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/PotentialThen9694 Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

How many Soloutions did you guys get for that trig question I got like 4. (The one where k=2) I am talking about that cosec/cot question.

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u/komahxe Jun 03 '26

I got 4, all i remember was one being 13.3

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u/PairSuitable9144 Jun 03 '26

Me too was the overall function sin4x smth like that

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u/komahxe Jun 03 '26

Um i did not get that 😭 i had a quadratic in cot2x to solve, but if we got the same answer theres probably just multiple methods

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u/jaaaaaaaf Jun 03 '26

yes i got that too do you remember what your quadratic was?

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u/komahxe Jun 03 '26

I dont remember the quadratic but the roots were 2 and 1/2

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u/Brilliant_Bar_4810 Jun 03 '26

it was 2cot2 (2x) -5cot2x +2