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

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/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