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Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 11:49 am
I am currently looking through all the maths past questions since 2001 till date to identify a pattern and predict likely questions for Saturday. Smart or obsessive?
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seriousmum wrote:I am currently looking through all the maths past questions since 2001 till date to identify a pattern and predict likely questions for Saturday. Smart or obsessive?
I'm just about to start looking-I have a preschooler who is not helping matters! I agree re the charts. I also wonder if they will do a lot of the front page questions (the 'basic' simple ones!) with missing numbers again to make them less straight forward as they did that last year?seriousmum wrote:Definitely pie charts and bar charts as they were missed out last year. We could possibly get the area of a parallelogram as it's been a few years (2010). Return of the classic carpet and tiles I say
Train times and working out the time of the fastest train journeys, pattern sequences.....
I feel the paper may be similar to the 2011 one.
What are your thoughts Mañana?
They have vowed to keep the format the same so I think we can expect to see a similar layout.Manana wrote:I'm just about to start looking-I have a preschooler who is not helping matters! I agree re the charts. I also wonder if they will do a lot of the front page questions (the 'basic' simple ones!) with missing numbers again to make them less straight forward as they did that last year?seriousmum wrote:Definitely pie charts and bar charts as they were missed out last year. We could possibly get the area of a parallelogram as it's been a few years (2010). Return of the classic carpet and tiles I say
Train times and working out the time of the fastest train journeys, pattern sequences.....
I feel the paper may be similar to the 2011 one.
What are your thoughts Mañana?
Oh dear, please don't say that!!bravado wrote:It's a game I never play - I'm not a gambler by nature, although I love to spot patterns in maths when doing it.
We're all different and trying to second-guess the people/person who sets the paper can help to calm nerves - make you feel more "prepared". I admire you guys who can do it, I truly do. I always work along the lines of, well what if they're expecting the candidates and their DP's to be trying to predict/spot a pattern - and decide to be totally random, to throw you off the trail? Arggghhhhh - I can tie myself in knots at the best of times when it comes to exams, so for me, I don't do it as it makes me more frantic and less focused.
You never know, CSSE might have a new broom - and the questions might be a clean sweep, with things that have never been done
Sorry guys - when I said "CSSE might have a new broom - and the questions might be a clean sweep" - perhaps I should have explained my statement a bit further - didn't mean to confuse anyone into thinking that CSSE set the paper. What I meant, was that the CSSE may have a new broom, ie a new exam-setter Now - your next challenge is to name the literary device usedMinesatea wrote:As far as I was aware the CSSE don't actually write the Maths and English papers themselves. This is done by a Maths and English teacher from one of the consortium schools (? if there is some kind of rota). So I guess the teachers may look at what was covered last year but may just decide to do his/her own thing.
Since we don't know which school has written this years papers or when they last had the job of writing them I would think it unlikely to find a pattern. (The teachers at the school may have changed in that time anyway).
Good luck to everyone's DC's on Saturday.