Gcse Maths, How Did You Do?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23779549
Pretty easy I got 7 once I'd rememberd the Trig mnemonic!

[atalanta]

Well, considering I did mine when dinosaurs walked the earth, I remember vividly. Brilliant at geometry, hopeless at algebra. Just got the pass I needed by the skin of my teeth.

[Gromit]

Two thirds of my grades were As. And the over half a combination of Bs and Cs.

[jim360]

4 out of 3 people can't do fractions, let alone maths.

[youngmafbog]

I'm guessing one of iyr C's was typing Gromit !

[youngmafbog]

Mine was an F

[AlwaysConfused]

tut tut tut, I only got 2 out of 7. But I suppose 45 percent isn't that bad really!?! I'm off to stand in the naughty corner (at an angle of around 568 degrees) and hand my head in shame

[Baldric]

6/7 could do better.

I studied Maritime History, got 7 C's.

[AlwaysConfused]

I took a mock GCSE exam for maths on the BBC site last week (22 questions, I think) and scored 76 percent. Still pants, I know, but I was quite proud of myself

[LazyGun]

6/7 - unlike 3T I could not remember the trig mnemonic :)

[ChillDoubt]

Despite getting A-Levels results of A,B,B,A, it seems no employer would take a chance on me.

[LazyGun]

I C what you did there Chill :)

[WyeDyed]

7/7 I did use a calculator for the trig question as I could not find my four figure log tables.

[jake-the-peg]

Did a lot of these when my kids were doing their GCSEs 4-5 years ago

The contest on past papers was they had to get 75% and I had to get 100%

Even if you're good at maths getting 100% requires quite a lot of care - you can't afford any slip ups.

We didn't play that game at A level!

[WyeDyed]

groan @ChillDoubt :)

[Ellipsis]

Well done/commiserations to all who got their exam results today.

Maths was always my strong suit so this was an easy 7 - without a calculator too :)

(Hint for WyeDyed on doing the "How far north" question without a calculator: 72 degrees is greater than 60 degrees, so cos(72) is less than a half - only one of the answers was less than half the hypotenuse, so it had to be that one. It would have been trickier without a calculator if the possible answers were closer together, e.g. 1.04, 1.05, 1.06).

[jim360]

Yes indeed, jtp, so much care is needed to make no mistakes. Rather like computer programming, a single figure out of position, or a sign error, or decimal points, etc., all of thees can carry over for so long and never be noticed until too late, and then you have to go all back again and trace it. Horrible. In A-Levels I managed to get A's in all subjects but missed out on 100% on most/ all papers because of those sorts of silly errors.

[woofgang]

I passed at 4/7 but couldn't be bothered to get up and get pen and paper, for all worked out on head, i think that's okay, I am another one who did my GCE's when dinosaurs walked the land

[pixie373]

I can't even find the quiz. So doesn't say much for me. I got A in Maths GCSE plus extension paper, but I'm sure we didn't do Trigonometry until A Level?

[Bazile]

A colleague's daughter got 6A's plus 6 A*

[New Judge]

What amazed me was that these were apparently GCSE questions.

I did more difficult "sums" when I took my eleven-plus. For example, add 17.5% to one number and calculate the difference between the answer and another number! Is 0.25% equal to a quarter !!

I got all seven correct and did them all in my head bar the one which needed to find the Cosine of 72 degrees. If this is stuff that students of 16 years old, following eleven years of education, are tested on then I'm not surprised that the nation's bosses believe that many youngsters are ill-equipped for the workplace.