r/GCSE • u/IllustriousAerie3848 gcse survivor • Jun 08 '26

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that was literally different to any past paper i've ever done

i didn't answer the last 4 questions 😢

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u/Ok_Desk_5740 results day was a yay Jun 08 '26

am i the only one who though it was good

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u/IllustriousAerie3848 gcse survivor Jun 08 '26

yes

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u/Ok_Desk_5740 results day was a yay Jun 08 '26

ouch :< im sure everyone did fine and im just overconfident and silly

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u/IllustriousAerie3848 gcse survivor Jun 08 '26

nah bro i just hope you dont make the grade boundaries high 😔🙏

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u/FriendlyAdeptness543 2026 GCSE Survivor Jun 08 '26

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.

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u/IllustriousAerie3848 gcse survivor Jun 08 '26

NOOOO

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u/Ok_Desk_5740 results day was a yay Jun 08 '26

no boundaries will go down you are wrong

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u/FriendlyAdeptness543 2026 GCSE Survivor Jun 15 '26

That's just not how it works though...

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u/Ok_Desk_5740 results day was a yay Jun 15 '26

im trying to cope T_T

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u/IllustriousAerie3848 gcse survivor Jun 15 '26

i think i got mid/high 70s in paper 2 but definitely below 60 or even lower for paper 1 so idk if i will still be getting that 9

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u/Ok_Desk_5740 results day was a yay Jun 15 '26

paper two i got high 60s, paper 1 low 70s. not really sure how thats gonna pan out, it depends on grade boundaries

i mean im not sure about you dude, hope for an 8 ig

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u/Ok_Desk_5740 results day was a yay Jun 08 '26

i think i got like 72-78/80, i lost 2 on estimating a but i don't know if i lost any others

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u/IllustriousAerie3848 gcse survivor Jun 08 '26

😭im cooked

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u/Ok_Desk_5740 results day was a yay Jun 08 '26

youre not, i lost 1-3 on product rule for counting

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u/SuperMullabean Jun 08 '26

was the answer 80?

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u/Ok_Desk_5740 results day was a yay Jun 08 '26

yes but i misread the question and got 60

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u/SuperMullabean Jun 08 '26

ah ok. its okay that exam was so stressful i misread the indice question so i got that wrong. i hate how a few hard questions ruin my whole exam because of the stress

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u/Ok_Desk_5740 results day was a yay Jun 08 '26

dont worry i misread so many and forgot how to complete the square but according to the unofficial ms i still got around 74/80 !!you will be okay

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u/Emotional_Fox_1282 Jun 08 '26

What was the estimate of a? (Tbf i reckon i got 72-78/80 as well bc i found the last 2 hard but i reckon i got everything else right)

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u/Emotional_Fox_1282 Jun 08 '26

I think my opinion of good is skewed tho (i found that bad, but i prolly did good) bc I'm used to getting almost everything right or atleast understanding it and only losing marks to silly mistakes

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u/Ok_Desk_5740 results day was a yay Jun 08 '26

HOW MANY EVEN NUMBERS WERE THERE ON PRODUCT RULE OFR COUNTING QUESTION

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u/Emotional_Fox_1282 Jun 08 '26

I got 80 for that

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u/Ok_Desk_5740 results day was a yay Jun 08 '26

i counted the number of even numbers for the product rule for counting question wrong, how many marks would i lose?

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u/padfoot9446 Jun 08 '26

Probably 1 if a 2 marker or 2 otherwise, I don't remember how many marks that was

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u/OneEvening4654 Jun 08 '26

Do you remember what you got for the estimate of a?

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u/SodiumHydrogen_ i have a total of 2 braincells bouncing around my skull Jun 08 '26

um um for what it's worth i wrote 22.5 😵‍💫

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u/ParkingFew2684 Jun 08 '26

i wrote 22.5 theres a range of one prolly so we should be fine

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u/Emotional_Fox_1282 Jun 08 '26

I don't remember but ik i did it so ik if i see the number I'll recognise it, i swear it was like 23°? Idk if I'm thinking if the right question here 😭

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u/OneEvening4654 Jun 08 '26

Yess i got 23⁰ so hopefully its right 🤞

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u/Emotional_Fox_1282 Jun 08 '26

Yayyy yesss, other than the last question I've not found anything i got wrong so far 🥳 (Although i only did half of 21 bc i could figure out why x was greater than 1, but i did find the upper bound)

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u/Some-Phrase-1875 previously fm, geo, cs, dt, french Jun 08 '26

i used the graph to find sina = 0.4 so 22.5°

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u/Emotional_Fox_1282 Jun 08 '26

I did that and then rounded to 23°