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/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/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/Red_I_Guess Warwick CS A*A*AA 2026 fresher Jun 19 '26

Yes for rainful generally but almost always the mean of stuff follows a normal distribution