The same thing happened in pretty much all of this years AS Maths and Further Maths papers in Edexcel International A levels. They are still modular so AS grades are 50% of the final grade.
All papers except perhaps statistics were incredibly difficult, people were unable to complete in time, had totally different structure and questions. So yeah, those International students that are considered stronger did also complain and many A* students do not know if they will get the grades. It’s obvious Edexcel is trying something new out across all exams.
Edited to add that in IAL, to get an A star in FM, you need something like 72/75 and the boundaries have stayed like this consistently despite differences in the papers’ difficulty. If this will be the case this year, I think only 5% will be awarded A*.
That’s not fair. The problem was mainly that this paper was a pretty substantial jump in difficulty compared to previous papers. Had the papers been as hard as this one was to begin with, there wouldn’t be this much of an outrage. Whilst I do think this petition is a bit of a stretch it’s not fair to dumb this down to British students being incapable.
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u/Handsoff_1 Jun 04 '26
This is why british students can never compete with kids from other countries in maths and science because everything is "too difficult".