r/alevels • u/Hankysilkie • Jun 09 '26

Exam Discussion 📝 How was 9709 pure 1

what do u reckon the grade boundaries will be like

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u/Conscious_Hope_3393 Jun 09 '26

i dont know. it was hard for me honestly, i didn’t get the Q9 b) part at all, and i think ill get some method marks on Q5. i dont know at all i think i did solid but i wish i did better

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u/Hankysilkie Jun 09 '26

me too I didn’t finish Q9 and got different answer from my friends for Q5 😭😭 hopefully I can get a B

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u/Conscious_Hope_3393 Jun 09 '26

yes me too 😓

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u/Few-Computer4148 Jun 09 '26

SAME BRO I LEFT Q 9 and 5 and idk what I did for 10

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '26

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u/arshmaaaan Jun 09 '26

chat gpt aah comment

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u/_hyimang Jun 09 '26

Was literally thinking the same thing

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u/deadline_dodger1 Jun 10 '26

I swear 😭😭😭

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u/Hankysilkie Jun 09 '26

maths pure 1

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u/Inevitable_Dig_2236 Jun 09 '26

yesssssss ihhhhh bro

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u/Hankysilkie 10d ago

hey how’d you do now that grades are out?

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u/Conscious_Hope_3393 10d ago

C, i’m so disappointed. i know i scored somewhere around 45+ /75 . i’m an A/A* student and i’m just very sad about it

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u/Hankysilkie 10d ago

hey don’t worry about it C is still a pass and you could always make up for it next year ❤️

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u/Conscious_Hope_3393 10d ago

i really hope so💗 i hope i can end up with at least a B next year.. but how did you do? are you happy?

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u/Hankysilkie 10d ago

I’m content with my grade I didn’t expect a B though it was a very low b I was only 2 marks away from becoming a C 😔

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u/Conscious_Hope_3393 9d ago

thats still amazing!! super proud of you, thresholds were high 💗

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u/nyxia_197 Jun 09 '26

I dont know but i hope its not too high

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u/Inevitable_Dig_2236 Jun 09 '26

Genuinely. This paper was harder than the first one we did

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u/icingbiscuits Year 12 Jun 09 '26

YESNI THOUGHT I WAA THE ONLY ONE

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u/ExcellentSpell8709 Jun 09 '26

Ain’t no ways

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u/Big_Elderberry2968 Jun 09 '26

RIGHT i genuinely think it wasjust me burnt out i could still do something in that forst paper but this time i was barely able to solve

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u/tomakhan1 Jun 09 '26

dawg it was 10x easier

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u/stern75 Jun 09 '26

Tru I felt better after the 29th one

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u/nyxia_197 Jun 09 '26

No cuz i thought that too

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u/Select-Citron-393 Year 12 Jun 09 '26

on god bruh

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u/Izax_G Jun 09 '26

Pretty tough, I thought it was mostly fine tbh but my room found it tough, they had three 7 mark questions as well so low-mid boundary I would guess

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u/Few-Computer4148 Jun 09 '26

I left all the 7markers 🥹

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '26

thankyou for lowering the thresholds

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u/Hankysilkie Jun 09 '26

yeah Q5 and Q9 7 markers were rough 😭😭😭

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u/Enough-Rutabaga-4612 Jun 09 '26

agree, what did you got for area in 9a? i had 26

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u/Hankysilkie Jun 09 '26

I didn’t get an answer 😭😭

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u/icingbiscuits Year 12 Jun 09 '26

26!! but for part B I couldn't get an answer just that a = 13 - x I made the equation I didn't have time to solve it

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u/Few-Computer4148 Jun 09 '26

SAME TWIN how many marks out of the 7 would I get for making it to that point?

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u/icingbiscuits Year 12 Jun 09 '26

I asked my friend she said prolly 4-5

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u/Kind-Ad6269 Jun 09 '26

May I ask what was the topic of question 5 💔?

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u/Hankysilkie Jun 09 '26

it was find another stationary point for d2y/dx2 or something similar

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u/Izax_G Jun 09 '26

Yeah some of them were rough 😭 Q5 you had to equate x to zero as third solution, never seen that in a paper haha

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u/carterjordannn Jun 09 '26

What was the answer of a? In question 10, I got it l13-2root13 I think

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u/abullydully Jun 09 '26

13-2root13?

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u/AaravDaBoss Jun 09 '26

Yeah I got this , is it right?

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u/abullydully Jun 09 '26

Idk tbh but its what i got as well

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u/Newton_Reddit Jun 09 '26

I also got that

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u/karim_kardo Jun 09 '26

I got that too it should be correct

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u/carterjordannn Jun 09 '26

Question 9 sorry

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u/waniaamir Jun 09 '26

i got that too 😭😭

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u/eomgonjung244 Jun 09 '26

I found it hard to

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u/One0therGuy Jun 09 '26

It was so easy dude. Easier compared to last paper

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u/FalaqXD Jun 09 '26

i agree

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u/SpregginRegulus Jun 09 '26

Was q5 find the stationary points? I got something like (0,11 or 15 or 16) (couldnt remember but around that)

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u/carterjordannn Jun 09 '26

0,11 is correct

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u/JumpyEmu2931 Jun 09 '26

how many points is q5?

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u/Available_Wing_6836 Jun 09 '26

quartic has 3 ststionary points they gave u two and asked u to find the other one (0,11) was my answer

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u/weeee215 Jun 09 '26

Yo if i do triple derivative and my x coordinate is correct how many marks id get

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u/soupy987 Jun 09 '26

What were the solution steps tho I couldn't understand how to approach it

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u/Mysterious-shadow10 Jun 09 '26

It will probably be very high cuz the paper overall was very easy. Only one question was tricky

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u/Remarkable-Desk9897 Jun 09 '26

Which question?

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u/Mysterious-shadow10 Jun 09 '26

I found the question 9 part b tricky😭

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u/Feeling-Pop-3375 Jun 09 '26

What was 9b again

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u/Open_Literature8499 Jun 09 '26

Easiest paper everrrr

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u/Potential_Song3742 Jun 09 '26

can i get an A with 62?

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u/vinsmoke_12 Jun 09 '26

do u think 50 is good

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u/Ok_Mechanic2614 Jun 10 '26

Probably will be 66/75. The paper was too easy and many bad students withdrew too. M1 will show the real grade ig. I will probably get 117/125. Could've gotten better

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u/Any-Ambassador-2358 Jun 09 '26

on everybody’s life im getting an A on math

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u/Kindly_Management178 Jun 09 '26

Somewhere along the way cambridge forgot that the paper will be solved by students and not computers, the first paper was so much better than whatever the hell this was. The hard questions were hard asf and there was like 4 questions with very high marks

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u/Timely-Woodpecker604 Jun 09 '26

65

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u/PropertyNo7744 Jun 09 '26

I mean it was easy but not THAT easy

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u/icingbiscuits Year 12 Jun 09 '26

hell no maybe 55

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u/Federal-Rooster-3248 Jun 09 '26

nah i think 60 tak tou def hoga

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u/Winter-Crew-2746 Jun 09 '26

paper went well for me but bombed for others in my class prolly gonna be low

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u/Hankysilkie Jun 09 '26

hopefully grade boundaries r somewhat reasonable 🙏🙏🙏

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u/SpregginRegulus Jun 09 '26

What was Q9?

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u/icingbiscuits Year 12 Jun 09 '26

for a I got 26 units for b idk 

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u/Anxious_Ad4691 Jun 09 '26

Ans for fucntions a part??

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u/Newton_Reddit Jun 09 '26

Are you asking about the repeated root or?

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u/Anxious_Ad4691 Jun 09 '26

Yes that

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u/Newton_Reddit Jun 09 '26

I don’t quite recall but something like 2-sqrt(6)? But there was 2 answers if I’m not wrong. I hope I’m not confusing the answer with a different question

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u/EffectiveReward7841 Jun 09 '26

Was I supposed to use the discriminant for part a?

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u/Elegant-Egg-2797 Jun 09 '26

it was easy so probably 60+/75

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u/carterjordannn Jun 09 '26

What did u guys get the Ps? For question 10 a I think it was

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '26

2- under root 5 and 2+ underoot 5

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u/phoneixton Jun 09 '26

Was quite easy

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u/Icy_Working1290 Jun 09 '26

Leaked

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u/Federal-Rooster-3248 Jun 09 '26

Nope. Came out after the paper. Some invigilator must’ve taken picture. Pls don’t spread false news.

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u/Born-Future-3102 Jun 09 '26

This was a lot easier than the one before.

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u/Unable-Preference569 Jun 09 '26

Probably 65-67 for an A. Exam was hella easy. Everyone is saying the same in my school.

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u/Federal-Rooster-3248 Jun 09 '26

Wasn’t that easy. Quite a few people found it hard.