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SharkeyBoy

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Year 8 Half-Yearlies, how many cm in a metre, it was multiple choice, i put 10cm :L
Got 79/80 as a result... SO FRUSTRATED WHEN I GOT MY PAPER BACK!
 

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Year 8 Half-Yearlies, how many cm in a metre, it was multiple choice, i put 10cm :L
Got 79/80 as a result... SO FRUSTRATED WHEN I GOT MY PAPER BACK!
Know dat feel... I lost out on 100 cos apparently (pi/4)^2=pi/4
And it was on the very last part of the last question :(
 

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Biggest derp moment. Sy and other people who did CSSA trial.

You know the circle geometry. They were 2 circles overlapping each other with cylic quads within them. one of the questions were to prove another set of points were cyclic. so I got lazy and didn't draw the diagram, so I worked off the booklet. so I drew a circle around the points to help me visualise, coz there were lines everywhere. I drew it the first time, but I had one of the wrong points, tried a second time and not using a rule, u can now imagine the shit on the diagram. and at that point I couldn't even do the question cause I didn't know what the original diagram was.

Used to always do this...then i discovered using a pencil on my circle geo diagrams is quite helpful :')
 

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A=2*pi*r*h
=2*pi*(4-x)*y
=2*pi*(4-x)

forgot to times my height in. Bye bye volumes question (MX2)
 

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in da 3U

lost a mark in MC
BY INPUTING THE WRONG NUMBER INTO CALCULATOR
 

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I got 3 MC wrong...How come I can get out that binomial but I can't get questions 2,9 and 10 right?
 

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