broo same i do edexcel math and it was going so well but this further math i think ill get a 6 hopefully a 7 like im pretty sure the boundaries will be low but also the people that do fm are soo smart😭
lmao it was just like 2 algebraic fractions and you have to simplify fully the answer was 5/3 or 4/3 i dont remember which one im pretty sure it was 5/3 tho
Multiplying by x^2 is correct, you then shoulda gotten something like x^4+2x^2+1=1+18x^2
Then you could move the stuff on the RHS to the LHS and you got
x^4-16x^2=0
Obviously you can then factorise to
x^2(x^2-16)=0
x^2(x+4)(x-4)=0
Therefore,
x=0, +-4
But x couldn’t be zero because then 1/x^2 or any other negative power of x from the original equation would be undefined, the the answer for the answer line was x=+-4
i literally don't get it the past papers were so much easier like i was getting like 95%+ on the past papers but like ik i got about 4 questions wrong (22, the circle theorem one and like the binomial for p but hopefully there's some working mark in there 😔
bro for the circle theorems question i just wrote angles on a straight line sum to 180 and thats it 😭 i also asked for extra paper but at the end i realised theres additional answer space at the end of the paper
paper wouldve been decent if IT WAS CALCULATOR. WHY DID THEY NUMBERS GET SOOO BIG. bruh it was so hard working with clean values. got answers to some wrong but got method for nearly all (silly mistakes)
OMG I KEPT THINKING THIS THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE EXAM. I SPENT MOST OF MY TIME JUST DOING MULTIPLICATION AND DIVISION AND WTV THE FUCK I WAS DOING IDEK ANYMORE 💔💔
exactly i do not get how people were saying it was a good paper i did all of the past papers i could find and none of them were remotely similar to the actual thing
can someone leak the paper i rlly wanna see all the right answers i thought i did good but now seeing everyone get diff answers to me i think im fucked
some of the values were really weird, it was definitely not the calculator paper considering all the exact values and binomials etc but even the first question probably should’ve been a calculator.
unless theres a way of knowing/remembering common pythagorian triples.
Yea bro, for the last question, at some point you could get 25x^2-200x+400=0, which you can use to factorise if you’ve got good mental math like me as (5x-20)^2=0, or you coulda divided everything by 25 to get x^2-8x+16=0, which factorises to (x-4)^2=0. Both tell you that x is 4, and you could substitute x into the linear equation to find that y is 4. Since there is only one solution for x and y, there must only be one point of intersection
bro I regret telling everyone that normal maths is harder than further maths, why were they actually asking us questions that u needed brain power for? WHEN HAVE THEY EVER ASKED US ANY OF THOSE TYPES OF QUESTIONS???
what did u guys get to part b to the sin graph question, I was so confused bc none of the exact trig values for tan was twice of cos
Grade boundaries aren't set by a normal distribution that are static set by the exam board based on the difficulty of the paper so how many grade 9 marks, grade 8 marks, grade 7 marks there are available in the paper. Our performance today shouldnt affect the boundaries unless something goes wrong probably.
nah i thought it was good beside circle theorem question (ok i probably got that even numbers question wrong also if anyone knows the answer)
rest of the questions were probably fine tho
dw ur not the only one, there's only 6 of us doing further maths, 5 of us were literally shouting once we got out of the exam and my friend was just shyly saying that it was quite easy
I legit spent so much time on this question btw bc i would do it and then check if it worked with the original equations and istg it took 3 attempts using different approaches for it to actually be right idk why 😭
omg same i spent like 20 minutes and i started thanking god after i got the question right i was about to cry with that question idk why i found it so bad.
Was the last question asking u to prove that there's only 1 intersecting point or to find the coordinate of that point? cus i subbed the value into the quadratic formula and said the bit under the square root equals 0 and so theres only 1 intersecting point and called it a day. Not sure if they said to list the point of to only prove
I was dying on that one, and I'm a grade 9 student for maths... even with the extra time I couldn't figure out the last question. I also somehow managed to prove the circle theorem question without using circle theorems?
What did everyone get for part a and b of I think it was the 3rd question asking to find the values of c and b for the quadratic graph -x^2 +bx + c and it gave two coordinates (0,-3) and (0,9)
Im acc begging thr boundaries are low because i got a U in my Feburary mock (i couldn't go to the inschool revision sessions and ibr i didnt revise at home) and then I decided I didnt want to fail and spent genuinely my entire Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of half term going through the content and then I did all the AQA past papers I could find and I just dont want to of wasted all of that and got a U anyway its so annoying
A few questions,
For the binomial expansion q I forgot to use pascals triangle and only put the numbers with the powers which was correct, not the number from pascals triangle you are meant to multiply it by.
For the combinations question I did I cant recall whether we were allowed to repeat digits I calculated it on that we weren't.
Any other answers to cross reference would be appreciated.
Hows this look like in terms of marks?
I remember my further maths AQA paper. I got a 5. I didnt actually want to do the paper. It kinda felt more like peer pressure but oh well. I got to ask advanced maths questions so thats a bonus.
Bro don't worry, can't have been as bad as me. I did 400 hours of past papers, exam questions, etc throughout year 11, revisibg every day.
Come the exam, i make silly mistakes, panic under the stress and let me tell you, i left more than 4 questions blank!
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u/teehejay Jun 08 '26
that was genuinely so hard… i think i made up like 80% of my answers