AQA Maths Non Calculator Paper 26th May 2016

Ollie1999

Hey
Is everyone ready?

Does anyone have a topic list of strictly non calculator stuff that is essential to know?

Thanks

Reply 1

Sam1999__

I thought that was a pretty nasty paper tbh it could have been much worse i guess but it defo wasn't easy in my opinion

Reply 2

username2337813

I thought that was a really good paper actually :tongue:

Some of the stuff was really hard though, but all in all, not bad.

Reply 3

Ollie1999

Original post by Sam1999__

I thought that was a pretty nasty paper tbh it could have been much worse i guess but it defo wasn't easy in my opinion

Original post by hxfsxh

I thought that was a really good paper actually :tongue:

Some of the stuff was really hard though, but all in all, not bad.

Mark scheme http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4120409&p=65189425#post65189425

Help in questio

I thought it was an easy enough paper, wasnt easy but it wasnt impossibly difficult like it could have been. I know for a fact i made a few dumb mistakes though.

(Putting 265 instead of 256.5 for the first question)

Reply 6

Samzadon432

Did anyone understand the question with the triangle and you had to assume that sine 45 degrees was a surd??

Reply 7

ZacLaw

Original post by Samzadon432

Did anyone understand the question with the triangle and you had to assume that sine 45 degrees was a surd??

I had exactly no clue when it came to that

Reply 8

gordon123

Original post by Samzadon432

Did anyone understand the question with the triangle and you had to assume that sine 45 degrees was a surd??

The answer was 8

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Reply 9

katiekat1

It was alright, but got harder through the middle :frown:

Reply 10

harveytom

Original post by gordon123

The answer was 8

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how?

Reply 11

gordon123

Original post by harveytom

how?

I can't remember what the numbers were but it was because you use the area of a triangle formula so 1/2(abSinC) =12 when you had all the numbers in the brackets multiplied and stuff you had two root 1's which cancelled eachother our to remove the surd and so it was 8 but I can't remember the numbers so that's not much use hahah

Reply 12

username2337813

Original post by gordon123

I didn't get that question at all :tongue:

But good on you for getting somewhere with it xD

Reply 13

FenixZ

http://imgur.com/a/Bw6gY

Sorry for the poor quality but is is all explained

Reply 14

ansonslp

Right that question was very easy if you know how to use fractions. One of the sides was 3 root 2 and the surd was 1 over root 2. When you times them together, the two surds cancel each other giving you 3. You know the triangle area is 12cm2, so knowing the formula you would know that side c would be 8.

Reply 15

vjsl

hi does any one hv a link to the markscheme of may 2016 foundation paper plz

Reply 16

stepmaths

Original post by vjsl

hi does any one hv a link to the markscheme of may 2016 foundation paper plz

Papers from last year are not released yet as it is useful for teachers to set these papers as mock exams. To get access you will require your teacher to login to the AQA website and get the paper, I'm sure your teacher will be happy to do this for you.

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