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Question 1: 1 mark only for each part. The answer must be correct.
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Question 2:
a. Answers are incorrect
b. Makes this part very difficult!
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Question 3:
Answer is incomplete. This would score 0 for both parts.
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Question 4:
Some candidates do not read the question correctly. An answer of 2 or
10 would be fairly common. 10 or 1 would often be given as an answer
in b.
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Question 5:
a. The route to getting the answer is clear
b. Again, a good answer, although many candidates would be unsure
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Question 6: A good answer. Candidate knows what to do. Others may
rely on the formula 180(n – 2) for the sum of the internal angles.
Confident candidates would know the answer without doing any working.
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Question 1: This question has many opportunities for premature
approximation.
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Question 1:

Part a is fine.
Part b is incomplete
– some marks will
be generated, but
not all of them.
Warning!
Students should avoid
using rounded
answers from
previous questions in
further equations.
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Question 1: This is a “show” question and extra care must be taken.

a. This is a complete answer. Just writing 3 × 1 000 000 would not

score the mark.
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b. Again, a complete answer. Just writing 8 × 200 000 would not
score the mark, but the addition of 3 000 000 ÷ 15 = 200 000
would suffice.
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c. Complete method again. Answer written with extra figures and
then rounded.
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d. Calculations must be complete.
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Question 1
a. Factorisation is usually done well.
b. Relating the graph to the results of part a is not usually done so well.
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Question 2
a. Candidates need to show where their equation comes from. Then
they need to solve it.
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Question 2
b. This answer shows how the value of the median was found. Many
candidates will just find the middle of the top row from part a and give
an answer of 2.5.