Solutions for Mathematics 4016

last SG · 2008-10-27T00:20:02+00:00

lol ok i seebut how they bring the extra papers out? dun they need to be thrown away before leaving the examination hall? for my exam the chief examiner want...

Mikethm SG

Here is an unpublished article from my website for you to laugh at... sibei heng I thought better of publishing it on the off chance that it finally come out... which it did hahaha

Once again, I see this type of logarithm questions asked in school examinations...

log₃x-log₃27=log_x9

Which make me so glad that I always touch on the approach to such questions despite it never having occured before in the past 30 years in the O levels.

Seriously, this type of questions stand a 0.1% chance of coming out so I always wonder why it is almost sure to come out in school examinations.

One may argue it is good for thinking but if you want thinking... think up something innovative please.

Almost every year, I am impressed by the way the O level throw up something new which teachers and tutors will not be able to predict and thus drill their students for. Which is why I never try to predict the unique questions and don't spend thing drilling my students on 101 type of unlikely questions. For unique and/or tough questions... it is better to work on the reasoning ability of the students and just hope that the question will be one that they can reason their way through.

It make me very very glad that there has never been a single year that the O level have threw up more than 2 such questions as invariably I am bound to have one or two students who will get a B3 under the best of situations and 2 of such questions may throw them into the C region if they panick.

eagle SG

1.5mths tuition is very risky one. I got 1mth tuition cases which can jump from F9 to A1 one but... these cases the problem is usually with exam techniques as opposed to understanding problem and bad habits which are hard to unlearn. I pray for you that your that student is only exam techniques jialat and that he listen to your strategy instead of insisting on his own style.

I don't ever mention those cases on my website because 99% of the credit is theirs and not mine. Lest people who dunno their work at all expect miracles to done at the last min.

Maybe you can start a A level papers download section in your website for A level so that I can send visitors from my website to yours. No reciprocal link required. :)

not exam techniques... :( But I will include that as well in tutoring
But what I will always advise such students is to do a whole lot of questions... Do a lot a lot a lot...

Then ask me those that they cannot do... In a way, they drill themselves, and work hard themselves. They will feel more satisfaction. I'm merely a facilitator, someone who help speed up their improvements... I'm very glad to say that my student has done her TYS twice (almost) within that short span of time on top of the extra work from school. I really do hope her hard work pays off.

Not sure if I can release the A level papers... And they come without solutions as well...
Wouldn't be much help to private candidates, and also wouldn't be much help to sch students as well since they will be able to buy such papers together with solutions from their schools cheaply.

Mikethm SG

not exam techniques... :( But I will include that as well in tutoring
But what I will always advise such students is to do a whole lot of questions... Do a lot a lot a lot...

hohoho... I peeked at one of my students' blog and she was complaining that I gave her a grand total of 170 questions to revise for her O levels. I was like wtf... that's less than 10 questions per topic for me to probe your weaknesses and it is your O level. And that was the entire workload for Aug+Sept. No need do any papers while she was completing that.

And another one, same list of questions... I go her house everytime never do anything... end up I have to sit there watching her do. And double the lessons from once a week to twice just to go there watch her do on the spot... wasting money until I will be paiseh if she don't get a distinction.

And that farking list is only for those who were not ready in my opinion. Those ready can do whatever they want.

And the TYS nowadays is so bullshit that I had to scan an old one (for Sec 4 to print out) so that they don't have to repeat questions.

eagle SG

And that farking list is only for those who were not ready in my opinion. Those ready can do whatever they want.

And the TYS nowadays is so bullshit that I had to scan an old one (for Sec 4 to print out) so that they don't have to repeat questions.

ya lor! Repeating questions can be boring

a reason why examworld, I used questions from 1999 (my year) and before that are still in syllabus :D

weewee SG

Mike, you have a good website with a nice domain name. Mind telling us how much do you pay to maintain the website.

Mikethm SG

Eh don't tell Singnet but I host it on my 10Mbps Singnet ADSL line with upload of 1Mbps.

Equipment

Shuttle K45 with Intel E2160/250GB HDD/Ubuntu OS/Apache/Joomla! CMS

However tickering with linux is a hobby so I don't expect you to want to go my route.

So I'll tell you what I will do if I am not hosting my own server.

Domain name registration is cheap USD6.99 per year each.

Shared hosting is usually very bad with slow performance of dynamic websites but dedicated hosting is too expensive. I recently tried to switch my website to a Singapore host but testing a trial website show slow loading and lotta problems. Right now the only Singapore hosting I would trust and the cost is not too hefty is Orynet Networks at www.on.com.sg at S$10/month.

As for the look of the website and maintaining it, you would want to look at Joomla!, Drupal or Moodles. These are free opensource Content Management Software which create how your website look like and adding pages. You administrate your website by going to say http://www.weewee.com/administrator to log into your backend where you can change the look of your website by adding templates( prebuilt website formats), add toys like countdowns by adding plugins, edit and publish new pages. All these are easily done with a few clicks. Your webhost will usually offer to preinstall Joomla! or Drupal for free for you should you need it.

However, Joomla and Drupal are general CMS and it can be difficult to input maths symbols ( I use jpg or pdf files instead). Moodles on the other hand is designed for educational website and is more suitable for mathematical websites... but it does not look as slick.

You can probably break even or even make a tiny profit if you use Google AdSense to put advertising on your website. My income from Ads is 6USD this month. That would pay for your hosting and a bowl of laksa. :P

Adding forums and other features in Joomla! is very easy. Just click click click.

Adding articles is just like posting a reply in this forum.

The time consuming problem would be search engine optimisation.

Should you want to play around with Joomla and webhosting and domain names. I have a few unused domain names (to take advantage of hosting discounts) on a hosting account for you to play with.

mathsforum.info olevel.info sgtuition.info sgmathsforum.com

These are hosted on a netfirm hosting plan which cost USD10/yr for the 1st year but the performance is rubbish... but good as a testing platform.

For a proper self maintained website hosted on a decent Singapore webhost, it would cost around S$150 per year with a 20GB cap on traffic per month.

To decide if you are comfortable with maintaining your own website using a CMS, just email me at mikethm at yahoo dot com for the password to manage http://www.sgmathsforum.com/.

eagle SG

or to reduce the hassle of setting up a CMS (or paying $10 for webhosting a month), can use blogspot... just cannot set up forums like what joomla

you can even get a domain name (of cuz pay one lah) and point it to blogspot for free hosting, and with your own domain name

Mikethm SG

eagle you don't want to use blogspot really. wee is using freewebs at the moment, he has a forum and lotta articles. and buyers of his TYS who type in his url and yet his alexa ranking on Singapore traffic

www.freewebs.com/weew/index.htm 39,458

www.exampaper.com.sg 4160

www.$ingaporeolevelmaths.com 6207

examworld.blogspot.com 50,223

is far behind Miss Loi's website (4160). Lose to Miss Loi nothing to complain about coz she is good at marketing and in my opinion has a real product... but there is a website called singapore o level maths dot com on which I should have no comments. which rank just behind Ms Loi just coz of a nice domain name. The domain name matters.

Actually Joomla! is good for maths too... provided that you know either Tex which {tex}$\frac{{ - b \pm \sqrt {b^2 - 4ac} }}{{2a}}${/tex} or know MathType which can translate into Tex... meaning you can type equations into your webpages easily like this.

kya SG

oh my.then if my graph exceeds the range, will the markers deduct away all my 3 marks or just deduct away one mark? cause my points are all correct, but i think i drew past the range.

eagle SG

Actually examworld has been around for only a month plus... so the ranking still looks alright to me so far. :D

I'm planning to get a domain name when I hv more content, but i can still point it to blogspot... Means www.examworld.com, but the web host is still at blogspot... That was what I meant :D

Mikethm SG

examworld... you sure not registered yet? Ok I go squat and sell to you at S$1000. :P

Kya, the most 1 marks deduct... and maybe even nothing.

eagle SG

examworld... you sure not registered yet? Ok I go squat and sell to you at S$1000. :P

Kya, the most 1 marks deduct... and maybe even nothing.

Go squat lor... I don't mind...

Squat finish all the domains (.com, .info, .org, .com.sg, etc), then suddenly you realise I decide to change name or register as exam-world...

actually examworld.com is taken... in may 03, expires may 09, but doesn't matter to me

:D

Lazy to learn Joomla at the moment... Or you want to help me set up :D

See how first ba... Me still got full-time work to think about on top of tuition

Might consider changing to joomla or wordpress and get a hosting this december....
Either that or get a domain name, but continue to use blogspot as the CMS

FYI, I just checked that alexa ranking for weews is 36,041 while it is now 36,018 for examworld :D

Will think about it :D

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