7 Maths GCSE Questions

Yay, once again they are putting in the 'here are some free marks to get you into the swing of things' questions from the foundation papers (which allow for a maximum grade of a C) into the news and then screaming about GCSEs getting easier
 
McGray said:
6 out of 7.

Got the voltage question wrong lol.
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Is this the trick? There's no voltage question in there...

I did it earlier and got 7 out of 7 but I'm not sure they're all questions of the appropriate standard. However that could be me imagining that things were tougher when I sat my standard grades... :o
 
Got grade A in single and further A-level maths, so no probs getting 7/7 here. No excuse for boasting though. You're either a maths kid or an English kid, unless you're the teacher's pet that got straight A's in everything. I'm just an ordinary mortal who did well in maths and failed English.
 
desires said:
7. I have a maths and stats degree to be fair though. I'll admit to needing a calculator for the trig question, unless there is some sort of gcse trick I'm not sure how you're supposed to do cos72 in your head, also nearly forgot to put my calculator into degrees instead of radians :p I also used a calculator for question 3, no way I could be bothered to do that in my head :p
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7.

You can't calculate it in your head, but it's multiple choice and the number's gonna have to be significantly smaller than the distance travelled given the bearing.
 
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That's not GCSE maths surely. Before opening it, I was expecting to get around 1 or 2 out of 7. Figured there'd be methods / theories that I hadn't used since school that I'd need to use. The type of thing you'd be rusty.
 
semi-pro waster said:
Is this the trick? There's no voltage question in there...

I did it earlier and got 7 out of 7 but I'm not sure they're all questions of the appropriate standard. However that could be me imagining that things were tougher when I sat my standard grades... :o
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I think it's random.

I suck at maths so I wont post my answer :p Probably like 5, I got a D in GCSE.
 
Seeing that i had done further maths at A level, and my degree pushed my maths even further I figured I'd try doing this one in my head. If it wasnt multiple choice i'd have had a hard time doing the bearings question because I cant do non standard angles of trig in my head but other than that it was plain sailing and I got 7/7 *smug*
 
httk said:
7.

You can't calculate it in your head, but it's multiple choice and the number's gonna have to be significantly smaller than the distance travelled given the bearing.
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You're quite right! Now i've looked at the question again I think the question should really point out it's not to scale. It didn't even click in my head how much of an angle 72 is. Anything more than 60 degrees and it's going to be less than half which, with the options the BBC give, leaves only one valid answer :p
 
Hyburnate said:
I think it's random.

I suck at maths so I wont post my answer :p Probably like 5, I got a D in GCSE.
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I got the same questions when I did it earlier as when I did it just now which I guess is possible but it would be a bit of a coincidence if taking it on two separate occasions on different computers gave rise to the same questions. I don't think the BBC has been fancy enough to opt for randomised questions but I could be wrong on that.
 
desires said:
You're quite right! Now i've looked at the question again I think the question should really point out it's not to scale. It didn't even click in my head how much of an angle 72 is. Anything more than 60 degrees and it's going to be less than half which, with the options the BBC give, leaves only one valid answer :p
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Yes, the picture itself is very misleading, had to do a double-take.
 
Reaper 392 said:
Seeing that i had done further maths at A level, and my degree pushed my maths even further I figured I'd try doing this one in my head. If it wasnt multiple choice i'd have had a hard time doing the bearings question because I cant do non standard angles of trig in my head but other than that it was plain sailing and I got 7/7 *smug*
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Pretty much this.
 
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