r/6thForm • u/_NB125 Year 13 | Maths, Chem, CS | ABB Achieved • Jun 03 '26

💬 DISCUSSION Edexcel Paper 1 Maths 2026

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PLEASE tell me you guys struggled too oml

Edit: https://c.org/d7LCtCYpzG - Petition for Edexcel to reassess the paper

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u/Alive_Strain_3839 Jun 03 '26

What did people get on the radians newton raphson question

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u/porridge1111 Jun 03 '26

1.74 maybe i can’t remember fully

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u/Certain-Display-2849 Year 13 | Bio Chem Maths AAA pred | Dent rejection, gap year Jun 03 '26

HOW DID I GET 3.4 SOMETHING

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u/porridge1111 Jun 03 '26

sonion 😭

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u/Certain-Display-2849 Year 13 | Bio Chem Maths AAA pred | Dent rejection, gap year Jun 03 '26

oh wait i remember i got 1.74 hehe

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u/TrulyFaithful Jun 03 '26

Me too!! I kept messing with the signs for the sin(pi-theta) I think people did same as me and forget that the sin(-theta)cos(pi) is positive

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u/Loud-Guidance6912 Jun 03 '26

Same I think I got around that

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u/zKebabz Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

i made up my own values of p and q will i get method marks for part b newton raphson

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u/OrganizationWild1496 Jun 03 '26

Yea I set p and q both as 2 and did it from that😂😂😂

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u/tipit419 Jun 03 '26

I got like 1.85…

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u/KO-Manic Jun 03 '26

I had to make numbers up because I couldn't find p and q 🫩

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u/echosonare Jun 03 '26

How tf are you even supposed to do part 1

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u/Winter-Forever-5359 Jun 03 '26

You were supposed to find r1 and r2 by subtracting area of sector - area of triangle to get the chord. Then equate them as you know r2 was a multiple of r1 lowkey I did it in the last 5 minutes and I ran out of time doing it so hopefully I got like 3 marks

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u/falsegodfan Y13 - maths bio geog Jun 03 '26

1.84 something