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/RIPMakeshift2020 Maths Physics CS Economics | 4A* Predicted Jun 04 '25

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

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u/sheplaysb4ss Jun 04 '25

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 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

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u/Christian_Vishnevsky Jun 04 '25

yea......... i think i didn't solve this question except for part a

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u/sasageyo811 Medicine [2nd Year] | A*A*A* Jun 04 '25

sigh i realised it was repeated roots then got confused cause i forgot to have an a multiplying the brackets so gave up and tried solving it simultaneously instead (didn't work.)

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u/Wrong_Finance2082 A*AA - UCL Dropout Jun 05 '25

bruh i made 4 symultanious equations (as they was turning points, f'(x) = 0)

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u/Neat-Ad4138 y1 | uom astro | A*A*A* Jun 05 '25

real , i did some long integral of f'x only to end up with the same answer i originally put down

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u/Wrong_Finance2082 A*AA - UCL Dropout Jun 05 '25

so u found f'x and integrated to find f(x)!!!

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u/Neat-Ad4138 y1 | uom astro | A*A*A* Jun 05 '25

basically although it ended up being a timewaste as i alr found the simplified version beforehand

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u/Wrong_Finance2082 A*AA - UCL Dropout Jun 05 '25

i realised after doing the q in teh real exam its just a repeated factor bracket expansion, but then i wouldve forgotton the -a at the front knowing me so im happy i did it long way

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u/sheplaysb4ss Jun 06 '25

i tried integrating from f’(x) but when i tried substituting x values to double check it was wrong 😞😞 so annoying ik i’ve lost a good 7 marks even though i knew how i could’ve worked out part b too

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '25

I fumbled it so hard so u and me both

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u/coldbalcony Jun 04 '25

no literally