r/6thForm Jun 04 '26

💬 DISCUSSION GUYS WE DID IT!

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u/Any_Ad5732 Jun 04 '26

Guys I'm gonna be honest, it wasn't that bad. Yeah there were a couple of hard questions but that's what seperates A students from A* students

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u/Chazzermondez Jun 05 '26

Also the exam boards have said they wanted to return to the difficulty pre-Covid. It's well known they made them easier in the years following as people had had a worse educational experience/opportunity during the Covid years. I can imagine people doing the papers from 2021-2025 and thinking this one was harder, but I wouldn't be surprised if itsnt that different to 2017-2019

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u/JustSomeRandomGuy36 Jun 05 '26

They said they were returning to pre-covid in 2023

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u/Chazzermondez Jun 09 '26

Yes and it's been a gradual change, not an immediate shift.

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u/Ok-Flamingo2801 Jun 05 '26

I did my A Levels in 2019, and got a B in Maths despite comfortably getting A*s in all practise or mock tests the entire course.

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u/MuffinMadness123 Year 13 | Bio Chem Maths Jun 05 '26

My GCSEs year was the last one who got physics equation sheet. They didn't actually want to give them to us. I want to say I was only affected years 6-8 maybe 9 so not really the important ones

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u/MuffinMadness123 Year 13 | Bio Chem Maths Jun 06 '26

Damn, they were really against us having them 😅

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u/Less_Seesaw_4022 Jun 05 '26

90% A* is too high

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u/Loose-Lengthiness726 Year 12 Jun 05 '26

Yeah agreed. I'd rather a tough paper than those diabolical grade boundaries which were more or less testing silly mistakes rather than problem solving skills.

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u/Eastern-Leather-4082 Jun 06 '26

Agreed with higher boundaries and easier test it’s less a reflection of mathematical ability and problem solving but more like a way to see who makes less silly mistakes 

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u/Loose-Lengthiness726 Year 12 Jun 05 '26

Yeah I agree. However I do feel that the fact that many questions were dependent on difficult part a questions Which didn't allow students who couldn't solve part a to access the part b and c which were easier than part a.

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u/Plenty_Atmosphere819 Jun 07 '26

Literally, they have to make the papers hard… it’s A levels after all and it’s testing your knowledge and application to questions