Maths GCSE ?!?!?!?

[izzieamy]

Okay well this afternoon i took the Maths non calculator Higher paper GCSE!

It was distubingly easy! Not what i expected at all, except getting a tad lost on a few of the questions it was pips to what everyone said it would be like !

Did anyone else take this exam today? If so, what did you think about it ?

:)

[eash]

http://www.theanswerb...e/Question903623.html
Looks like Mollykins had a maths exam today too...

[Count-A-Strong]

People
inchatterbank taking exams! I think you need the Q & P section.

On second thought tho........

[dothawkes31]

what do you mean non calculator, is that a rule? We didn't have calculators when I was at school anyway, probably wouldn;t have helped me if we had lol

[izzieamy]

Wel there are two maths papers a calculator and a non calculator paper !

Sorry count seem to get more responses in chatterbank !

[wiggal]

Hey dot,

When I took mine, 7 years ago there were 2 papers. One you had to use a calculator on and one where no calculator is allowed.

Calculator or not, I still got D's in both!

[stewey]

Wot, Dot; they wouldn't allow you to use your abacus?:)

[dothawkes31]

No they wouldn't allow me abacus but what is the point of doing an exam with a calculator? That's cheating!!! I think my kids had t have a calculator for school, a scientific one, but I don't think they were allowed to take it into exams

[Prudie]

Well I've got a degree in it and pocket calculators were not invented at the time! We had to use a book of tables just like we did at school - anyone remember those for logs, trig etc?

[izzieamy]

Dot thats why we take two exams one with and without a calcultor to show we know how to use a scientific calculator and the other to show our own knowledge of maths !
The calculator is obviously the harder paper because you have the calculator to help aid you :)

[stewey]

I still have my slide-rule with a genoine leather case complete with a belt-loop on it!

[dothawkes31]

oh don't start with logorythams and cosines I;ll have a pink fit!!!

[dothawkes31]

did you do logorythams and cosines today izzue?? I was actually good at them

[ChuckFickens]

I don't think anyone has ever done logorythams!

[craft1948]

After getting 17% in my maths 'O' level prelims I was glad I was good at English...

[dothawkes31]

lol I've never had t spell it before!!!! We never ever wrote the word just did the working out lol

[dothawkes31]

do you remember those tatty little books they gave us with endless columns of numbers??? they weren't a very good read were they?

[Prudie]

I never actually learnt to use a slide rule Stewey, that'll be a dying skill I should think!

[izzieamy]

Yes cosines :)

I adore english. Im continuing english at a level, both literature and language ! Can't wait. :)