Oh yh, last year's one was definitely much easier than this one. I've completely forgotten all 4U knowledge so won't be able to make an accurate judgment, but with this year's exam, it looks like it starts to get difficult from Question 15, whereas with last year's one, only 16b was difficult from memory.
ext1 doesnt have financial maths
Possible, Ext 2 had a 3U question which legit had no correlation to the 4U course, they just made it look like it had correlation by chucking in IBP.
but they did tell us the formula for some reason which makes me think they may provide more info if they do ask something exclusive to 2u
Could it have potentially been a 'Harder 3U' topic question? I might be wrong, but I believe that still is assessible.
I doubt it. Last year had a whole question on combs.
All questions have to map to a section in the syllabus (see marking criteria document which shows this). It cannot map to a topic that doesn’t exist in the syllabus. In this example, it is mapped back to the dotpoint which says “apply these techniques of integration to practical and theoretical situations”.
I reckon 3u will be hard as well. The 2u exam was hard from what I've heard. 4u was hard in that it was just different. So if I were to hedge my bets I would say 3u will be equally as difficult. Looks like NESA got the feedback from last years 4u exam and took it personally to destroy our year lol.
Very unlikely but not impossible. They would have to somehow synthesise it with a topic that is exclusively in the Ext1 syllabus (with a focus on the Ext1 topic though).
annuities with DE or combinatorics imagine.
I don't think they'll ask financial mathematics since it actually is part of the overlap between standard and advanced maths
imagine asking networks in extension haha (ik its impossible im messing)
you're telling me i spent the past two months studying essays on Euclid’s contributions to the field of mathematics for nothing?
nah dw therell be words and letters as well. the questions arent written in binary after all