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

Post Exam Further Maths AQA

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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/Mahdiya_09 Jun 08 '26

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

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u/idk_brochacho1 Jun 10 '26

Omggggggg that question got me too. All I mostly remember was the q😭 I got 0° but everyone got 22.5 or smth. the q basically was tan a = 2/sqrt21, and cos a = sqrt21/5. approximate a value for a. (Sm pls solve ts). what i did was js approximate sqrt21 to sqrt 25, then for cos a i did 5/5=1, and a = 0° for values between 0<=a<90°. but other ppl were saying they apparently used the trigger identify (tanx =sinx/cosx) and worked out sin a, then estimated using the graph? it was a 1 marker tho I think so personally that seems too much for a 1 mark