YassinMoutaouakil Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 Students being left "traumatised" by the Higher Maths exam. Fucking grow a pair. https://www.change.org/p/scottish-qualification-authority-sqa-explain-why-they-set-the-higher-maths-exam-to-an-impossible-level? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 Students being left "traumatised" by the Higher Maths exam. Fucking grow a pair. https://www.change.org/p/scottish-qualification-authority-sqa-explain-why-they-set-the-higher-maths-exam-to-an-impossible-level? In fairness, it was fucking insane. The SQA have screwed them over big time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 I doubt very much that the maths exam was "impossible" as the petition suggests. Difficult, but not impossible. Unless they were asked to solve the Riemann Hypothesis. It wasn't impossible, but it was of a far higher standard than the SQA had intimated, both by their (lack of) course materials and specimen papers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banana Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 Students being left "traumatised" by the Higher Maths exam. Future uni feminists imo. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Man Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 ImageUploadedByPie & Bovril1432234247.793030.jpg ImageUploadedByPie & Bovril1432234257.727184.jpg ImageUploadedByPie & Bovril1432234267.730425.jpg ImageUploadedByPie & Bovril1432234277.143940.jpg I hope all her pets get nicked to teach her a lesson for constantly writing 'iv' instead of 'I've'. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Swarley Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 How do I do that.Isn't there an option to either "ignore all requests from that friend" or "ignore all requests from that game"? Pretty sure there used to be? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Man Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 Isn't there an option to either "ignore all requests from that friend" or "ignore all requests from that game"? Pretty sure there used to be? Never mind that, can you share the dognapping van in Australia please. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Estragon Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 Hang on. Everybody stop what they're doing, there's a 45 year old man gone missing. Last seen Chicago Illinois, be on the look out everyone. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sugna Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 It wasn't impossible, but it was of a far higher standard than the SQA had intimated, both by their (lack of) course materials and specimen papers. Sounds like you're comparing with the expected CfE standard, rather than with historical Higher Maths papers. There have always been some quite hard A-B questions, but the C questions really can't be that tough. Are you able to post one or two of the toughest questions? I'd quite like to see if they're significantly harder than traditional Higher Maths A-B questions. Suspect that they won't be, but I'm prepared to be persuaded if you are able to post the questions. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 Never mind that, can you share the dognapping van in Australia please.We don't have dogs or vans or naps in Australia so it wouldn't make any sense. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 (edited) Sounds like you're comparing with the expected CfE standard, rather than with historical Higher Maths papers. There have always been some quite hard A-B questions, but the C questions really can't be that tough. Are you able to post one or two of the toughest questions? I'd quite like to see if they're significantly harder than traditional Higher Maths A-B questions. Suspect that they won't be, but I'm prepared to be persuaded if you are able to post the questions.That's kind of the whole point, though. We should be comparing with the expected CFE standard - it's a CFE Higher. There are just too many daft wee things in it that a C candidate will not pick up on. There's a derivative question that's dT/dt, too many folk will integrate it with respect to x, not t. There's a compound angle question involving tan2x, which is easy if you realise that tan2x = sin2x/cos2x, but loads of folk won't. Here are some of the harder questions: That's an insane question to give a 16-year old. Thing is - what's the first part even asking? Time taken to do what? Swim across? Eat the zebra? Start talking about upstreams and you've got folk thinking it's a vector question. From having a look at the paper, this is supposed to be a Level C question, worth 4 marks. There's far too much work involved for a Level C question there. A discriminant question with a = 2, b = 2-p and c = p-2. Horrible. Integral of dT/dt. I would wager at least half of the candidates will integrate with respect to x. This picture is being widely shared on social media. Ironically, it's not one of the harder questions - it's pretty straightforward and even gives you the recurrence relation. However, look at the first question - calculate the height of the toad. It's not "calculate the height the toad has reached". It's "calculate the height of the toad". Unbelievable - we have candidates who'd written "not enough information given about toads, but I think they are about 2-3 inches". You've got to laugh. It's been a horrific exam. We have kids who have went from 85%+ in their prelims, to acing every single past paper, and the specimen material and specimen paper are nothing like the standard required. Our council are putting a focus group together to respond to it. Edited May 22, 2015 by Gaz 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cardinal Richelieu Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 Despite acing A-level Maths and doing it for 2 years at uni, I wouldn't have a baldy notion how to even begin answering those questions. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marsh Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 That's kind of the whole point, though. We should be comparing with the expected CFE standard - it's a CFE Higher. There are just too many daft wee things in it that a C candidate will not pick up on. There's a derivative question that's dT/dt, too many folk will integrate it with respect to x, not t. There's a compound angle question involving tan2x, which is easy if you realise that tan2x = sin2x/cos2x, but loads of folk won't. Here are some of the harder questions: zebra.png That's an insane question to give a 16-year old. Thing is - what's the first part even asking? Time taken to do what? Swim across? Eat the zebra? Start talking about upstreams and you've got folk thinking it's a vector question. IMG_1326.JPG From having a look at the paper, this is supposed to be a Level C question, worth 4 marks. There's far too much work involved for a Level C question there. IMG_1329.JPG A discriminant question with a = 2, b = 2-p and c = p-2. Horrible. IMG_1328.JPG Integral of dT/dt. I would wager at least half of the candidates will integrate with respect to x. frog.png 13 years on and the fear of looking at an exam paper and knowing I don't have a clue what I'm supposed to be doing comes flooding back. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 (edited) 13 years on and the fear of looking at an exam paper and knowing I don't have a clue what I'm supposed to be doing comes flooding back.There are seven of us in our department. IIRC four of us, including myself, have Honours in maths. Two have ordinary degrees, one has a masters in actuarial maths. At lunchtime on Tuesday the seven of us spent the entire time debating how to answer that crocodile question. There's something seriously wrong if seven qualified maths teachers can't agree in 40 minutes how to do a question that a 16-year-old kid is supposed to do in 10. EDIT: I am an idiot, it was Wednesday. Edited May 23, 2015 by Gaz 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 zebra.png That's an insane question to give a 16-year old. Thing is - what's the first part even asking? Time taken to do what? Swim across? Eat the zebra? Start talking about upstreams and you've got folk thinking it's a vector question. Pfft. I wouldn't be where I am today without knowing how long it takes for a crocodile to reach a zebra if it travels through water 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Swarley Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 Is this Higher Maths? My memory might be sketchy, it is 25 years since I sat it, but I can't remember questions being that hard! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimplyTON Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 Clearly its fishing Friday on my timeline "Whats good to eat at ........."<oh so you are going out please wait till 10 people beg for more info before spilling them details> "Cant find anything"<Why would you be looking? Oh thats right you are going on holiday do go into excruciating detail please once 5+ people like this vague status>"mundane sign.jpg"<Waiting on you going into great details of your gym habits once u get 8 or more comments of where is that?>"car image.jpg titled upgraded"<Its a suzuki swift (i think) with no discernible difference from the last 20 pics posted at the weekend - Do tell us what you have done>"catty inspirational quote" <Clearly directed at someone but not tagged so you do the comment dance while everyone showers you with sympathy>About 2 dozen of these types of post in my timeline this morning aloneI dont know whats going on with FB but all my settings seems to have changed in the past week or so.Im now seeing every single like from all my friends - toggling the settings doesn't seem to help any. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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