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How did you find the paper?
Tight on time?
Tight on time?
It was tight as expected but I just about got in finished right as they announced to stop. I could probably have done with an extra 30 seconds or so to finish whatever I was trying to write at the end but otherwise I think it was a fairly neat fit.
Did anyone think that the first solution in the examiners report given to question 10, (i) was counterintuitive?
It asked to give a transition diagram for the various states mentioned in the question. (A rather ridiculous confusing scenario involving aliens and zombies!)
Anyway the solution given gave 4 states: alive, dead from illness, dead from sacrifice and zombie.
It seems totally out of keeping with the course notes that a state of being sick can be bypassed and that 2 separate states of being dead can be used. Surely the state of being sick merits a whole state of its own?!
It may well be correct technically but it really annoys me that they ask such confusing questions. I actually had both diagrams down in the exam and spent a good few minutes trying to work out which was the correct one. I settled on the second version which includes a sick state. This seemed to me to be far more logical. I know i got full credit for this but its galling that i spent so much time on what was a totally idiotic question which was designed to confuse people. How do they consider this to be genuinely testing peoples ability?
sorry abt ur near miss mate. hopefully u won't do a arsenal again! and cross the finishing line this time. But do expect tough questions on markov jump this time around.