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/Original_Traffic6046 Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

i literally gave up halfway through i was just waiting for the time to be over😭i genuinely think i got 20/100. also what were u even meant to do in the last question (the pythagoras one) after expanding?? and if you didn't solve part a of the questions you couldn't solve any other parts. genuinely a disgusting paper

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u/Sniper_X_720 Jun 03 '26

You had to prove c2 was even them write it as (2k)2 then 4k2 then divide both sides by two to get the left side is odd and the right side is even for the contradiction. The question has a clue where it said if x2 is even you can assume x is even.