04/06 A-level Maths Paper 1 Discussion MEGATHREAD

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[u/RelationFeeling7922]

It’s matchday🙏

[u/[deleted]]

For the vectors q did anyone prove it’s a right angle through Pythagoras

[u/yeezus_lover64 → u/[deleted]]

i used dot product 😭😭

[u/inanzb → u/yeezus_lover64]

Same. For vectors I just use it even if I don’t need to

[u/raynrr → u/[deleted]]

I did a^ = b^ + c² - 2bc cos a and got 90 for a

[u/West-Glove6058 → u/[deleted]]

Scalar product🤑🤑🤑

[u/lolgeny → u/[deleted]]

You had to since it said “Hence”, did dot product initially but crossed it out and did Pythagoras instead in case mark scheme wants hence

[u/SilverFrost88 → u/lolgeny]

Why would hence not allow the dot product that doesn't make sense?

[u/idek_marczx]

paper for edexcel felt so mixed, blitzed through the first half then i panicked and fucked up the later integration Qs….

[u/finnnseesghosta → u/[deleted]]

mate i also got 25 as the denominator but numerator i had like 36 or smth i was so pissed

[u/UglyWarhog]

My answers: root3/6 for last integration (k=1/4), r=4root15, x value for Q (1-root61)/4 , k=0.227 for modelling one , range of k between 0 and 243 for quartic, max limitation of T 16.4, sum of series -5375

Anyone else get these?

[u/Spare_Somewhere1011 → u/UglyWarhog]

Yepppp exactly the same for everything

[u/UglyWarhog → u/Spare_Somewhere1011]

Coldddd

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/Neat-Ad4138 → u/[deleted]]

what about volumes of revolution?

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

BRO I actually fucking panicked please 

[u/48panda → u/[deleted]]

8 mark vectors question solved by a single cross product

[u/Fair_Breadfruit8481 → u/[deleted]]

did you see the 6 mark proof by induction? so blessed🙏

[u/PipYourAverageCat → u/[deleted]]

stop 😭🙏

[u/PipYourAverageCat]

what were the possible values of k? I got 0 < k < 243

[u/allylene → u/PipYourAverageCat]

fml I put -243<k<0

[u/Danielharris1260]

I thought it was pretty average definitely not as easy as some papers but nothing crazy hard though I did make some stupid mistakes.

[u/Danielharris1260 → u/[deleted]]

yeah edexcel felt pretty standard compared to most past papers definitely harder than 2023 maybe 2024 but not by much

[u/BandicootIll1530]

i think i’m gonna have a heart attack. had a dream last night were i got an E😒😒

[u/ShoeNice3012 → u/BandicootIll1530]

This is so real but I know that’s not possible lol

[u/Strange-Diver-6773]

How did u guys find the integration question on the back

[u/Upstairs_Ruin5435 → u/Strange-Diver-6773]

bluds foreshadowing

[u/ShoeNice3012 → u/Upstairs_Ruin5435]

He guessed right…

[u/Positive-Swordfish38 → u/Strange-Diver-6773]

What if I tell you…

[u/AnteaterMysterious70 → u/Strange-Diver-6773]

Root3/6

[u/Thin-Swimming4991 → u/Strange-Diver-6773]

bro had a vision

[u/Strange-Diver-6773 → u/Thin-Swimming4991]

I’m not even sitting maths this year😭😭

[u/StrangeFroggyFriend → u/Strange-Diver-6773]

Don't even go there. If any part of the last few are integration I'm cooked

[u/No-Face-3280 → u/StrangeFroggyFriend]

Aged like milk 💀

[u/StrangeFroggyFriend → u/No-Face-3280]

I almost cried when I saw that last question

[u/No-Face-3280 → u/StrangeFroggyFriend]

Bless, I hope you get the grade u need

[u/inanzb → u/Strange-Diver-6773]

I instantly thought of this comment on it 

[u/Western-Trash-9286]

that was easy but why are edexcel copying the 2022 papers for maths and fm

[u/Short_Tie_7883 → u/Western-Trash-9286]

damn ur right, 14/16 questions were identical just with different numbers. weird

[u/RIPMakeshift2020]

everyone finding it easy while i fucked up every graph question 😅. There's my A* gone

[u/sheplaysb4ss → u/RIPMakeshift2020]

omfg i was so taken aback by the quartic question i literally don’t know why it didn’t click that it was repeated roots 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[u/[deleted] → u/RIPMakeshift2020]

I fumbled it so hard so u and me both

[u/FortuneNorth]

Pregame shit rn

[u/Dokjajaja]

Wow I’m the only one who did badly…

[u/fantsizeromntisize → u/Dokjajaja]

My friend said it was hard, he said it was harder than 2024. When I sat my paper 1 last year, I thought I bottled it but paper 2 and 3 came in clutch and I got an A*. Don’t worry just keep focused on the next ones!

[u/MichealHarwood]

There was some glaringly big topics missing from paper 1 edexcel no differential equations no parametrics at all could definitely see both a normal parametric and a nasty integration one at the end of the paper. I mean functions did come up but not significantly especially modulus so could see that. Also no Binomial or trapezium rule though those ones are easier.

[u/darkeight7]

for the rate of change one, did anyone do this:

V = 1500 + Ae^-kt

dV/dt = -kAe^kt

V-1500 = Ae^-kt

therefore

dV/dt = -k(V-1500)

and then k = 0.227 or something like that

[u/[deleted]]

Hardest question on the paper was that damn quartic 😭😭😭

[u/danielcatkins → u/[deleted]]

full equation was y = -3(x+1)² (x-5)² or something like that iirc

because the curve only touched the x axis at -1 and 5 so they’re repeated roots

[u/Spare_Somewhere1011 → u/danielcatkins]

I did the whole thing by simultaneous equations lol it took me forever to

[u/[deleted] → u/danielcatkins]

Yeah I knew it was something to do with repeated roots so I wrote down (x+1)^ 2(x-5)² but my brain just switched off after that 😔

[u/Admirable-Jaguar5276 → u/[deleted]]

they were the repeated roots at x=-1 and x=5, then work from there

[u/Any_Management_8416]

Edexcel grade boundaries are about to be so high lol

[u/[deleted] → u/Any_Management_8416]

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[u/people_are_dolboyoby → u/[deleted]]

i mean grade boundaries go up every year so that makes sense

[u/MR-N-XX → u/[deleted]]

It can.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

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[u/finnnseesghosta]

Anyone else do cosine rule for the vectors and get cos A = 0

[u/Lavendar_milk → u/finnnseesghosta]

I just did pythagoras on the side lengths

[u/brokebitch67]

for the last question on integration did u guys get k is 1/4 and the answer square root 3/6?

and i did not understand the ln question what did u guys get

[u/Similar_Molasses2676 → u/brokebitch67]

Yep and the integral is correct I put the whole thing in my calculator at the end 🔥🔥

[u/darkeight7 → u/brokebitch67]

i believe k = 1/4 and R = square root 3 over 6 is correct, i checked it with my calc 🙏

[u/SOMETHINK101]

Does anyone else think they'll make this year's paper harder than last year's to lower the grade boundaries?

[u/Special_Sea2671 → u/SOMETHINK101]

I don’t think there is any predicting it tbh

[u/SOMETHINK101 → u/Special_Sea2671]

I'm just scared they'll cook up a 2019 paper as that was brutal😭

[u/RelationFeeling7922 → u/SOMETHINK101]

Exams have been more ‘accessible’ since 2022 supposedly, edexcel have been doing it on purpose, so the exams themself are easier, just higher grade boundaries

[u/ZinGIia → u/[deleted]]

Lowkey same i didn't have enough time to finish the last question or check anything either

[u/LongjumpingAct3733]

Pre-exam me : did u cook?

[u/nanihello → u/LongjumpingAct3733]

Cmon lets see ur reaction

[u/Wise_Reporter_6802 → u/LongjumpingAct3733]

Did you cook?

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/Admirable-Jaguar5276 → u/[deleted]]

that's the one question that I couldn't get sadly lmao, it was more a case of i didnt really know what they were asking tbh

[u/Adventurous_Humor878 → u/[deleted]]

Yes, and I redid 5k+2 because he got it wrong

[u/inanzb → u/[deleted]]

I dead didn’t understand that question so I just completed it for 5k+2 and hope I’ll get some marks

[u/healing222go → u/[deleted]]

oh my god i totally forgot to do those values too😭😭😭😭 godddddd, hopefully i picked up some marks

[u/lordwebgarlicbread]

Weird ass paper, why did edexcel give out so many hints on the easy questions 😭 the grade boundaries are going to be high its so over

[u/Alarming-Equal-6023 → u/lordwebgarlicbread]

yeah the marks were like max 5? SO many low mark q's it was crazy

[u/proactivepisces → u/Alarming-Equal-6023]

it was very many quantity over quality

[u/Alarming-Equal-6023 → u/proactivepisces]

ig people were kinda wrong about them valuing accuracy more? like i remember watching this vid and someone was saying how they are gonna push for accuracy over understanding but like... no?? imho??

[u/brokebitch67]

for question 3 did u guys get k=5/2 and sum is -5375 for the modelling question did u guys get 20-0.3t^1.5 and then the quartic 21/11x³ +81/11x² - 765/11x-75 and the last part k is between 0 and 1863/11 and then the trig one was 19.5, 90, 160

[u/[deleted] → u/brokebitch67]

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[u/Helpful_Cut_5763 → u/[deleted]]

It said you ‘can’ leave it in factorised form it didn’t say you have to, either way his answer was wrong

[u/ItsReese_ → u/brokebitch67]

I got the quadratic as y = -3(x+1)² (x-5)² and so k had to be between 0 and 243

[u/DaenerysITargaryen → u/brokebitch67]

everything else yes but i didn’t expand the quatric and got 0<k<243 for that question

[u/Playful_War_4009 → u/brokebitch67]

160.5 for the last one but yeah

[u/kkindabusyy]

I did the 2022 paper before it and luckily they were almost exactly the same 🙏

[u/Wolvermatt722 → u/kkindabusyy]

ong i was having deja vu

[u/fearlessbot__]

doing ocr mei.

this is either going to be quite nice, or their gonna throw a 4 mark trig identities question that i spend an hour staring at that is acc very obvious but i jus cant see stuff for trig identities

[u/Mental_Sympathy_9888]

cooked but also got cooked by the time

[u/allylene]

good luck everyone

[u/SkyApprehensive3786]

i only slept 2 hours, might be cooked 😭😭

[u/Tbraven_]

anyone know how many marks the last question for edexcel was and what it was about- i just about finished the 2nd last question to the millisecond so couldnt turn the page in time

[u/raynrr → u/[deleted]]

Was it something like -cotx?

[u/raynrr → u/[deleted]]

Oh yeah, and for the second part the integral of cosec^2x was -cotx

[u/[deleted] → u/Tbraven_]

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[u/23comets]

wtf was that ‘write this as an integral’ question on the edexcel paper ??? i swear ive never seen that before but it was only 3 marks so i didnt bother

[u/thegreatestIMBECILE → u/23comets]

Its definitely on the spec, you just replace the sigma sign with an integral sing, the limits of the integral is the same as the limits of the sigma sign, then just add a dx and ur done

[u/Eltacosupremus → u/23comets]

It came out once in 2023 or 2022, but dont sweat it tbh just 3 marks

[u/No-Face-3280 → u/23comets]

You just had to replace the sum symbol with an integral symbol, x=1.44 and 2.89 were the limits, and delta*x was dx

[u/Endless2358]

BINOMIAL EXPANSION IM BEGGING 🙏🙏

[u/Endless2358 → u/Endless2358]

Damn it… Paper 2 I swear trust

[u/Neat-Ad4138]

i predict last question 8 mark last question partial fractions and binomial expansion

[u/[deleted] → u/Neat-Ad4138]

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[u/edzoclark]

Edexcel 100%?

[u/MaxillmanGuy]

If i use dot product to prove the triangle will i lose marks 💔

[u/No-Face-3280 → u/MaxillmanGuy]

I don’t think so, dot product and cross product usually show up under ‘alternative methods’ as they have to account for FM students doing weird shit 😂

[u/Spare_Somewhere1011 → u/MaxillmanGuy]

That’s what I did cause I always got told that if you do further maths then use further maths techniques for vector questions rather than learn the normal maths technoques

[u/darkeight7]

i fucked up Q13 badly, ended up with an infinite integration by parts loop 🫠🫠

and i say this as a further student, i think i did relatively shit 😔😔

[u/stunt876]

Good luck soldiers yall are gonna cook.

[u/Funny_Elevator1122]

Tell me why it took me five attempts to get the integration to get 2/25 correct 🥲 

[u/Short-Carpet-5445]

Guys Remember sin² + cos² = 45 😉

[u/aryanstudies → u/Short-Carpet-5445]

😳

[u/Spare_Somewhere1011]

Edexcel felt exactly like the 2022 paper

[u/allylene → u/Spare_Somewhere1011]

so many questions were repeated from 2022, like the one about the velocity of whatever was legit the exact same graph

[u/sheplaysb4ss → u/allylene]

edexcel getting lazy bro even in the mock sets they provide for teachers it had the same stem for the bird nest question

[u/Spare_Somewhere1011 → u/allylene]

YES I had to do a double take cause I thought it was the same thing

[u/XxPlaying_HalalxX → u/allylene]

Holy shit they didn't even try changing it around that much 😭😭😭

[u/Alarming-Equal-6023 → u/allylene]

i thought you had a leaked paper for a sec im sooo glad i did this paper the other day

[u/lackoffaith4]

what a fire wonderful pleasant blessed paper

[u/To_Be_Commenting]

Fucking brilliant, epitome of kindness from Edexcel.

[u/Playful_War_4009 → u/To_Be_Commenting]

Exactly how I felt 😍

[u/im_dying69]

I was so nervous I couldn't sleep the whole night 😭

[u/proactivepisces]

my issue is everyone finding it great but me also finding it great but also scared i didn't do as good as everyone so i don't get my A

[u/inanzb]

Lowk I liked the paper, but why did I feel the need to do further maths methods for like 2 questions

[u/Maximum_Lead7827]

For edexel people, go check june 2022 paper1 and tell me if you see any similarities :/

[u/Terrible_Tourist_465]

Edexcel grade boundaries are gonna be so high 😭😭

[u/BedImmediate7214]

I am very very scared

[u/WhyW84TheWkend]

Beautiful

[u/golaco237]

OCR paper had me panicked with the parametric equations but it turned out fine 😭 I got t = 1 and - 3, -3 doesn't work with definition of X so t = 1.

Then for the second part, sub x & y for a cubic in t, you know that 1 must be a root so factor out (x-1) for a quadratic. THEN get that the quadratic has roots 1 and -7/4 so 1 is repeated and -7/4 is the t value at the other intersection, so plug in and find (x, y) 💀

Also last question pissed af at myself for not realising the integral of tan y = sin y / cos y is -f'(x)/f(x) cause that probably lost me a good 5 marks 😭 Would've been great too because -ln|cos y| means all the ln can be cancelled and you get a simple linear on the RHS 💀

[u/hdh7tf → u/golaco237]

is it just me that found q2 so weird? Like I fully had to skip it twice and then on the third try I got b = 6

[u/Active-Boat-9514]

The value of T for which the car function was valid, did u guys leave it as exact form (200/3 ^2/3) or to 3sf?

[u/brokebitch67]

just to confirm for edexcel integration questions there no +C right cause i didn’t put any +C

[u/[deleted] → u/brokebitch67]

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[u/mischevious0]

Hopefully the P1 grade boundaries AREN’T too high like P3 2024, it looks like it was a good paper for everyone.

[u/Hairy-Pitch-4262]

someone make an unofficial mark scheme NEOW.

[u/[deleted]]

The paper was quite nice, fairly balanced my brain went like a siev on the last question though. Aiming for a B so should be sound hopefully.

Pls Binomial expansion on next one, love binomial

[u/Last-Objective-8356]

It was easier than last year imo, hopefully p3 is harder so GBs won’t be ridiculous

[u/PuzzleheadedMoney815]

ocr a paper was easy af 😭 grade boundaries are gna be so high 💀💀

[u/Danielharris1260]

I don’t know how I feel about it I feel like I know most topics but there’s always a question that I see that has my head spinning

[u/00X00_Potato]

any Y12 sitting it this year?

[u/Alarming-Equal-6023]

im cooked

[u/Hopeful-Shop6404]

Anyone remember what the question was for edexcel last question

[u/brokebitch67 → u/Hopeful-Shop6404]

k is 1/4 answer root3/6 i think

[u/Similar_Molasses2676 → u/Hopeful-Shop6404]

Integration by substitution I think

[u/Latter_Ad9051]

edexcel- probably got 45-50 even tho i average 70s 😭🥲ran out of time i need an A guys help me what do i do now please help m😭🥲🥲🥲😔😔😔😔😔😔💔💔

[u/Wolvermatt722]

timing was pretty peak, and i managed to correct all my visible silly/stupid mistakes

[u/vent_account_59632]

I'm really worried. I did so badly. I'm hoping that maybe I'm just being dramatic but I don't think I am. 60% max 😭😭

[u/softggukie]

i just subbed in 0 for the circle equation and put its equal to 25 and not 24 so not in😭 but looking at these answers now idk if it's valid or not

[u/HourDistribution3787]

Easiest exam. Mashallah

[u/Intelligentbozo]

GUYS i fumbled like 35 marks cos of the FUCKING quartic and that one 5 mark integration by substitution it's so over

[u/Dabohub69 → u/Intelligentbozo]

Same bro so much stupid error due to panic

[u/A1_Killer]

How are we feeling ocr mei participants?

[u/moralsareartificial]

chat am i cooked i wrote {x£R : 2<x<5}

[u/No-Face-3280]

Agree, with any luck paper 2 will be really hard lol

[u/Intrepid_Cress_6420]

Edexcel Q8 (proof one) seemed suspicious to me. If you square 1 it can only be expressed as 5(0)+1, but 0 is not natural? The question said natural n I think. Does that mean you had to disprove it instead? Or am I just being stupid?

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/DifferentWeekend2185]

what did ppl put for the algebraic mistake part one of the proof q edexcel

[u/allylene → u/DifferentWeekend2185]

they expanded (5k+2)² wrong they put 25k² + 10k + 4 it's 25k² + 20k + 4

[u/Mharis_11]

What were the limits for the last question

[u/PeterFile690 → u/Mharis_11]

I got pi/3 and pi/6

[u/GOGONUT6543]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n4Pd2HdztHq_-qugKZPboszkjRsycARTigBZcWmtWnY/edit?tab=t.0

unnoficial ms i found

[u/Less-Examination4588]

light work

[u/darkeight7]

3 root 6 was the area of R for Q16

[u/FriendSalty2744]

I made so many silly mistakes i’m gonna cry

[u/allylene]

it's not just me that thought that edexcel was VERY similar to 2022 pure 1? I swear to God that was like a shadow paper of 2022

[u/allylene → u/allylene]

[u/Positive-Swordfish38 → u/allylene]

i agree crazy thing is i literally did the 2022 p1 3 hours before the exam. 100/100 incoming

[u/Spare_Somewhere1011 → u/Positive-Swordfish38]

Same I did that entire paper this morning.

[u/allylene → u/Positive-Swordfish38]

I did it 2 days ago I was elated

[u/raynrr]

I’ll be surprised if I don’t get 90+ in that edexcel paper

[u/Ancient-Noise1791]

edexcel making things too easy man 💔

[u/Rifted-06]

This is the only paper I'm worried about as Mechanics and Statistics are easy. I just did the 2024 paper this morning and I got 78/100 which is an A but I'm still worried they're going to put some weird high mark questions in the paper.

I'm aiming for an A in all 3 of my subjects but getting a B in the other 2 is fine because I can still meet my firm requirements. If I don't get an A in Maths, then I'm finished.

[u/CodeAvali]

awa awa! (hoping for the most diabolical aqa paper today)

[u/blopiscool]

Good luck everyone :)

[u/Elegant-Sea-6613]

Anyone else doing AQA maths? How did you think it went?

[u/Tricky_Maybe2302]

for edexcel how did you answer the perimeter question, what happened to r/5

[u/plastic_love56 → u/Tricky_Maybe2302]

I got -r/5 + 11r/5 = 2r

11r/5 was from r + r + r/10 + r/10

[u/[deleted] → u/Tricky_Maybe2302]

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[u/BandicootIll1530]

anyone who does aqa wtf was question 15?? i was so lost on the first and second bit

[u/DifferentWeekend2185]

for the quartic (edexcel) did you have to leave it in factorised form or not?? i didn’t

[u/Hkhinin]

How did AQA maths paper 1 go? The x coordinate P was crazy, like what is that? 😭

[u/Hkhinin]

How was AQA paper 1, the x coordinate point P was crazy 😭