[cezlaa]

Well I wont know whether I have passed or not for another 3 weeks so I don't want to say too much, but I didn't think it was too bad. It wasn't very different from the thousands of past questions I have done. There were 3 calculations that were asking you to do pretty much the same thing (so if you got one wrong then you are likely to get them all wrong which is mean!) and I couldn't get the exact answers for which scared me a bit, but after talking to others I think I did put the correct answers because the answers I got were close enough luckily. I think I know what I did wrong now but it's a bit late now!

I would agree that making sure you are pretty much perfect at calculations is important. I had been getting 100% for calculations in most of the past papers I did but when I got into the real exam I still had some problems. You can afford to get 6 out of 20 wrong, so you don't need to be 100% perfect, but you do need to be really sure of them just in case there are 3 the same that you struggle on like me!

Apart from that I would say you need to do lots of past questions, which can help identify areas you are weak in and help you familiarise yourself with the types of questions. Also, you need to tag your resources for the open book exam really well, and make sure you know them inside out so that you know exactly where to look and can turn to the right page in sceonds.

Good luck for your daughter for September. Hopefully I wont be sitting it with her!