Louise Boylan

I call them compensation points in some ways.

But, you know, it's very individual for students.

I've had students who get a H1 in every exam and they really don't study that much.

Maths is a bit like that.

It's a bit like being good at art or being good at music.

Some people just have it.

If you do have to work hard at it, it does take up a lot of time.

It definitely does.

Yeah.

And plus, there's not a whole lot of learning in it.

It is all practice and knowing what to do, not learning and reciting facts.

Right.

So on paper one, we have a lot of algebra.

We've got calculus, complex numbers, patterns, sequences, series, something called induction.

Paper two is a lot more visual as geometry, trigonometry, probabilities, statistics.

It's really important, though, that while that's kind of the agreed topics or the standard topics.

topics can drift so it's important when students come out of their paper one that they don't go that's it I never have to do calculus again they can walk into paper two and there'll be a little bit of calculus there which is not too bad because you've studied it all for the Friday but it's worse if it happens the other way like a year or two ago there was a probability question on paper one and that really threw students because they weren't expecting probability until after the weekend

And it is split across a weekend for the maths.

But in terms of timing, the exam paper is in two halves.

It's not got multiple sections like others.