green5 Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 I was trying to solve some problems in year 2000 paper 1, and couldn't do it so I checked the markscheme; the graph that students needs to draw was too hard to do it without a calculator. Was GDC allowed for paper 1 from the older syllabus ? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dax Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 Yeah, don't do papers from before 2008, the Syllabus used to be quite different. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maks123456 Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 The syllabus is quite different now than before, but that doesn't mean that you shouldn't do any past papers from before 2008. There are a lot of useful, difficult and interesting questions you may encounter in the years before 2008.However, you will need to use GDC to solve them as the syllabus then permitted it. 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
flinquinnster Posted March 19, 2014 Report Share Posted March 19, 2014 GDC was allowed in all papers (i.e. both paper 1 and paper 2) prior to 2006. I think that doing questions prior to 2008 is useful - I found that I had enough time to do papers before 2008 as well as pretty much every paper afterwards. The only thing that changes significantly is the options section - which for some options is pretty different, but for others is still similar.I'll actually post below some notes that I made on syllabus changes that might help when doing past papers. It was a document I made when doing Maths HL (procrastinating, technically). It's correct to the best of my knowledge, but I'm not entirely sure it's free of errors. It's also probably missing lots of information! Pre-2006General- All papers GDCPaper 1 - Paper 1 short-response style (Section A) - Paper 1 length is 2 hours; but varying amount of marks assigned to the paper in totalPaper 2 - Paper 2 is long-response style (Section B)- Paper 2 is 3 hours long (varying mark total available?) - Paper 2 includes Options questions (Paper 3) - Title (and content?) of Options are different Pre-2008 (2006-2007)General- All papers GDCPaper 1 - Paper 1 is still short-response style (Section A)- Paper 1 length is 2 hours long and worth 120 marksPaper 2- Paper 2 is still long-response style (Section B)- Paper 2 now 2 hours long and worth 120 marks - Options placed into a separate paperPaper 3 - Options paper introduced, separated from Paper 2- Paper 3 is hour long and worth 60 marks - 4 options (same as 2008-2013 syllabus) Pre-2014 (2008-2013)General- Paper 1 no GDC; Paper 2 and 3 GDC- Change in Paper 1 and Paper 2 formats to include even mix of short- and long-response questions (Section A and Section B respectively) Paper 1- Section A: short-response worth 60 marks; Section B: long-response worth 60 marks- Still 120 marks and 2 hours long Paper 2- Section A: short-response worth 60 marks; Section B: long-response worth 60 marks- Still 120 marks and 2 hours long Paper 3- Unchanged format from 2006 New syllabus: post-2014 (2014-)General (this link provides much more detail)- Matrices removed from syllabus- 'Series and Differential Equations' Option renamed 'Calculus' (more on calculus, less on series) - Core reduced by 8 hours (190 -> 182 hours)- Option increased by 8 hours (40 -> 48 hours)- 1 mathematical exploration task instead of 2 portfolio tasks - Assessment of modelling and inquiry approaches now present in external exam papers Papers 1, 2, 3- Unchanged format from current syllabus Timezones - Varying use of timezones across papers; sometimes applied and sometimes not- Generally (?) only applied for May session, not November - Mostly only for Paper 1 and Paper 2 although sometimes time zone variants present for Paper 3 2 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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