u/Aware-Engineering-87 — reddlx

uh I made another post regarding this on this subreddit but I couldn’t make an edit with a picture so here it is but basically in one of the p2 MJ V3 questions, there was a circle theorem question that made me doubt my existence, I tried to recreate it as best as I could (obviously this wasn’t the entire diagram but I just kept the important parts in) as im not sure if questions are allowed to be posted yet but as you can see the question wanted to find the x angle and you had to use the both sides of a quadrilateral add up to 180 rule to find it.

the problem was I didn’t know the entire angle on the right was 86 because of the line separating the top and bottom, making it look like the angle on the right bottom was a blank one (to be found) so I ended up not being able to solve it 💀 after the exam I just felt so stupid

sat for the MJ 0580 mathematics paper 2 v3 a few days ago and I’ve come to reflect on it.

feeling quite horrible because everyone else said the paper was really easy after the exam and it honesty was.

looking back, every question was definitely solvable but my mindset during the exam was quite defeatist… I made a few careless on a few questions in the middle and made it overtly complicated to solve, so I skipped them and when I came back later, I was lowkey too stressed and anxious to think about them with a clear head and I know mental maths is not my strong suit and everything else just culminated into making me feel stressed me the hell out and I ended up finishing the paper at a performance that is much worse than my usual.

I think I lost probably less than 15 marks but definitely more than 10 ( 10 < x < 15 ) and now im even wondering if the A* is achievable 😭 and quite literally everyone said that the paper was easy so im definitely expecting the boundaries to be quite high

so far im planning on losing less than 5 marks for p4 which would put me at around a 180/200 in the worst case scenario but ugh I don’t like scraping the bottom of the barrel and it just feels like such an insecure grade

not to be whiny or anything but it does really suck when you clearly have the capabilities to perform in the paper but you just get in your head and you end up at a threshold that is below your expectations.

anyways im sorry I just needed a space to vent my frustrations out and im not looking for pity as I’ll definitely be working hard for the p4 to redeem myself 🙏

edit: there was this one circle theorem question that really caused my spiral, I’ll would attach a drawing that I made of it (as im not sure questions are allowed to be posted yet) but images arent even allowed in edits

basically, it was cyclic quadrilateral, and they gave the angle for one full opposite angle on one side, and half of the angle (separated by a line) on the other and you had to use the opposite angles in a quadrilateral add up to 180 rule to find the other missing half of the opposite angle
but in the diagram, because there was a line drawn through the supposed FULL angle they gave, it made it seem like two different angles as the side which didn’t have the angle number was blank so I assumed it was. meaning I couldn’t solve the question because I didn’t have the angles I needed 😭 spent so long on the question and crossed out all the different theoreoms so it ate up all my time and my sanity

I made another post on this subreddit with the diagram if you want to see it