C1 Edexcel C1 13 January 2012 - how did you find it?

Phew...I took it to my teacher and she was like 'Its easy' then tried to work through it and even she got confused, she asked if it was like a 7 mark question and we were like 'No only 3 marks' and she was like :O

was that the one where you had to prove the normal?

you just told us the 3 co ords.

You had to differentiate the equation and put in the x co-ordinate that would find you the gradient then the negative reciprocal of that would be the gradient of the normal and they y co-ordinate was 0 anyway...

I still don't understand how it's possible, I wonder if anyone else here knows...

I thought that for a C1 exam it was quite challenging compared to past papers. Wasn't too bad though.

What did everybody get on the one where there was the graph and on the last part you had to find the area of the triange? My answer seemed stupid so I think I went wrong somewhere

I feel so thick now since you guys are saying it's easy.

Really thought that it would be harder than that to be honest as I was getting in the 80's for past papers just through silly mistakes. Ironed out all but one of my mistakes I think during the last 10 mins. On the surd question I multiplied the two threes together and got three...

Also it's infuriating to see how easy it was to work out the area of the triangle, I was using some pretty messy surds but got 52/3 in the end.

It was not easy.
Remember the students who are still up gone midnight are good students often scoring high marks because they care about success (and rightly so).
There will be many tucked up in bed or in a nightclub who may have found it hard too.

urgh i left it as 104/6 i guess i'd lose 1 mark then

It was not easy.
Remember the students who are still up gone midnight are good students often scoring high marks because they care about success (and rightly so).
There will be many tucked up in bed or in a nightclub who may have found it hard too.