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This is a pretty random post. Today was the 2nd paper for the A-maths test and the test was pretty ok till i got to question 5. It was a trigo question rather easy i thought after all in secondary school we are only expected to know two identities. OK so here is what was written on the piece of paper. (1/cosec x) + (1/(cosec x +1))= 2tan x sec x. ok so i did what i thought was a easy question.

I thought it would be rather tricky based on the 3 mark weighting it had how ever i was in for a surprize. After trying the question for 30min and still not getting the answer i tried to substitue values for x to test if the question was correct. Then i thought that my calculator must have had some virus for it showed the question was wrong.

Ok so i finally skipped the question after spending a full 30min on it. (the test is only 2 hours so i effectively wasted 30 min on a three mark question). Ok so i was damn annoyed with myself for not being able to solve a rather easy question in one of my favourite topics. Next, the question was a combination and permutation once again i was stuck(this time it was my fault). I misinterpreted the question and thought it was more difficult than it really was.

Ok, after seeing that i didnt know how to solve it, i skipped it and went on to the next question. Then, i carried on doing the paper.

So here I was wasted 30min on an unsolvable question and then had no idea that the stupid question was wrong. Ok, maybe a typo or somthing i thought and the proceeded to solve the obvious question (1/(cosec x -1))+(1/cosec x +1) = 2tan x sec x. Thats when i guess Mr Chye shoudnt have spoken, he said this :"I wrote it into the computer, the printer printed it wrongly" ARGH now i have a stupid machiene to blame for not having enough time all for just one stupid 3 mark question which wasnt even correct. ARGH BYE BYE FULL MARKS FOR A-MATHS.. SAD. CRY..