2nd time around question

[UndergradDad]

For those who didnt get into a Phd program right from a ba, then got a masters and got accepted the 2nd time around, I have a few questions.

Question 1: Did you change your sample paper or just improve on your ba sample?

Question 2: Did you change your area of interest while in the masters program

and

Question 3: Did you apply to the same programs who turned you down the first go round and then got in the 2nd round, or did you choose new programs on the 2nd attempt?

[Mischief]

Interested in this question (more generally than the specific questions above) as someone (presuming to be) shutout in my first year of PhD apps, though I am applying from the second year of my MA.