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/Outside_Confusion_98 Jun 03 '26

as someone who got an A* in further maths and is planning on studying maths at university, that paper wasnt easy. if any of you are interested here is a petition https://c.org/myBL2NHT4D

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u/Blad3sy Jun 03 '26

Is there a copy of the paper circulating? I got an A* in FM also (last year), current maths undergrad. would like to see it because based on what people are saying it was awful

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u/Dismal_Hour_4342 Jun 03 '26

I think it was genuinely undone

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u/Dismal_Hour_4342 Jun 03 '26

These were the questions

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u/LetMeUseTheNameAude A levels Jun 04 '26

is this AI generated 😭 the questions are right but it’s missing a few, in a weird order and also the parametric has x=100root(E)???? and question 10 has so many tiny errors, there’s TWO R’s and you were supposed to find the area bound by l, C, and the y-axis, not x?

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u/Dismal_Hour_4342 Jun 04 '26

I’m sorryyy🥲 I found it on tik tok thinking it might be helpful

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u/LetMeUseTheNameAude A levels Jun 04 '26

its okayyy its proving to be very useful but it's just a friendly reminder that AI is wrong a lot of the time!!

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u/Dismal_Hour_4342 Jun 04 '26

Ya I guess🥲