how hard is it 2 get 40+ in FM??

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When it comes to SACs ranking is quite important, so try to be ranked 1st or 2nd in your school in further maths,

You make it sound so easy ...

"Oh yeah its important to ace everything so you might as well go and do that" LoL

[Odette]

When it comes to SACs ranking is quite important, so try to be ranked 1st or 2nd in your school in further maths,

You make it sound so easy ...

"Oh yeah its important to ace everything so you might as well go and do that" LoL

Lol, that's because it's not that hard...

[nak]

its not that hard thats why the competition is very tough to be ranked 1st or 2nd because some people work their asses off for sacs but if you don't at least look through your notes before sacs, surely there will be stupid mistakes. Further maths is about practising and avoiding stupid mistakes. I got 43 for further and would say i dropped 3 marks in 1st exam and about 4 in the 2nd and was ranked 3/70 in the school for sacs.
It's the silly mistakes that kills you in further, not the difficulty of the subject. You are too careless because it's way too easy.
I did it without a textbook all year as well, only borrowed a textbook from library to take into the exam.

And as modules go, you don't have to do the one the school does but you got to do it in the sacs though. But in the exam i didn't do business maths i chose matrices instead which is all calculator work.

[tuvubro]

I got 48 (raw, went down like .4 or something), dropped 2-3 marks last yr total across both exams.
FM is very very very straight forward, just do prac exams come exam time.

[marbs]

We have 143 people in our year doing further, and apparantly we are making our sacs really hard to make sure it doesnt mark done as much as it did with the easier sacs last year.

We only had 15 A+s
38 A

The average was a C

Will this work?

meaning if you stroll through with As and A+s will it only go down 1 or 2... therefore being more likely to get high 30s or low 40s

[Mao]

erm, not really.

statistical moderation of your SACs will be affected by the exam results. making SACs serves to give a ranking, and the difficulty isnt really important (though the psychological effects can be). a fair SAC should accurately reflect exam performance, and hence should be around the difficulty of the current year exam (but that is no way to tell as teachers dont have access to that information). Making it harder will only mean it probably wont get moderated down, but the converse will yield very similar moderated result, so...
an accurate reflection is more useful, for this purpose, but harder SACs can help you to become "tuned" for the end of year exams.

a current discussion on the statistical moderation process: http://vcenotes.com/forum/index.php/topic,2940.0.html