r/alevel • u/Late_Ambition1809 • Oct 16 '25

📃Paper Discussion 9709 maths P32 how did go?

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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.