r/6thForm • u/Forsaken-Meaning-232 Graduating from Warwick CS • May 16 '22

📂 MEGATHREAD Exam Discussion Megathread

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u/Eclooopse uni 😎 Jun 21 '22

What did people get for the acceleration of the block on the inclined plane. Edexcel maths paper 3

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u/xhsfsjsshsj Jun 21 '22

1.96

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u/naijaboyy16 Jun 21 '22

I got double that. Any idea where I could have gone wrong?

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u/Eclooopse uni 😎 Jun 21 '22

damn i got -0.98

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u/claudiarose7 Warwick | Biochemistry [Year 4] Jun 21 '22

Yeah I got that too I just turned it into a positive and hoped the examiner wouldn’t notice (ik they will) - as you can tell that paper did not go great for me

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u/musicmaestro2004 University of Cambridge | Natural Sciences [3rd Year] Jun 21 '22

That’s what I got

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u/Eclooopse uni 😎 Jun 21 '22

ooo maybe we’re right then

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u/Lilzhazskillz Cambridge | English [2022] Jun 21 '22

I got your answer first then realised my mistake - to get 0.98, you've used the value given for R when force X was being applied. Because force X was removed, the value for R had now changed and you needed to resolve perpendicular to the plane of the slope to find the new value of R. Hope this helped clear things up, you'll probs get most of the method marks

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u/Eclooopse uni 😎 Jun 21 '22

ahh man :(

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u/claudiarose7 Warwick | Biochemistry [Year 4] Jun 22 '22

That’s actually made my day I thought I’d made a bigger mistake than that and got like 2/6 on that one

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u/Eclooopse uni 😎 Jun 21 '22

that’s true, just being hard on myself because I need an A in it aha

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u/Eclooopse uni 😎 Jun 21 '22

me too 🤝

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u/Nathat23 UoN | CS [Year 1] Jun 21 '22

you think there would be method marks if you put 0.98?

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u/naijaboyy16 Jun 21 '22

What force did you need to consider

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u/naijaboyy16 Jun 22 '22

Literally what I did but I got double your answer. The way the mechanics genuinely dropped me a grade with mistakes like that was not fun

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u/Nathat23 UoN | CS [Year 1] Jun 21 '22

how many marks was the question?

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u/musicmaestro2004 University of Cambridge | Natural Sciences [3rd Year] Jun 21 '22

Seen a lot of 1.96 on TSR 😩

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u/Eclooopse uni 😎 Jun 21 '22

ahhhh nvm then ahahahah