How did you find the Edexcel FP1?

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How was the FP1 for you?

very hard 24%

hard 30%

ok 27%

easy 11%

very easy8%

Total votes: 618

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How did you find this year's FP1
EDEXCEL only

This is last year's poll on FP1

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these were the actual boundaries of last year's exam

75 full UMS
68 ---> 90 UMS
62 ---> 80 UMS (A)
56 ---> 70 UMS (B)
50 ---> 60 UMS (C)

(edited 7 years ago)

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Reply 1

tejsanghavi

disappointed.I didnt realise that u had to apply completing the square to the matrix question.....lost 2 marksI couldnt prove that alpha was the root, i equated the equation to 0 and got the same but positive value (im not sure whether it is correct)...lost 2 marksi couldnt find a and b nonetheless i managed to create an equation using the imaginary roots and did a bit of working that led nowhere. As a result i only showed the imaginary roots on the argand diagram....lost 4 markslast part i didnt manage to get it to k+1....lost 3 marksEnd result=resit

Reply 2

Anon-

that was a kanker hard exam yo

Reply 3

SakuraE

It was terrible I did almost every fp1 past paper twice but this one was one another level.

Reply 4

Palette

Terrible. Did every single past paper save the internationals and I was nonetheless stupefied.

Reply 5

Sallekmo

Original post by tejsanghavi

Now im pissing myself i dont remember an argand diagram what question was this?

Reply 6

Sallekmo

Original post by SakuraE

It was terrible I did almost every fp1 past paper twice but this one was one another level.

I know i even done IAL papers

Reply 7

Jaxce

Guys what did u get for the last question

Reply 8

Gilo98

Without giving away too much (not sure when we can speak about exam?) I thought it was generally tougher that normal but more than enough standard questions to get desired grade. I would say around 7 non standard marks on the paper.

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Reply 9

HasanRaza1

Yeah done most FP1 papers and was getting good marks
Anyone else run out of time?
Dropped at least 15 marks

Reply 10

themechguy

I think that exam was a bit tougher than usual, built up from the easy questions at the start to some potentially more difficult and wordy ones at the end. Might have lost 2 marks on wordy stuff.

Another tricky one was the last part of question 9. Did anybody get 5 root 2 as their x coordinate of M?

Reply 11

tejsanghavi

Original post by Sallekmo

Now im pissing myself i dont remember an argand diagram what question was this?

the part c, to the question on finding a and b of the equation

Reply 12

Yanjin

Very Hard paper !!!
It was harder than January 2016 IAL.

What is wrong with Edexcel??

Reply 13

TrueDAN

RIDICULOUS!!! I have done awfully - not enough time.

Reply 14

math42

I am intrigued to see this paper now..

Reply 15

limadima

Original post by Anon-

that was a kanker hard exam yo

Juisteeeemss!!!

Reply 16

limadima

I dont even know what this exam was, I just.. wanted to get a B. Guess since edexcel is on a killing spree i'll be aiming for a strong D

Reply 17

Unravelling

Original post by tejsanghavi

Complete the square on the matrix question? What are you talking about?

Reply 18

'Chenko

Original post by HasanRaza1

Yeah done most FP1 papers and was getting good marks
Anyone else run out of time?
Dropped at least 15 marks

Ran out of time too

Reply 19

JamieOH

If you mean the singular A matrix then you end up with k^2=1/2 so k= +-1/√2, no completing of any squares? Atleast that's what I got. I got 12.468 or something for Newton Raphson. 2.03 for some angle.