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Rumoured C1 Maths paper?

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this paper should surely be easier as last year was hard

The opposite, often after a year group found a paper difficult, exam boards use the same types of questions and keep it hard... to make it easier to create grade boundaries

edit: because of this, it might be helpful to gauge the difficulty of the questions on last years paper (if you say it was hard) and practise at that difficulty.

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Reply 21

wajeeh1364

I think differentiation might come up...

Reply 22

Zacken

Original post by LewisClothier

This makes zero sense because the papers are written before the previous year group has sat the papers.

Reply 23

iMacJack

Original post by asharma10

this paper should surely be easier as last year was hard

I have to disagree - last years C1, I thought, was really not too bad!

Reply 24

iMacJack

Original post by Zacken

This makes zero sense because the papers are written before the previous year group has sat the papers.

So the 2016 paper was written last year? Or am I being confused

Reply 25

Imperion

Original post by Zacken

The entire paper will be maths. I can guarantee it.

PRSOM

Reply 26

Dysprosium

There is going to be that one person who completes the paper in 20m and is going to sit back and look cool.

Reply 27

drinktheoceans

Original post by iMacJack

So the 2016 paper was written last year? Or am I being confused

They write papers 18 months before it is sat by students?

Reply 28

vannson

If you can't answer a question with maths, you're probably sitting a wrong paper

Reply 29

Namita Gurung

Edexcel always has a pattern to its questions
E.g. there's always differentiation and integration in the beginning with the distribution graph at the end

Reply 30

Jonsmith98

Original post by Dysprosium

There is going to be that one person who completes the paper in 20m and is going to sit back and look cool.

I did the 2015 paper in 40... :/ So im kinda close to the "puts shades on and lights up a blunt" level of chill

Reply 31

LewisClothier

Original post by Zacken

This makes zero sense because the papers are written before the previous year group has sat the papers.

Hmmm... I've been misinformed clearly, oh well, thanks for clarifying! :biggrin:

Reply 32

neil20143

I think there'll be a find the area of a triangle on the graph question as well as that's not been on for a while. I'd say the exam will be on par with recent exams (maybe just a tad easier than last year's as a lot of the hard parts of the syllabus came up then).

Did completing the square pop up last year? Because if not, I think that'll be on.

Reply 33

richpanda

Last year's paper was one of the easiest ever made. I've done some 08/09 papers that were harder.

I just hope they don't do any triangle questions. Got 74/75 on my last 2 papers, just need to stop doing silly mistakes.

Reply 34

Cherry82

Lol with AS/A2 level Maths, it's virtually impossible to predict questions. GCSE maths yes but A level Maths no. Each year many of us try however exam boards always seem to have surprises with new 'tricks' up their sleeves. Best thing to do is just to keep on practising. The more questions you do, the better.

Reply 35

imran_

Exam boars have to test every part of the specfication within a three year period ( i think, i remember reading this somewhere)
however this is for AQA not sure if this applies to Edexcel

Reply 36

the bear

bear™ has consulted the runes....

Reply 37

Cherry82

Original post by iMacJack

So the 2016 paper was written last year? Or am I being confused

I was told it was two years not one.
This may be irrelevant as it's English Literature but I'm sure it still applies as it's still A levels. But I remember our English teacher telling us about her brief experience observing AQA's exam committee whose in charge of writing/drafting papers. From what I remember she said something along the lines 'as we were talking, he had the 2014 papers in his hand which I was shocked because it was 2012 but already the 2014 papers were out...made and later locked in the storage room. I thought Oh my God, poor students'.
Back at the time, Lol our whole class went nuts shouting miss, how could you? Why didn't you look in that paper since it was the paper our year is going to sit. She just laughed :tongue:

Reply 38

neil20143

Original post by imran_

Exam boars have to test every part of the specfication within a three year period ( i think, i remember reading this somewhere)
however this is for AQA not sure if this applies to Edexcel