Sunday, April 07, 2013

Prelims and progress

I haven't posted on here in so long! Here are my prelim scores:

Spanish - 83%
English - 85%
Chemistry - 90%
Physics - 92%
Maths - 99%

I am very happy with those... although obviously I wish I could have got 100% on maths (it was a stupid mistake as well) and it would have been nice to get 2 marks more on Spanish for a clean sweep of A band 1s!

Back to maths, which this blog is meant to be about! In the prelim there was a question about the square of something being three, and you had to set up an equation to solve it. I forgot that every number has two square roots and lost a mark. At first, I was annoyed, but now, I am far too busy doing Advanced Higher maths and revising for my other exams to care!

In Advanced maths, I have completed one chapter about Pascal's triangle and binomials, which was abstract but very interesting, and now I am on the differentiation chapter (I skipped partial fractions as they looked a little too tough!). It is incredibly difficult, but I know it will get easier as time goes by.