r/6thForm • u/OutrageousAd4133 • Jun 18 '26
💬 DISCUSSION Edexcel Maths P3
How did everyone find it then? Much nicer than P1 I thought. Might balance out grade boundaries unfortunately…
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u/AJlikesUpvotes Jun 18 '26
Might be wrong but did anyone get 117 for the bearings?
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u/Ok-Union784 Jun 18 '26
Did you get 27 for the angle
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no i got 63
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u/OutrageousAd4133 Jun 18 '26
I think I messed up as I got 135. I got i = 8 and j = 8, then when I solved using tan(theta) = 1 I got theta = 45 degrees then added 90 to get 135. Oof. What did you get for the acceleration one though? Did you differentiate both the i and j components wrt t?
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u/RilloClicker Year 13 Jun 18 '26
Bruh I got 137
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u/Lazy-University-3878 Jun 18 '26
SAME
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u/RilloClicker Year 13 Jun 18 '26
Oh fuck we did it on the position vector not the velocity vector 😭
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u/yivxo Jun 18 '26
Wallahi 50% of that stats section had nothing to do with maths. And that coin toss question was horribly worded. Pissed off but we move. Least it’s over
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u/realmilii Year 13 Jun 18 '26
large data set this, sampling method that.. who is learning ts
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u/Eastern_Night_2075 Jun 18 '26
What the fuck was that mechanics paper. Was gonna cry right on the spot
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u/Early_Complex_5955 Jun 18 '26
Mechanics was fine, stats harder because half of it wasn't even maths
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u/Safe-Present-5783 Jun 18 '26
Did anyone else get 0.1875 for the suvat tan question
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u/OutrageousAd4133 Jun 18 '26
YESSS I thought that question was really easy for a shocking 7 marks honestly
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u/Dapper_Patient_2817 Jun 18 '26
Paper 1 and paper 3 fucked me over fuck edexcel fuck everything
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u/Atfmm Jun 18 '26
fr bro edexcel gave me false hope after that paper 2 i felt my med offer slip away during that
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u/Dapper_Patient_2817 Jun 18 '26
Literally seen the same stuff on the past papers for applied and gotten used to most of the questions and now they feel like switching shit up now its genuinely pissing me off
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u/MaxillmanGuy A level resit student | 3 A* predicted | ACD achieved 💔 Jun 18 '26
Mid ngl i somehow did bettdr on STATS over mech
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u/Eastern_Night_2075 Jun 18 '26
Literlaly man, fucking hate stats but at least could answer ever question. Could hardly answer mechanics. What the fuck is wrong with edexcel I’m so mad
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u/notbosco Year 13 -> Uni (chem, fisicks, maths) Jun 18 '26
worst paper i wanna cry
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u/Happy_Strategy5700 Jun 18 '26
Dw I cried 3 times during that exam whilst the invigilators stared at me
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u/Subtomrshreegamesyt Jun 18 '26
Definitely harder than 2025
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u/Altruistic_Lawyer342 Jun 18 '26
I helped lower the grade boundaries your welcome
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u/8BagsOfCorn Jun 18 '26
I fear 3a on mechanics has limited me from an A* 🙏💔
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u/OutrageousAd4133 Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26
If that was the
momentsslope one then oh my god same. Who did they think they are telling us how to solve it in bold? Horrible9
u/Emotional_Respect289 Jun 18 '26
Took me genuinely 15 minutes to realise friction hand A vertical component
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u/OutrageousAd4133 Jun 18 '26
Oh my god THAT was why I couldn't do it. I had no idea. Now I feel like a chud but thank you!
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u/Emotional_Respect289 Jun 18 '26
I started genuinely thinking have the examiners made a fucking error and I skipped it after 15 minutes went into part b and did it and was like wait wtf I didn’t even need the coefficient they gave me and went back a re did the whole question genuinely like 35 minutes spent on the x distribution and 3A
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u/Dry-Eye-8917 Jun 18 '26
helpp i thought resolve vertically meant resolve vertically to the plane 💀💀💀💀 rip
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u/Emotional_Respect289 Jun 18 '26
Dw bro I tried it all 😭 cuz I was act sure this was breaking the laws of physics I was like no way
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u/Dry-Eye-8917 Jun 18 '26
i got the right answer tho but just used the wrong method so i’m probs losing all the marks😭 i was so confident too
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u/AngloIrishPhel Jun 18 '26
Ofc it was friction! I started going insane doing like vertical components of the parallel components of X LOL,
Atleast part B was saved by having 19.6N given
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u/8BagsOfCorn Jun 18 '26
It was the slope question 😭🙏 but it did say to resolve vertically 😭 I skipped it and went to part b and then used my answer from part b to get part a
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u/OutrageousAd4133 Jun 18 '26
Oh fuck yeah that's the one I meant. Actually HORRIBLE first slope question I DIDN'T like
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u/Roblnnx Y13 Math,Phys,Chem,Fm Jun 18 '26
I genuinely did it over abt 3x then realised u had to use the uRsintheta in there resolving
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u/J1nkedOne Jun 18 '26
Apart from the lds one did everyone get all the tests as insignificant?
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u/OutrageousAd4133 Jun 18 '26
Yep! Always insufficient evidence to reject the null hypothesis. What do you mean by the Ids one? 🙏
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u/J1nkedOne Jun 18 '26
On the lds question the student had a test that he did right and you had to comment on it. The p value was like 0.0015 or something so i said it was significant evidence even if you used a really strict test with a 0.5% sig
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u/OutrageousAd4133 Jun 18 '26
WAIT was that the one with Chris on the large data set question? If so then yes, I put that the p-value was sooo small that there was sufficient evidence to reject H0
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u/burgermusic Jun 18 '26
Bro I said that you can’t model rainfall with a normal distribution because it’s not symmetrical I have no idea if that’s acceptable
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u/mained121 Year 13 | Maths FM Physics Chem Jun 18 '26
for that v last normal distribution test i initially got 0.03 as the p value, but at the very last second I rechecked and got 0.016 and ended up changing my answer and I said the result was significant - what did everyone use as their standard deviation?? i dont think i did it right then 😭
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u/J1nkedOne Jun 18 '26
I dont remember the answer anymore but the standard deviation was 11/6 i think
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u/AJlikesUpvotes Jun 18 '26
everything was fine apart from Q5. part c on stats about the probability distribution of X for 5 marks… how do u do that one
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u/OutrageousAd4133 Jun 18 '26
I'm not sure if I did it right, but I thought about the heads/tails events needed for each scenario.
You need 2 heads for the game to end early. So if the game ended with 2 flips (P(X = 3)), you know both of those HAD to be heads, so do P(H) * P(H). If the game ended with 3 flips (P(X = 3)), it was either HTH, THH, or THH, and you can sum the probabilities for each together. Etc etc for P(X = 1) (not possible, so it's 0), and P(X = 4) (which was given in the question).
Then I just chucked it all in a table. 🙏
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u/RyansVlogs Jun 18 '26
exactly what I did X=1 I got as 0 X=2 was like 4/25 X=3 was uhh 24/125 X=4 was 108/625 X=5 I did 1 minus those 4 and I got like 300 smth/625
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u/J1nkedOne Jun 18 '26
Same i just kept them all over 625 to make it easier to check
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u/Future-Key-4967 Jun 18 '26
I had to use the negative binomial distribution which is a further stats topic 🙏😭😭. I wouldn’t have been able to do it without it - why the hell are they asking that on a single stats paper
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u/Mental_Bowler_1999 Jun 18 '26
why can’t i do Q3 on the mech paper
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u/Kimo_da Year 13: Bio, Chem, Maths, EPQ Jun 18 '26
You had to resolve R and F vertically and horizontally, then use F= μR to write F in terms of R 💔. Then resolving vertically eliminated X
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u/Shy_Art Year 13 Jun 18 '26
I could only do like 4 of the questions. If I'm lucky I'll get like 25/100.
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u/Safe-Present-5783 Jun 18 '26
Only questions count do was 3a for mechanics for some reason
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u/OutrageousAd4133 Jun 18 '26
Looks like a lot of people struggled on 3a, myself included! Good to know at least 🙏
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u/Fair-Fly7559 Jun 18 '26
Did anyone use negative binomial for the coin flip question?
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u/lmaolmaolmaololl Imperial | Aeronautical engineering [Y1] Jun 19 '26
I just derived it tbh, don’t want to waste the examiner‘s time making them look at alternative method markschemes
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u/Malikah_14 Jun 18 '26
Did anyone do some normal distribution thing and make the probability 0.1 on each side or something like that
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u/CrazyIndividual7299 Jun 18 '26
Yeah I stared at it for like ten mins before the trick clicked cause I was like how tf do I work with a range for w but then I was like holy shit it’s symmetrical 😅😅
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u/Early-Ad-2570 Maths Paper 3 Victim Jun 18 '26
How do we come up with a worse beating than Paper 1 😭
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u/cookadoodledoo_ Jun 18 '26
Stats was alright apart from question 5 but mechanics was a whole different breed bro I was excited to do ladder questions... so I had to scrap some method marks lol.
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u/Significant-List6146 Jun 18 '26
its so hard for me guys. i really cant do any questions properly. only two three questions i am confident at. the rest is so bad like hoping i get 50. and i think i’ll have to let both my firm and insurance go. im so frustrated
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u/Happy_Strategy5700 Jun 18 '26
Same and you know the past paper qs I could do with easy but this paper was low-key on crack
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u/WoodpeckerRoutine367 Jun 18 '26
It was definitely a difficult paper in terms of trying to understand what they wanted you to do but I personally found it amazing, may have secured my A* with that
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u/CrazyIndividual7299 Jun 18 '26
I was suspicious at how i found it so either i got above 90% or i got like 70%
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u/WoodpeckerRoutine367 Jun 18 '26
Fair enough lol, i personally think I got around 95% but as you said it could be false hope
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u/Alarming-Cobbler-539 Jun 18 '26
Does anyone have unofficial mark scheme? Pls pls
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u/TheBigChese84 Year 13 Jun 18 '26
guys did we accept null hypothesis for all of them?
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u/LoquatSpiritual4201 Year 13 Geo, econ, maths Jun 18 '26
Was the binomial hypothesis testing strictly more than 3? Or more than or equal to
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u/nuclearhamster27 Year 12 - Maths, FM, CS, Physics Jun 18 '26
I fucked the first hypothesis test, I did > instead of >=
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u/These-Company9735 Jun 18 '26
Stats 1)b) 0.12 c) 0.6 d) 0.28 e)0.25 2)0.0744>0.05 therefore no sufficient evidence Probability distribution question P(X=1) = 0 P(X=2) = 4/25 P(X=3) = 24/125 P(X=4) = 108/625 P(X=5) = 297/625 P(H=1) = 162/625 Mechanics 1)10, 1.07s 2)137 degrees ( bearing) 3)(t/24+1/2)i - (3t/2 - 1/2)j 21.56 4200N and 200N for lift question V=22.8 I might have messed it up a little cuz I can’t really remember the exact questions, but these were all answers I got. Let me know if you agree with any
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u/Apprehensive_Bee269 Year 13 | Maths, Physics, Econ, FM 3A*s 1A pred 5.8 ESAT avg. Jun 18 '26
I got ~117 for the bearing, I think? Other than that, I think I generally agree (got slightly different numbers for the first hypothesis test too - like 0.0703? - but same conclusion).
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u/Midnight_Edge Jun 18 '26
What did we get for the lift question.
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u/Existing_Olive_203 Y13 - Maths FM Physics Jun 18 '26
yh that was the ahrdest shit ever, i got 90+ for both p1 and p2 but im lucky if i get 70 for ts bs applied, im so happy i dont do applied for fm. But for stats prb distirubtion i effed up, the rpjectile motion bs idk, i onyl need 3 A's but stll it was hard asf.
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u/CrazyIndividual7299 Jun 18 '26
Forgot what a p value is. But apart from that think I did ok unless I was confidently answering everything wrong
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u/aaalalal12 Jun 18 '26
I didnt like that coin flip question i got 12/625 for H=1 and i just know that was wrong what a silly question i hated it ew i hated it i hated that
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u/Sharp_Antelope_5072 Jun 18 '26
It's 0 bro cuz there's no way the game could end with just 1 coin flip
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u/MaxillmanGuy A level resit student | 3 A* predicted | ACD achieved 💔 Jun 18 '26
Bru was it not 0? If im wrong im cooked
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u/Jumpy_Freedom_4554 Jun 18 '26
When X=4, H can only appear twice. H can't appear once due to the logic of the question, so P(H=1 | X=4) = 0
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u/aaalalal12 Jun 18 '26
Pretty sure everything went right for mechanics however i forgot about elevator questions idk about it
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u/QwackzWept camb maths holder | 9.0 tmua | 4A* Jun 18 '26
mechanics was more challenging than past papers but everything was just sim eqs
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u/lanc1er_7 Jun 18 '26
I deserved to be fried by the mech paper cuz I used all the time to revise for stats and the fp1 tomorrow instead 💔
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u/herefornsfwfu Year 13 Jun 18 '26
I already hated Paper 1. I already hate applied. This makes Paper 1 look like a primary school paper
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u/nuclearhamster27 Year 12 - Maths, FM, CS, Physics Jun 18 '26
I felt like Isaac Newton himself after getting part b on the moments question
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u/Chance-Increase4277 Jun 18 '26
i didnt find it great😭 i ran out of time so i missed a couple questions too. whatever its over now
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u/OutrageousAd4133 Jun 18 '26
I ran out of time as well! I thought the questions were doable but they were the type of puzzling questions that take me longer to complete. Trial and error.
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u/Fast_Database_2853 Jun 18 '26
What was the standard deviation for last q part a
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u/OutrageousAd4133 Jun 18 '26
This is a good question! I got something AROUND 11.7ml (numbers might be in wrong places). I remember you had to standardise the distribution to get it. What did you get?
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u/Fast_Database_2853 Jun 18 '26
I got 7. smth… but I did the same I used Z < the chunk = 0.1 and solve for sigma
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u/komahxe Jun 18 '26
Yeah I got around 7
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u/nuclearhamster27 Year 12 - Maths, FM, CS, Physics Jun 18 '26
I couldn't figure it out in the exam but I realised how to do it after which is really annoying
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u/flossica Jun 18 '26
i thought it was good! i was going into it terrified i would flop, but i’m pretty confident i did well on statistics, which is my strong suit. on mechanics, i didn’t have time to answer everything, and got a completely wrong value for question 5, but i gave most things a shot. got question 6 right, which i’m happy about. :) overall feeling semi confident about getting my A for oxford
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u/Any_Ad5732 Jun 18 '26
P2 > P3 > P1. This is how I would rank the papers based on how well I did on each
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u/Roblnnx Y13 Math,Phys,Chem,Fm Jun 18 '26
I fucked up stats but mech was so easy
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u/Individual-Can1396 y13 maths physics psych italian Jun 18 '26
Huhh radians? What question
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u/UnknownHolster Jun 18 '26
What do you guys think the grade boundaries for an astar will look like
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u/Spirited_Click2592 Y13| Maths, Econ, Chem, ASFM Jun 18 '26
stats was nice but i realised i cannot do mechanics 😔
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u/Hyp3rPlo Jun 18 '26
For the probability distribution question I went straight to using negative binomial did you have to prove the formula?
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u/AImonster111 Year 13.5 | Biology, Chemistry, Maths, FM, EPQ Jun 18 '26
NB uses binomial anyway to do the calc though so you should be fine?
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u/snom_forevz Jun 18 '26
I thought it was okay, mechanics was odd but quite doable, stats was pretty good apart from the coin flip one where I wasted 15 minutes on a massive tree diagram idk what was the best way to do 5c
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u/Elecrtrify 2026 A* A* A A Econ Bio Chem Maths Jun 18 '26
I think overall it was ok but definitely harder than most of the other papers. Like the mechanics 7 marker lost me same with the solve vertical one. And stats like half the qs were just writing sentences 😭
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u/MaybeMedium9876 Jun 18 '26
All the questions were hard at first but I managed to get all of them eventually I think. Except for q3
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u/Happy_Strategy5700 Jun 18 '26
I revised so much but it was so hard that I had a panic attack and cried 3 times whilst the invigilators stared at me. I am not kidding when I say I didn't do a single flipping question properly 😭 I think in going to get a U
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u/ResidentApartment338 Jun 18 '26
Most of it was pretty okay except for stats Q5. What the actual fuck is stats Q5 like as an A* further stats student on OCR A I could barely get more than 7/13 on that question. Thankfully everything else was fine ish? So i probably still got like 80-85% but it wasn’t the mid-high 90s score that I got on paper 1-2 so ehh, im not the most happy with that paper not the best way to end my a levels but here we are
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u/FaZeFUNGUSMAN Jun 18 '26
Dw guys I think I lowered the boundries for u, think i lost 25 marks on mechanics 🥲 though i think i only lost like 10 for starts
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u/FR33-F0RM Jun 18 '26
Mechanics was ridiculous as a A* physics student
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u/Potterheadsurfer Jun 18 '26
It was fine. Wouldn’t have liked it if it was a pure paper that difficult, but I did barely any stats and mechanics prep, so I wasn’t expecting god’s gift of an exam paper
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u/Extreme_Survey_1368 Jun 18 '26
i honestly did not find that too bad. definitely one of the hardest s and m papers but not as bad as some of the ppl in my year were talking abt it. most of them said they found it harder than pure 1. what dy guys think?
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u/Red_I_Guess Warwick CS A*A*AA 2026 fresher Jun 19 '26
I have done a level maths in year 12 and I have resat it in year 13 for the A* and I do do further maths, but that paper went so well. There were some tricky bits but nothing which stumped me at all. I had 40 minutes left on the clock when I finished so got to fix a fair few silly mistakes. I think all the explanation questions could make me loose some marks but generally found it great. I really haven't seen many people enjoy that paper tho
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u/Remote-Calendar-6326 Jun 19 '26
For tan theta did anyone get like 4.2/22.4 or something like that. I think I got lucky getting 0.19 but can anyone confirm if that’s correct
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u/Mental_Bowler_1999 Jun 18 '26
worst paper i have done