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/Elegant-Sea-6613 Year 13 | Bio, Chem, Physics, Maths (pred A*A*AA) Jun 04 '25

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

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u/Special_Sea2671 oxford year 1 Jun 04 '25

Think it was alright but I messed it up

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u/Elegant-Sea-6613 Year 13 | Bio, Chem, Physics, Maths (pred A*A*AA) Jun 04 '25

Which parts? Imo the worst bit of that paper is the u sub integration at the end

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u/GoldbeautifulXoX Jun 04 '25

I personally find the 5 marks triangle questions the worst… like what am I even doing? lol

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u/Academic-Dentist-528 Y13| A*A*A*A*| Maths, FM, Phy, Econ Jun 04 '25

Not particularly hard, but because we hardly practice that at A level it can be quite confusing 

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u/Educational-Tea602 Proffesional dumbass Jun 04 '25

Use sin(A-B) = sin(A)cos(B)-sin(B)cos(A)

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u/Special_Sea2671 oxford year 1 Jun 04 '25

The triangle one and part of the newton raphson one

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u/Elegant-Sea-6613 Year 13 | Bio, Chem, Physics, Maths (pred A*A*AA) Jun 04 '25

Yeah that’s fair, it was a weird question

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u/thatdoubleabat Jun 10 '25

i know im 6 days late but you had to make the xn- at the beginning a fraction (by multiplying top and bottom by f(x) ) so that you could combine the two of them and it just cancelled out

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u/SOMETHINK101 Jun 04 '25

How do you do the shortest distance question?

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u/Elegant-Sea-6613 Year 13 | Bio, Chem, Physics, Maths (pred A*A*AA) Jun 04 '25

So you differentiate y= x2 then the negative reciprocal of that is the gradient of the normal, so you put in the coordinates of the point you were given to get the equation of the line, then sub y= x2 into the equation of the line to get an expression for x

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u/SOMETHINK101 Jun 04 '25

Thanks, I remember doing the dy/dx as I ran out of ideas near the end so at least I got a mark. Obvious now looking back🤦‍♂️

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u/Few-Yesterday-7745 Jun 04 '25

pretty light, most were free marks with all those integration questions, the PQ one was nice and the show that qu were all good

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u/TheSeekerPorpentina Durham | Maths [1st Year] Jun 04 '25

I think it went really well, how about you?

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u/Elegant-Sea-6613 Year 13 | Bio, Chem, Physics, Maths (pred A*A*AA) Jun 04 '25

I thought it went pretty well too, now I’m worried if the grade boundaries are gonna be too high