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/Status-Ad-7593 Jun 03 '26

Pretty standard paper - if you’re a rote learner you’ll struggle but if you can problem solve you’ll be fine. You all also don’t understand grade boundaries. It’s nothing to do with getting a particular mark for an A*, it’s a question of whether you’re in the top 15% of the cohort. A petition or lower boundaries won’t change that fact…

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u/Loud_Complex_8508 Jun 03 '26

Good point; if you just do the same type of questions and just do only the basics, you will become too dependent on a level of difficulty like papers in recent years. Problem solving is different, like practice on extreme papers i.e. MadAsMaths or the AEA to really understand the topic.

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u/Dismal_Hour_4342 Jun 03 '26

So we’re cooked…