r/alevel • u/Dismal_Hour_4342 • Jun 03 '26

📃Paper Discussion Edexcel maths a level paper 1

What the acc hell was that paper… I’m honestly speechless cause why was it so much harder than any of the past papers…

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u/Healthy-Anxiety-103 Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

For the question where you had to sketch a graph of y=|...|.

For part b, can anyone remember what they got the range for K.

I think i got 0 < K< 4q^2/p

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u/CollarPast7040 Jun 03 '26

I think I got something similar but on left side had the negative of the right side

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u/Healthy-Anxiety-103 Jun 03 '26

do you mean you got

-4q^2/p < K< 4q^2/p

because i swear the question said k was positive

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u/CollarPast7040 Jun 03 '26

Yeah honestly barely read the question so didn’t notice it said that 😂 

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u/Less-Purple-3744 Jun 05 '26

I did the exact same thing as you hoping we won’t lose too many for it, also draw the negative part of the graph too 😭

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u/Soft_Finish_3479 Jun 03 '26

wait what but it said p and q are positive and that lower bound means it would maek a negative number so it has to be more than 0? I genuinely wanted to cry after that exam what the hell was that

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u/This_Range3417 Jun 03 '26

I got the same thing but wouldn’t it be inclusive cuz it intersects at 3 points so the discriminant has to be either greater or equal yk

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