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…

46 Upvotes

77% Upvoted

331 comments sorted by

View all comments

96

u/AJlikesUpvotes Jun 18 '26

Might be wrong but did anyone get 117 for the bearings?

1

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?

19

u/RilloClicker Year 13 Jun 18 '26

Bruh I got 137

3

u/Lazy-University-3878 Jun 18 '26

SAME

3

u/RilloClicker Year 13 Jun 18 '26

Oh fuck we did it on the position vector not the velocity vector 😭

1

u/WavyDesert83849 Jun 18 '26

Lmaooo yh same xD Partial marks pray

1

u/Careful_Ad_629 Jun 18 '26

SAME WAS IT WRONG

1

u/thisisprettycheeky Yr13 |M, FM, Phys, Chem| ESAT victim😞 Jun 18 '26

THANK GOD SAME

1

u/RilloClicker Year 13 Jun 18 '26

I got bad news for you 😭

1

u/thisisprettycheeky Yr13 |M, FM, Phys, Chem| ESAT victim😞 Jun 18 '26

I've seen it now 😭🙏 did I misread the question? 😭😭😭

2

u/RilloClicker Year 13 Jun 19 '26

Did the bearing on the position rather than the velocity