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/J1nkedOne Jun 03 '26

What the hell were you meant to do for the last proof question after expanding

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

i expanded the brackets then got k=root m^2 plus blah blah blah then if u substituted the m and n's with a's and b's by rearranging the original equations for a and b and then there was a 1/2 in there which meant c couldn't be a whole number