Recent content by Puttah

I was in roughly your position too. In the beginning of year 11 I got 60% in our first ext 1 exam. Now, don't get me wrong, I do have natural talent and wasn't the hardest worker there is, but this mark (however low it sounds) was pretty much the best mark there was, by quite a large margin too...

Oh then I suppose "and then with all that induction mumbo jumbo, that thing up there is true" wouldn't suffice?

Really? Must've been really minor. This exam was pretty sweet, but then again, i <3 math

Hell yeah! HI5! I'd never be able to stop at just 10% in a test that determines the rest of my life, so, an achievement? Fuck yes.

He was talking about the 5 questions in that probability one. The 5 questions and 4 multiple choice solutions to each question is what confused him. Anyway, moving on...

Yeah exactly what I was thinking in the exam. And I let some guy make me think I'm a dumb shit! Well Terry, now look at the position we're in :P q3thefish sure that's fine, but unnecessarily extra work. It's useful in integrating, but not in derivatives.

Also 4a iii) It should be 1-(1/4)^5 Why did I even look at the answer? I look at the solutions then I look at myself and think... you retard... edit: wait, wtf, 4a iii) was right? oh crap... *looks at self again*... you retard...

lol this happens when every angle used in class is a "nice" number such as pi/6 (which btw, if you look at the actually number which is about 0.524, you won't be thinking it's so nice anymore :P) I was quite happy to work with that arctan(3/4) answer, just because I knew half the state would...

Sure, people love clean streets, but they take it as a given each and every day and don't appreciate the cleaners behind the scenes. In short - no one wants to be the garbo.

$300 on pens and books for maths study. Math will be my major in due time, so it counts :P

LOL +1 English exam- before: 10 after: 4 That was my 1 and only hurdle. I nearly died stressing over those english exams...

i is in a+ib form. It's just that a=0 and b=1. Yeah it should be y^2

Just a few mistakes I noticed at a quick glance: Q2d) the circle has radius 2, not 1 Q3a iii) I'm pretty sure the x-intercepts are at x=0,2,-2 But really nice stuff :) I especially like how easy you made Q7 ii) seem. Damn that one was impossible in my eyes hehe

I did that substitution at first too, but you end up with (u^2-1)^(-3/2) which seems pretty damn hard to integrate on its own... The proper sub is x=tanu

I counted up 14 expected lost marks and don't expect to have made many if any silly mistakes, so I should get in the low 100's. It's just so frustrating that when I start typing down some of the Qs I didnt get in the exam, I figure them out there an then... Bleh... Q6.c.iv) wtf the idea was...