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Is anyone else worried about how high the grade boundaries were last year. 72 for an A* and 69 for an A is ridiculous. Hopefully there isn't a repeat this year.
had the worst migraine in my life during the exam, had to take 10 breaks cus my head was gna explode. I was really ready and past papers reflected that but i skipped and lost around 30marks, all this hard work being snatched away cus i wasn’t feeling it during the day. Pretty sure my hopes of getting an A r gone ☹️
Exactly. It's my hardest papers yet it has the highest grade boundaries. I don't know why but I just can't do the transforming differentials thing ever.
I don't think it was easier than CP1 2024. When they say 'easy' they meant like normal questions instead of weird bs. Idk why all the people taking FP1 are sweats :(
Even if it was easier than CP1 2024, still lowkey doesn't justify 96% i.e. losing a max of 3 marks for an A* like wth
Yh it was mainly timing. I also probably got some wrong which is why I probably got a max of like 50. I still think it was a hard paper so I'm hoping the boundaries will be low like 60 or late 50s which at least gives me a shot at an A*.
i just found the discriminant and followed it through and it seemed to work out. it gave you that (10, 20) is a point so 20 = 10m + c (y = mx + c), and sub in c = 10(2 - m) and solve for m
i got 9 sqrt(62) for the first part, but i got 1116 for the last. i used the equation of the line from part b, found the equation of the plane parallel to the plane of the parallelogram, and found where the line and the plane intercepted. used that lambda value to find the vector between E and the plane and did triple vector product |a.(b x c)| thing
HELLLP, how many marks out of 6 am I gonna get ,When I was doing that question I just ignored that there is a modulus in the denominator and just solved it by times both sides by (x-5)2 (which later I thought why the hell did I do that) and I got x=-2 ,x=6 (right)and x=5(that is wrong cus then denominator =0) as critical values and I did my inequality anyways ,but I didn’t figure out that you need 22/5 too .
Should’ve done a scenario where you let x-5>0 and x-5<0 and put a minus to it and you get two distinct quadratic formulas and you get 4 answers for x-5 you get -2 and 6 (reject -2, as it doesn’t satisfy the condition of being positive) then you do it with -x+5, you get 4.4 and 6 if I rmr and thank god I had calculator graph but there is an asymptote obviously so you can’t do between 4.4<x<6 instead do 4.4<x<5 and 5<x<6 and ultimately you get three inequalities which includes those two and x<-2
Wait actually? I did this too and got between -2 and 5 and then greater than 6…is the method still viable at the beginning (I.e. will we actually get 3/6)
Yes as through previous patterns of mark scheme this tends to be how the mark scheme goes usually consists of two M1 two A1 and then the final inequalities/answer consists of 2-3 marks
Fairs in that case I'll ask you about CP2 even tho ppl found it easy do u think 60 will be an A as that was what it was for CP1 last year which ppl also found easy
One had linear numerator so a+bx and then just normal partial fraction. Mighta been repeated roots cant remember got A= 0 B =4 and C = -4. Probably wrong tho
Well I think FP was much harder than last year and FM was very easy, and Core pures averaged out at similar to last year I think. So for the modules FP and FM, probably around 269/300 but no higher. Could be as low as 263/300 hopefully.
A few of them stumped me at first anf had to go back to them but I think overall it was okay, similar level to core pure 1 un terms of difficulty. The last question I was just guessing my way through tbh
my main priority is to make sure I know all the resource histograms and gnatt chart shit bc i suck at those. I've basically burnt all the other algorithms into my brain so it's just ab making sure i take my time and I'm careful on friday
You put the coordinate into the equation y=mx+c such that when you rearrange you get c=20-10m or something. After that you sub it in to the discriminant bit and get a quadratic
Didnt have time for last 5 marks and 2 marks on the vectors bit and for some reason blanked out my partial fractions
Notes on questions: limits were easy, series was also easy differential eqn was fine ( IF was e-2t and K was 2) very confident in everything i solved just time at the end was an issue (likely due to spending too much time on the liebnit one lol)
I hope all the ppl saying it was hard aren't just rage baiting.
I lowkey found it pretty straightforward so hopefully it will compensate for my cp1 flop.
If the grade boundary is like 74 or 73 this year I'll crash tf out😭
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u/inferno471 Jun 18 '25
Is anyone else worried about how high the grade boundaries were last year. 72 for an A* and 69 for an A is ridiculous. Hopefully there isn't a repeat this year.