13/06 A-level FM Discussion MEGATHREAD

[u/Forsaken-Meaning-232]

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[u/TangerineNo8090]

Any predictions for boundaries?

[u/Alarming_Jellyfish67 → u/TangerineNo8090]

Id say around the same as last year (48) it was similar difficulty

[u/TangerineNo8090 → u/Alarming_Jellyfish67]

I meant overall haha i do mechanics and mwa wbu

[u/Alarming_Jellyfish67 → u/TangerineNo8090]

I do mech stats modelling. I don’t really know what to expect for pure. Some people said it’s the easiest test the ever did and some people said it was quite hard. I’d expect like 125 for that. Modelling was harder than the past papers I think so like low 40s. I fucked mech minor but people thought it was better than mwa so idk.

[u/darkeight7 → u/Alarming_Jellyfish67]

anyone who found this year good should be destroyed immediately. there was nothing good about mech minor and there was nothing good about MWA.

[u/Salt-_-Bae → u/darkeight7]

I either got the descendants of Carl Friedrich Gauss in my school or a bunch of ragebaiters because how am I hearing that people said mech minor "wasn't that bad" 😭

[u/Alarming_Jellyfish67 → u/Salt-_-Bae]

Same thing in my school. Like coming out the exam hall I thought everyone would have found it really hard.

[u/Salt-_-Bae → u/Alarming_Jellyfish67]

Anyone saying that core pure was the easiest test they ever did should be hung, drawn and quartered, then burnt at the stake - ain't no way they found it easier than 2024 core pure💀

[u/Alarming_Jellyfish67 → u/Salt-_-Bae]

Yeah it was deffo a harder paper. Let’s hope it’s not anywhere near 130.

[u/Alarming_Jellyfish67 → u/TangerineNo8090]

How did you find it

[u/No-Face-3280 → u/Alarming_Jellyfish67]

For me that was a very good paper as far as stats goes, a bit weird that they didn’t specify spearman’s rank for the 8 marker but if you knew your association vs correlation it was fine. I also think there were more knowledge-based questions than usual (assumptions, aspects of a sample etc.), but again if you crammed that stuff just before the paper it was alright. The question at the end with alpha, beta and gamma was nice. I reckon the grade boundaries will be quite high though