   STEP
  Hi, this applies to you british mathematicians out there. I am going to be taking a STEP paper soon, and am wondering if anybody out there has already done so, mainly because I want to hear from others what they thought about it. If you have taken one, how did it go? where did it get you?cheers 
  Are you applying to Cambridge?  That''s the only reason I can think of why you''d want to take one.  I didn''t take one, but by all accounts, the paper is solid.  Not solid as in "just a little bit hard", but solid as in "lucky to answer a question" solid. ;  heh, thanks for the reply. I may as well try to get into Cambridge even though it will probably never happen (you never know). My teacher thinks they''re fun, so we''ve been forced to sit them. The past papers weren''t so bad.... you only get marked on the 3 questions you answer best. It seems to mostly be an extension of A level topics, but requires more logical thinking, and no calculators allowed. oh well... papers 2 and 3, here I come. ;  I never actually took a whole paper, but my maths teacher used to set questions from past STEP papers to people she thought were coasting through the main syllabus. From what I remember, though this was about three years ago, the questions were a bit more complex than what we were being taught in class but were do-able, they just needed to be thought through more. 