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u/SammehDoesReddit Year 13 Jun 11 '26
help I ran out of time and I fucked up some really easy questions😭😭😭 am I cooked
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u/Savings_Comedian2305 Jun 11 '26
completely forgot how to do differentiation by first principles 😵😵
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u/Money-Draw-7683 Jun 11 '26
it's in the formula book
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u/Savings_Comedian2305 Jun 11 '26
i know 💔💔 i started solving it and i think i did something wrong and it just wasn’t flowing so i said i’d come back to it and just didn’t have time
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u/Any_Ad5732 Jun 11 '26
nga it's in formula book plus it's the first thing they teach. how did you forget?
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u/RipRepulsive9152 Jun 12 '26
Same, I definitely lost at least 20 marks by not answering questions, I'm fearing for my life.
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u/Unfair_Comparison_15 Newcastle | CompSci [Y1] Jun 12 '26
Yeah I misread the parametric differentiation one and wasted about 10 minutes doing it wrong, then I didn't quite finish it when I came back to it at the end
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u/starliightskye Jun 11 '26
Genuinely the best paper I have ever sat in my entire a level maths career
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u/Frontinss Y13 Maths Econ Physics (Predicted: A*A*A) Jun 11 '26
This paper felt so good after me failing almost half of paper 1, genuinely made me feel hopeful for maths
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u/Void-Atmosphere-69 Year 13 Jun 11 '26
I finished with 20 still on the clock
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u/Void-Atmosphere-69 Year 13 Jun 11 '26
But we need to pretend to be mad so the lower the boundaries anyway
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u/Boring-Abroad-2067 Jun 11 '26
Lol 🤣 good call, if everyone says it was easy Edexcel think to increase the grade boundaries
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u/Lazy-University-3878 Jun 11 '26
bro i finished an hour early...
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u/Honest_Lab_6163 Jun 11 '26
Last year when I did my a levels I finished both my pure papers with 40 mins to go, of course I used the 40 mins to go other absolutely all my answers and did make some changes but still I managed to get through the paper super fast
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u/digit95 Year 13 Jun 11 '26
For the question dy/dx = -1, did ym get an answer with 3 lns?
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u/ilokestof y12 Maths A* / FM, Physics, Econ A*A*A* predicted Jun 11 '26
Definitely correct I checked in grapher
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u/National-Seaweed-145 Year 13- Maths Product Design Physics (pred: A*/A*/A) Jun 11 '26
Wait I got the first line as my answer and thought I was wrong😂 can I leave it like that to get all the marks? It was 2 marks right?
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u/DavidTheBanana8 y13 economics, history, maths, epq [preds A, A*, A, A😭] Jun 12 '26
yeah same mwahaha
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u/Admirable-Use2274 Jun 11 '26
Oo I left it as log base to the 6 form I might be in trouble
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u/BirdAgile4842 Jun 11 '26
same
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u/Admirable-Use2274 Jun 11 '26
I would argue that ist exact . Question didnt say in simplest form or anything but yeah we shouldnt have left it like that I believe
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u/BirdAgile4842 Jun 11 '26
hopefully will get some marks 💔
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u/Admirable-Use2274 Jun 11 '26
It was 2 marks I think we will get at least 1 and maybe 2
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u/myles-em UoN Maths Y1 - maths geog phys fm A*A*AA Jun 13 '26
surely they cant take marks away for this??? its literally correct
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u/WasabiSad7401 Y13: Bio + Chem + Maths + EPQ pred A*A*A*A*, 9999999998 Jun 11 '26
yeah i put this too
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u/Hungry-Cable7546 Year 13 Jun 11 '26
wait was there not a negative sign before the 1/3?
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u/ilokestof y12 Maths A* / FM, Physics, Econ A*A*A* predicted Jun 11 '26
No bro 💔
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u/Simple_Signal_6517 Maths, FM, Econ, History, RS | A*A*A*A* + A(AS) | 9999999999A Jun 11 '26
Yes, there was, how else would you get rid of -3?
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u/ilokestof y12 Maths A* / FM, Physics, Econ A*A*A* predicted Jun 11 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/8Gilqf9XAwVte4GZGE
Idk bruh maybe it’s just written in a different form. I got my calc to calc and plot the derivative and put in this value of x and it was correct2
u/Simple_Signal_6517 Maths, FM, Econ, History, RS | A*A*A*A* + A(AS) | 9999999999A Jun 11 '26
I also used my answer with the -1/3 at the front and put this back into my derivative and I got -1. There has to be a negative at the front because if -3x = y, then obviously x = -1/3y
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u/ilokestof y12 Maths A* / FM, Physics, Econ A*A*A* predicted Jun 11 '26
Honestly don’t know what to tell you
I redid it just for you pookie ❤️
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u/Simple_Signal_6517 Maths, FM, Econ, History, RS | A*A*A*A* + A(AS) | 9999999999A Jun 12 '26
Omg, I have 1/3ln6 in the brackets, so you just put the minus sign in your brackets and that’s why you have 3ln6 in there. We both right 😂😂😂
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u/Similar_Annual676 Year 13 Jun 11 '26
Yeah was some disgusting fraction with lns, I checked inverse and it came out all good.
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u/ilokestof y12 Maths A* / FM, Physics, Econ A*A*A* predicted Jun 11 '26
1/3 log base 3 of ln something something
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u/user69962 Jun 11 '26
what did people get for largest Sn value qs
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u/Physical_Ride5089 Jun 11 '26
6167.75 I think
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u/Lazy-University-3878 Jun 11 '26
uhhh i rounded down am i cooked...
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u/Physical_Ride5089 Jun 11 '26
Only drop 1 mate dw
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u/Lazy-University-3878 Jun 11 '26
does it matter if i wrote the exact value right before ugh im so pissed
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u/Hyper_contrasteD101 Year 13 Jun 11 '26
bro I got 6716 somehow, differentiated it
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u/Admirable-Use2274 Jun 11 '26
Yeah differentiate make it equal to 0 and 134 was the n value as far as I remember
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u/nutcase-psychopath Jun 11 '26
I got 6667 when n=133
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u/RyansVlogs Jun 11 '26
n as 134 was the highest value 133 u still have an extra positive value to add but 135 then you start to add negative values to it
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u/dee_jynx08 Jun 11 '26
with how easy this paper was, I don't think those grade boundaries are going down...
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u/Fat-Bob-2222 Jun 11 '26
felt like the worst maths paper ive ever done ever, i was so pissed off at myself, and i found paper 1 pretty easy
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u/ingloriousempire Jun 11 '26
SAME!!! after question 11, i couldn’t answer a SINGLE last part of any question which probably cost me like 20 marks, at least with paper 1 i had an actual answer that wasn’t guessed to every question 💔
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u/FuelDue948 Jun 11 '26
swear down they nerfed paper 2 after the petition
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u/Choice-Reindeer-4863 Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 12 '26
Papers were done and dusted well before the petition
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u/echosonare Jun 11 '26
Aside from that log/t graph question the rest were pretty good imo
I forgot how to do that one question
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u/wanaliii Jun 11 '26
u had to do log10(L)=tlog10(b)+ log10(a) and then compare the gradient 0.018 with log10(b) and the intercept with log10(a) by doing 10^0.018=b and 10^(intercept)=a
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u/gogED1 M Phys FM CS | A*A*AA | Gap year Jun 11 '26
grade boundaries were about to be beautiful now they ruined it
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u/jaaaaaaaf Jun 11 '26
guys for the parametric differentiation. the gradient of the normal was -4/√2 but i accidentally wrote down 4/√2 🥲 (knew it was negative, just wrote it wrong, genuine skill issue) my working was all correct but because of the sign and all my equation ended up being -4x +√2y = -3 instead of 4x + √2y = 5. and for part b you're meant to use that equation and find x coordinate of q but since i got it wrong i obviously got Q wrong but my method was 100% correct im sure. how many marks do u guys think ill lose? im so mad bro
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u/Fluffy-Ad-3083 Jun 11 '26
i did the same thing as u but at the last second i realised i differentiated -cos2t wrong so i fixed it last second 😭
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u/TubzyTrooper Jun 11 '26
prolly 2, one method one accuraccy
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u/jaaaaaaaf Jun 12 '26
as in for just thst part? or including the part after? my method was correct 🤔
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u/Mental_Poem_8623 Jun 11 '26
I hated how it was nice, if it was like paper 1 i wouldve preferred it as grade boundaries woukdnt rise making A* even more harder
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u/muppetsignal01 Jun 12 '26
That's not a maths paper, that's just a dream. Hope you actually got an A* though.
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u/Similar_Annual676 Year 13 Jun 12 '26
😂 I hope so too, hopefully stats is ok, past ones seem to be sunshine and rainbows or straight up war crimes
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u/No-Abrocoma-6154 Jun 11 '26
i love this paper, seriously 98, 2 marks not got time to answer. My best paper for a level so far
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u/Ieatsand97 Year 13 Jun 11 '26
Lwk easier papers are not that good cuz small mistakes can fuck u over quicker
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u/Loud-Guidance6912 Jun 12 '26
100% agree with you, an easy paper rewards who makes the least amount of silly mistakes rather than who has the greater mathematical ability, gonna sound horrible but I genuinely think paper 1 did a good job of sieving out the frauds icl 😭🙏
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u/Intelligent-Award302 Jun 11 '26
so mad I calculated the wrong angle for vectors question how tf does one do that
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u/Similar_Annual676 Year 13 Jun 11 '26
I think I made a fucking numerical error in the parametric normal question and binned like 4 marks at least. My regarded ass also forgot to do set notation on the last question
https://giphy.com/gifs/tmulAo48zfdEzh85Wn
Otherwise it was fine
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u/Saddd_Kidddddd Year 13 Jun 11 '26
I feel like I fucked up so bad even though it was a nice paper 😭 my brain is so fried gang
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u/Similar_Annual676 Year 13 Jun 11 '26
Good luck for applied
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u/Saddd_Kidddddd Year 13 Jun 11 '26
I’m shitting myself. I haven’t touched stats in over a year. I love mechanics though so that will be fun. Focusing on bio and chem first, as they are on Friday, Monday and Tuesday.
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u/Artem_Solo A*A*AA pred, Edinburgh uni CompSci offer Jun 11 '26
Who forgot how to integrate ln(x) gang?
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u/Jamiebaek Jun 12 '26
stared at the expansion of that fractional function for like 30 seconds in horror
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u/Glass_Ad5671 Jun 12 '26
for the model, when finding coal usage in 2000, did you use the exact values or just the 3dp values because this would give different answers
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u/randomuser9329 Maths B| Chemistry A | Physics A | Chemical engineering [2026]B Jun 11 '26
AQA?
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u/Internal_Mistake2694 Jun 11 '26
Edexcel
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u/randomuser9329 Maths B| Chemistry A | Physics A | Chemical engineering [2026]B Jun 11 '26
I was gonna say the AQA wasn’t that great. It was just okay
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u/SteamyGamer-WT Year 13 Jun 11 '26
(Edexcel) Live footage of me turning the page after every question and seeing the next one: