Jacob Barnett is even more insane. Teaching himself insane maths in a couple of weeks, and now can teach college students.
He also writes up equations of dark matter on his damn window.
Not bad for 13/14
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Jacob Barnett is even more insane. Teaching himself insane maths in a couple of weeks, and now can teach college students.
He also writes up equations of dark matter on his damn window.
Not bad for 13/14I have taken these 2 questions from a Higher GCSE Maths paper from 2010. Admittedly, they are 2 of the easier questions out of the total of 17 questions on the paper. But remember, the pupils taking this paper are not foundation pupils who are aiming for a C grade on their Maths GCSE. These children are aiming for an A*.
1. A box contains milk chocolates and dark chocolates only.
The number of milk chocolates to the number of dark chocolates is in the ratio 2:1.
There are 24 milk chocolates.
Work out the total number of chocolates.
2. Yasmin can buy 5 identical pens for 75p. [There is a drawing on the paper of 5 identical pens.] How much should she pay for 3 of these pens?
Don’t just look at the Maths GCSE papers. Let’s take a French one. There is a drawing of 6 items. There are 8 possible words one can match to the pictures. One picture is of a football and another of a tennis racket. Two of the words are ‘le football’ and ‘le tennis’. These are 2 marks out of a possible 35 on the paper.
I did my gcse's 10 years ago, got 1A*, 8A's and 2B's, and the questions were definately not this easy!!!!
1. A box contains milk chocolates and dark chocolates only.
The number of milk chocolates to the number of dark chocolates is in the ratio 2:1.
There are 24 milk chocolates.
Work out the total number of chocolates.
2. Yasmin can buy 5 identical pens for 75p. [There is a drawing on the paper of 5 identical pens.] How much should she pay for 3 of these pens?
Don’t just look at the Maths GCSE papers. Let’s take a French one. There is a drawing of 6 items. There are 8 possible words one can match to the pictures. One picture is of a football and another of a tennis racket. Two of the words are ‘le football’ and ‘le tennis’. These are 2 marks out of a possible 35 on the paper.
I did my gcse's 10 years ago, got 1A*, 8A's and 2B's, and the questions were definately not this easy!!!!
I'm assuming as it was an E it was a foundation paper, We looked at one just to see the difference and the first question was something like "Write, in digit form, Two thousand and 40" They still have some reasonably challenging questions towards the end but it is a total difficult gradient throughout. She probably didn't need much to get an E.
Didn't surprise me as she is obviously an above average person.
Edit: apparently I took ages to write this, was talking about the six year old
Didn't surprise me as she is obviously an above average person.
Edit: apparently I took ages to write this, was talking about the six year old
Then surely the boundaries should be increasing atm because there are far too many people getting high grades.
Getting C grades is perfectly fine, but to be happy with something below a C... I just don't understand it. Maybe it's just me...
I didn't think an E was a pass
Any grade is a pass.
I have to agree, those questions are absurdly shocking!
There werent any pictures on my GCSEs, it was all questions and answers, and those questions there are like year 6 standard.
(1 = 36, and 2 = 45??? I have no idea how those students would have coped with AS level maths in the year that I did mine).
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Only technically, I don't see anything below a C as a pass.
I didn't think an E was a pass
Yup, it was when I sat my GCSEs back in......err.... '02 I think.
To be fair C @ GCSE doens't say much. In fact, post school, I only put on my CV the subjects I got A* / A / B in - frankly French and DT @ C were worthless to me anyway.
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What? E is only a pass in A Levels, it's a C for a pass in GCSEs.
Well done guys.
Terrible grades for a stuck up little **** such as yourself perhaps but it's all relative.
Terrible grades for a stuck up little **** such as yourself perhaps but it's all relative.
She only passed 2 subjects, thats not being "not a straight A student", thats being someone who doesn't give a ****.
Agree. You can get grades below a C at GCSE, but no one is ever going to want to know that you got them.
Oh we are going to play "Choose some easy questions" these are from the first exam paper I looked at the 2000 higher tier june maths exam. 2nd and 3rd questions being:
3(i) may be a little above the questions you put but the others are very easy.
3(i) may be a little above the questions you put but the others are very easy.