Question A1.

This was not done well, despite the fact that students
were told to expect definition questions in the exam.

In fact students should expect definition-style questions in many

mathematics courses, so it is essential to prepare for them.

Question A2 went well

Question A3 went well, although a number of students lost marks by

failing to explain what methods they were using.

Question A4. This was the hardest A question, despite the fact that
it essentially came off the Exercise sheets. The biggest problems
were in failing to apply induction properly or in failing to use
LHopitals rule.

Question A5. This was mostly done well. However, a number of people
claimed (in parts (a) or (c)) that, if a_n tends to zero then \sum
a_n converges. This is not what the n-th term test says!

A number of people did not actually integrate when using the

integral test in (i). In part (ii) a number of people tried the
ratio test; which does not work here.

A6 went well

Question B7: The proofs (i),(iiia), (iiic) were, in general, not

answered well even though parts (i) and (iiia) were off the Exercise
sheets.

Question B8: This was mostly answered well, although many people
lost marks in part (a)
because they failed to explain how they were using their inductive
hypothesis in the proof that a_n<3. Many people also lost marks
because they wrote down consequences of the statement ``a_n<3
rather than equivalent statements.

Question B9 (i) As in question A1, many people did not define the
the terms correctly.

In Part (ii), finding the Radius of Convergence was generally done

well.

Testing the endpoints in Part (ii) (i.e. finding the Interval of

Convergence) was done less accurately. Here, a number of people
found the Comparison Test difficult to apply at x=1/6.

People found Part (iii) harder, perhaps because they forgot that
that the limit of n^{1/n} is 1, or because they did not realise
that (n+1)(^{1/(n+1)} is the same series, up to a shift.