I only have the specimen exam to go by but I think that I won't go too far wrong if I assume that the six part two questions will be based on the three blocks of each stream.
My plan is rather reliant on there being a counting problem in the geometry part. If there is, fine. If there isn't here's my plan B.
I think that I'm fine with the part two groups stream questions, maybe, I'll tackle these first, it worked for the topology exam. 30 marks; about an hour. No, I'm going to bump that up to an hour and a quarter. In the topology exam I'd prepared for questions coming at me in a certain way, which didn't happen. Things took longer than I'd thought that they would, I need to add in thinking time into my calculations.
Then it's all minds on deck, I'll have to garner all the groups marks that I can. I reckon that there are 30 on offer in part one. Say another hour and a quarter; I'll try to be non-sloppy, to be exact maybe?
Then it's just get what I can from the rest of the paper.
I should get over 40 with the possibility of a 55.
If there is a colouring problem? Then I need to squash the times down. This will work because I'm going to have more marks to play with, so I can drop more for individual questions.
I grade three should be manageable methinks. We'll see.
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You're really getting into this revision planning Nellie, and also other planning - a Masters hey! I wish you all the joy in the world, and good luck in the exam. Is it on Wednesday? As you say, enjoy!! Maths was made for you, or is it the other way around. Not sure - even more brain-dead after my exam today!
Take care, Sue
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Does only having the specimen paper mean that you haven't been over any other past papers? I've got 2006, 8 and 10, and they're all pretty much the same. First long geometry question is a counting thing - cycle index, pattern inventory that sort of thing. The other 2 geometry questions are about wallpaper/lattices - I haven't really looked at them myself, no intention of doing them. The 3 groups questions are all the same - first one some proof about normal groups, the next about Abelian decomposition (you'll get a number, work out the prime decomposition, and then write down permutations of the primes - then answer a couple of questions about subgroups or something) and the last is a Sylow question - you'll get a number which'll probably be of the form a2b where a is a small prime and b is a bigger one. There'll only be one Sylow-b group, and a couple of possibilities for the Sylow-a groups. Usual questions about normality, Abelian-ness etc.
Grade 3 pass? Come on, aim higher. You've a full day to go yet.
Ian
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@Sue
Cheers, hope your's went well.
@Ian
I never get any past papers. I'm pretty confident with the groups stuff, but if I don't get the colouring problem...but we will won't we?
You'll get a one and I'll have a shot at the two.
Good luck mate.
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nellie