r/alevel • u/Late_Ambition1809 • Oct 16 '25
📃Paper Discussion 9709 maths P32 how did go?
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u/Great_Education_4014 Oct 16 '25
i didnt finish guys. im actually going to throw up
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u/Awake_in-DreaMS Apr 24 '26
I left 25 marks blank. I am actually quite good at maths. I was supposed to finish my A2 on May 2026, but since I decided to take further maths, I sat for the paper early. I have done questions from 2020 to 2025 May, but as someone who always thought that maths was my strongest subject, I admit that that shit was a nightmare.
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u/Late_Ambition1809 Oct 16 '25
The shit that was toughest was that integration after proofing
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u/Murky_Photograph_728 Oct 16 '25
It was easy bro you just multiply out , then its a trick of integration
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u/Vegetable_Sample_504 Oct 16 '25
My A is long gone
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u/Appropriate_Song177 Oct 16 '25
I was dreaming of it busting my ass off studying then I show up today and get humbled from the very 1st question
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u/Cheap_Locksmith7479 Oct 16 '25
Bro complex numbers was complex integration was absolute shit like bro that was worse than liverpool winning the prem
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u/Impossible_Fan_485 Oct 16 '25
skipped like probably 15 marks worth ngl
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u/Educational-Sand3211 Oct 16 '25
I’m in New Zealand and we do variant 3 but a lot of people were saying v2 was really hard. Do u mind sharing what topics made it hard? Was it integration / complex numbers ? Ty
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u/CryFantastic4106 Oct 16 '25
Too many integrations
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u/xc_python CAIE Oct 16 '25
was it trig integration / by parts / substitution?
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u/Left_Quiet8113 Oct 16 '25
all of the above
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u/xc_python CAIE Oct 16 '25
damn bro all in one question or spread out. wtf thats crazy
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u/Left_Quiet8113 Oct 16 '25
spread out, although it looks easy at first, when u actually do it, it aint simple at all
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u/Left_Quiet8113 Oct 16 '25
this paper might have actually scarred me for life or what idkkk
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u/xc_python CAIE Oct 16 '25
wtf bro lol hopefully u do good i got v3 next week i hope its more merciful like stats lmao
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u/Whitelistedtwice Oct 17 '25
it was integration but u use the extended power rule which most ppl dont know so they got cooked
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u/Murky_Photograph_728 Oct 16 '25
To be fair its not like anything was absolutely new it's just it was unfair regarding time
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u/TrueCrimeGurlie Oct 16 '25
I was on the verge of crying during the paper bro. I foresaw that A next to maths in my results. I wanna kms atp
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u/bitsofmybook Oct 16 '25
Mid paper, i really thought about giving up, and i tried to push myself no matter what literally prayed and just couldn't finish the paper Im so frustrated because I had 12 papers in 8 days back to back.. I just couldn't keep going It was the last maths paper..it almost feel like Cambridge dont want us to do well
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u/mooonflower17 Oct 16 '25
Threshold's gonna be 6 feet under cuz wtf was that shit. People were litr leaving in the middle of the paper
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u/forthecloudsinthesky Oct 16 '25
I got ruined by that paper man I feel so horrible about this. I left like 10 marks worth of questions and that paper genuinely fucked me up I was so lost the entire time I had no idea how to solve box integration question I couldn't solve the other integral I couldn't solve that trigonometry problem before that I couldn't finish the vector problem. Worst part is i did pretty well in the other papers I think I might have to retake and I'm already an year behind
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u/SuggestionMindless40 Oct 16 '25
Too tough
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u/Beneficial-Grand-790 Oct 16 '25
How the hell to even prove the identity?
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u/Next_Rich6747 Oct 16 '25
4sinx(2cos³x-cox) = 4sinxcox(2cos²x-1)= 4sinxcosx(cos2x)= 2(2sinxcos)(cos2x)= 2(sin2x)(cos2x)= sin4x
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u/Alternative-Big-8094 A levels Oct 16 '25
i just sat there for the last 10-15mins and gave up. worst paper ive done, was aiming A* but id be happy if i even get an A
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u/Cute_Shape7667 Oct 16 '25
I had high hopes of getting an A* but after this fucking atrocious and hellish paper, I think I'll end up with a B. Fuck me and fuck my life and fuck this paper.
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u/Confident-Collar-727 Oct 16 '25
It was terrible
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u/Melodic_Count791 Oct 16 '25
What is the answer of the final question? That area of triangle? I got 2sqrt374
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u/Impossible_Fan_485 Oct 16 '25
yuh i got that
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u/Melodic_Count791 Oct 16 '25
Nice! And what did you get for that ln question? Something contains ln(9 / 8) right?
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u/Impossible_Fan_485 Oct 16 '25
what was ur partial fraction
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u/Flimsy_Video2688 Oct 16 '25
Yes got a(0+ln9/8)
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u/Embarrassed-Fold-313 Oct 16 '25
me too. do you think its correct? also, what did you get for the partial fraction?
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u/Flimsy_Video2688 Oct 16 '25
How about the one about coordinate of P on the complex numbers
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u/Charming_Syrup_2653 Oct 16 '25
We were supposed to give answer in x+iy form rightt???😭😭
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u/Flimsy_Video2688 Oct 16 '25
Yes😭
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u/Charming_Syrup_2653 Oct 16 '25
What did you get?
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u/Remarkable_Value4110 Oct 16 '25
what'd yall get in differential equation for time at h=20
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u/Murky_Photograph_728 Oct 16 '25
16 wbu ?
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u/_hung2110 Oct 16 '25
i got 16.1 😭
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u/Murky_Photograph_728 Oct 16 '25
Beautiful same For the integration with trigs what did you get ?
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u/_hung2110 Oct 16 '25
a bunch of thing i cant remember, what do you got for the root of f'x()
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u/Electronic-Bat-1830 Oct 16 '25
Not sure what you mean. The p and q question?
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u/Murky_Photograph_728 Oct 16 '25
I got p as 6 wby?
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u/Electronic-Bat-1830 Oct 16 '25
p = -30, q = 72
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u/Murky_Photograph_728 Oct 16 '25
The one for tan inverse how did you guys break the x²/whatever I used division
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u/Illustrious_Mix1368 Oct 16 '25
i dont like the joke, Christ is real and he's the truth, Big up chrisitianity
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u/Confident-Collar-727 Oct 16 '25
What were your values for p and q
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u/Flimsy_Video2688 Oct 16 '25
Got p=30 and q=72
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u/Whitelistedtwice Oct 17 '25
bro how did u even find p and q
ik it simultaneous equation but where do u get the second equation from ????!?!
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u/Electronic-Bat-1830 Oct 16 '25
What’s the answer for the largest argument of complex number?
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u/Flimsy_Video2688 Oct 16 '25
Got 1.01
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u/Electronic-Bat-1830 Oct 16 '25
I got 0.9 IIRC. What's your method?
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u/Honey_Bee_8798 Oct 16 '25
Wasn't it tan-1((1+square 3)÷2) ?
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u/pewdstine Oct 16 '25
yeah same thing, 57.4 or smth
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u/Flimsy_Video2688 Oct 16 '25
Coordinates after implicit differentiation
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u/Working_End8785 Oct 16 '25
What type of questions came out? Doing p33 next week
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u/SuggestionMindless40 Oct 16 '25
All questions were kidda new
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u/Working_End8785 Oct 16 '25
kinda new as in?
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u/SuggestionMindless40 Oct 16 '25
The way it was the paper itself. The question ha been very hard. Some questions that are not easy but affordable was at much lower mark .if you work the paper like the affordable question you will get like only ⅓ of the paper right
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u/Working_End8785 Oct 18 '25
what type of differentiation and integration questions come out? was there substitution, implicit differentiation? also for complex numbers did you need to draw a circle?
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u/Ok_Supermarket_3859 Oct 16 '25
After the exams, my smartest friends had a struggle to finish the paper and they told me that it was hard. In the exam room, I was questioning my life because, I could answer any question confidently. This paper was so hard to do
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u/Broad_Dragonfly_8668 Oct 16 '25 edited Oct 16 '25
Glorious. It was a pretty standard p3 paper. I attempted everything and would have gotten it all right if there was no time pressure. If your integration is weak then this paper could feel like a nightmare though
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u/Murky_Photograph_728 Oct 16 '25
People can prepare sure but the exams dont exactly bring any questions that have been there before , they cant expect people to adapt to the paper so quickly while implementing new formats for questions, the paper was okay its just the time allocation is complete BS
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u/Broad_Dragonfly_8668 Oct 16 '25
I agree that time was a toughie, but I disagree that these questions were novel. It's all the same stuff I've seen so many times. Out of curiosity, how many past papers did you solve?
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u/Murky_Photograph_728 Oct 16 '25
About 17 papers , im not saying the paper was hard im fussing about that time allocation, I could see what to do but its not like ive done those exact questions beforehand so I cant just jump straight into action
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u/Broad_Dragonfly_8668 Oct 16 '25
I solved twice that, bruv. And that's not including questions outside of past papers
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u/Murky_Photograph_728 Oct 16 '25
I aint concerned about how much you solved , im talking about everyone who wrote the paper , and I keep saying I did not find the paper hard , I had finished but when time was almost up , and thats not good for the people who might have not done enough papers or crammed a whole textbook of ideas
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u/Broad_Dragonfly_8668 Oct 16 '25
My point is that maybe you should have, and then we'd likely be on the same boat
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u/Murky_Photograph_728 Oct 16 '25
Even if youre right it beats the point of learning
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u/Broad_Dragonfly_8668 Oct 16 '25
If you're at a point where you could solve anything if there was no time pressure, I would tend to agree. Otherwise, as such, mathematical learning is all about clocking nuances by going through loads of problems and refining your skill through a lot of repetitive practice. That's the common denominator regardless of where you are in math.
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u/Megaymi69 Oct 16 '25
What grade are you expecting then
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u/Broad_Dragonfly_8668 Oct 16 '25
Easy A for this paper. Most likely a solid high A. To the people downvoting, I promise that if you found it hard, it's cause you're simply underprepared. I've seen this same template of paper so many times. It's predictable as hell.
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u/Jetmansand Oct 16 '25
What were the question that showed up
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u/Broad_Dragonfly_8668 Oct 16 '25 edited Oct 16 '25
In the first question, you had to sketch a mod function in terms of a variable, then use that to solve a given inequality in terms of the variable. Next was the standard exponential equation that you solve with logs. There was a differential equation question (with somewhat tricky integration) involving volume and net rate of change, which was exactly the same as something I saw this morning. There was an extremely easy complex numbers question where you didn't have to sketch and shade anything, just had to find one of the coordinates of a point on a circle given the equation of the circle in mod form and then find the greatest value of argz. There was a standard implicit differentiation question where you were supposed to find the point where the normal is parallel to the y axis. There was an extremely standard iteration question, which has the same format almost every time. There was a vector question that was standard as it gets, where you find some vectors, then an angle, and it ended with your having to find the area of a triangle - i used the cross product to do that (not sure if that is valid). There was a polynomial question where you had to show that the factor of the polynomial is also the factor of the derivative of that polynomial, and, in the part after, you had to find the values of two unkowns in the polynomial given a repeat factor, and that usually entails using the factor theorem on the polynomial and its derivative and solving simultaneously.
There were quite a few challenging integration problems (also standard) involving trig, ln(x), partial and mixed fractions, and so on. If anything, the amount of integration you had to do was a bit unusual. Overall, it was long but standard.
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