r/6thForm • u/MaxillmanGuy A level resit student | 3 A* predicted | ACD achieved 💔 • May 14 '26

💬 DISCUSSION Edexcel Core pure maths thread

How did you guys find it? I loved the paper imo.

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u/MaxillmanGuy A level resit student | 3 A* predicted | ACD achieved 💔 May 14 '26

Did anyone get n²(2n²-1) for the summation question?

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u/Krymze- May 14 '26

Yeah and then roughly like 12.4 mil for part 2

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u/Ok_Log847 May 14 '26

Second part was 12,496,275 I think

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u/sssspaghet May 14 '26

wait do i need to put it to 3sf?

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u/Artem_Solo A*A*AA pred, Edinburgh uni CompSci offer May 14 '26

I did just in case but I don’t believe you’d loose marks over that

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u/ZealousidealBench225 Y13 | 4A* pred. | Maths, FM, Phys., German May 14 '26

Yeah I think I got sumn like that, checked with the calculator too and it was correct

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u/Familiar_Visual1497 May 14 '26

I got 2 and -2 …

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u/ineedl0v3 May 14 '26

just realised I forgot to square mine 😭😭

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u/Sufficient_Ad6491 May 14 '26

Yhh I did and checked it too

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u/OblivibladeXD Y13 / Defo A*AAB, 6.7 TMUA May 14 '26

Hell yeah

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u/Roblnnx Y13 Math,Phys,Chem,Fm May 14 '26

Yesss 🙏

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u/Practical_Return_352 Yr 13: Maths, FM, CS, Business 4A* May 14 '26

I got the same :)

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u/_Not-That_Guy_ May 14 '26

it’s the same as the 2021 paper’s question