hardest 3U paper (1 Viewer)

[jake2.0]

what paper from the last 20 years or so do you guys think has been the hardest??

 

[100percent]

what paper from the last 20 years or so do you guys think has been the hardest??

i don't like question 7b of 2000 paper, took up too much time to do

 

[Vampire]

I thought last years 3 unit was pretty hard, especially that last binomial...

 

[rama_v]

pfft Binomial is easy once you learn how to do 3 or 4 of those hard ones. The projectile ones are nearly impossible, especially the very last question in 2000 and 1995.

 

[serge]

pfft Binomial is easy once you learn how to do 3 or 4 of those hard ones. The projectile ones are nearly impossible, especially the very last question in 2000 and 1995.

those years were the only hard projectile ones,
usually they're pretty straight forward

 

[billeh]

try doing the 1993 ext 1 paper
i reckon that one's pretty difficult compared to all the others

 

[Vampire]

yeah projectiles can vary greatly in difficulty...

 

[ishq]

The paper that pissed me off was 1997. Projectiles was shit AND it had financial mathematics. What chance, do you reckon, is there that they will put financial in this year?

 

[serge]

The paper that pissed me off was 1997. Projectiles was shit AND it had financial mathematics. What chance, do you reckon, is there that they will put financial in this year?

yeh,

depends on how you think
Ive only seen it twice out of 10 papers...

so either you follow that it WILL be in this year cos its rare and they wanna mix it up

or either it wont be in there cos its rare,

i think if they do use it it'll mess up 4u students that have forgotten all that crap

 

[fine ambiguity]

try doing the 1993 ext 1 paper
i reckon that one's pretty difficult compared to all the others

completely agree

psycho paper

 

[Dumsum]

Yeah I need to go revise some 2u stuff like financial maths... damn 4u lol. And I've actually forgotten the sum of an arithmetic series..

 

[richz]

hardest was prolly 93, then 2000 and 2001 or was it 01 before 00, dunno

 

[Stefano]

Yeah I need to go revise some 2u stuff like financial maths... damn 4u lol. And I've actually forgotten the sum of an arithmetic series..

When you find out what it is, could you remind me too? Thanks.

 

[richz]

there are 2

S= n/2(a+l)
or n/2(2a+(n-1)d))

 

[Stefano]

there are 2

S= n/2(a+l)
or n/2(2a+(n-1)d))

Thanks.

n= # of terms
a = 1st term
l = last term
d = ?

 

[jake2.0]

d=common difference between terms

 

[Stefano]

d=common difference between terms

Thanks.

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[sambo_rambo]

yeh,

depends on how you think
Ive only seen it twice out of 10 papers...

so either you follow that it WILL be in this year cos its rare and they wanna mix it up

or either it wont be in there cos its rare,

i think if they do use it it'll mess up 4u students that have forgotten all that crap

You can probably tell what they might ask by looking at the 2U paper. They did ask a mortgage repayment in 2U so I doubt it will be that, but they might throw in a superannuation. :S I suppose its better than one of those tricky binomials or projectiles