Search over 10,000 free study notes

Getting enough quotes memorised for the exam always seems like a huge task, but it's helpful to view quote-learning as similar to learning a language (but easier!): little and often is essentially the way...

Lots of students find planning daunting, or think it's unnecessaryt. In fact, it's the most important part of the essay process. Once you've nailed the steps, you've unlocked the key to controlled, though...

My advice is always past papers! There are only so many questions that the examiner can ask, and a lot of the time the questions have already turned up in previous papers. I would also just try to stay as...

Since there is an x^2 term, we know that there are two brackets that are of the form (x-) (x-), but we need to fill in the blanks! What are the two numbers where you can add them up to make 3, an...

f(-1) = (-1)^3 - (-1)*7 - 6 = -1 + 7 - 6 = 0

Hence f(x) = (x+1)(x^2 + ax - 6)

Expand this out

f(x) = x^3 + ax^2 - 6x + x^2 + ax - 6 

      = x^3 + (a+1)x^2 + (a-6)x -6

B...