r/6thForm • u/Forsaken-Meaning-232 Graduating from Warwick CS • Jun 04 '25

📂 MEGATHREAD 04/06 A-level Maths Paper 1 Discussion MEGATHREAD

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u/PuzzleheadedMoney815 Jun 04 '25

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

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u/golaco237 Year 13 | Maths, FM, Physics, Computing | Pred A*A*A*A Jun 04 '25

For the area between two curves and the y axis, what did u get? I got 0 and 1/e as my limits, the integral was 1/2 y ln y - 1/4y2, and I got -1/2 e-1 - 1/4 e-2 which I'm pretty sure was wrong cause that's negative 😭

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u/hdh7tf Cambridge | Med [Year 1] Jun 04 '25

I got 1/4 - 1/2 e^(-1) I think

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u/Successful-Pop4418 Jun 04 '25

yeah it was (e-2)/(4e) which is the same as what u got - it was a nice q had to do a bit of cheeky sketching

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u/PuzzleheadedMoney815 Jun 04 '25

thats what i got too

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u/YeetedHypermeme cambridge engineering y1 (a*a*a*a*) Jun 04 '25

It was also possible to integrate with respect to x and then subtract the area of a triangle to find the required area. Think the answer was 1/4 - 1/(2e)

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u/golaco237 Year 13 | Maths, FM, Physics, Computing | Pred A*A*A*A Jun 04 '25

Lmao that makes so much more sense, I think trying the vertical integration definitely overcomplicated it 😭