldn’t have done that Qs, I didnt like it at all. It was either that or Qs5.
Best Maths paper i ever sat actually, HOPEFULLY Paper2 is as easy as this one..
Did you notice how there were no proofs on paper1? How Great would it be if 2/3 proofs came up on Monday.. Oh that would Just make my day and Get me my A1!! XD
Joshi
11 Jun 10 at 8:03 pm
Yarp agree with both of ye! That woz the nicest paper i’ve seen!! Came out beaming!!
Keeva
12 Jun 10 at 5:25 pm
Yeah, thought it was really simple. I didn’t do question 3 though, never liked it! Anyone know what the answer they got for 4c(iii) and 8b. Apart from those I’m fairly sure I got everything right. Hope paper 2 is nice though!
Elaine
12 Jun 10 at 7:25 pm