Edexcel GCSE Mathematics A Higher Paper 2016 Unofficial Markscheme

Guys, for the estimating the solutions one, q9 I think, I completed the square and solved it: that should be acceptable right because I am right technically?

Hi guys, I have managed to get 81 will I be in a chance to get an A*, people are saying I need to get 166, so another at least 85 marks. But what was the grade boundaries for 2015, it had apparently low grade boundaries like 158 according to last year pupils. Is that correct?

Sounds same as me. I got 6 questions wrong.

Two I didn't have time to answer at all (the teachers question and inverse proportion... so 7 marks gone there.)
I also dropped 2 marks on the graph question by giving x values for y= -4 instead of +4.

I screwed up the varnish question by getting the area wrong (didn't take 2m off the width of the room) and carried that mistake through, but did everything else OK from that point. Hoping I get 2 of the 5 marks there.
I misread the midpoint question and calculated the midpoint of M and P. I've marked myself as zero there but hoping (clutch, grasp) that by demostrating I can calculate the midpoint I may get 1 mark.
For the last surds question I boobed by working out with root 3 over 2 instead of root 3 over 3. That was with rushing with 5 mins left. So I got a complete wrong answer. But by getting the area of the large triangle correct I should get 1 mark out of the three.

For the vectors question I mentioned S was 3/4 way along both lines but I didn't actually say it was the point of intersection. I think 1 mark out of the 2?

Allowing another 3 or 4 marks dropped across the rest of the paper (where I got all correct answers) I reckon 81/100 too. I was really annoyed with myself for some of these errors which were just silly. Got to get 85+ now in calculator I think for an A* chance.

Probably. For the simultaneous equation I wrote both x and y solutions instead of just x solutions. How many marks would i lose?

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Yeah I would think so

Guys, for the estimating the solutions one, q9 I think, I completed the square and solved it: that should be acceptable right because I am right technically?

Hey Rajiv, you will get the marks but the questions did ask to estimate it graphically, but since it's an estimate answers will be a range including the exact value, so yeah that would work!

Guys, for the estimating the solutions one, q9 I think, I completed the square and solved it: that should be acceptable right because I am right technically?

Hey, I also did the same thing mentioning both x and y, for both of our sake, my teachers believe I may get the full marks. If the examiners don't accept it, you would only lose 1 mark. So don't worry.

Hey, I also did the same thing mentioning both x and y, for both of our sake, my teachers believe I may get the full marks. If the examiners don't accept it, you would only lose 1 mark. So don't worry.

Hey, for the simultaneous equation question you know how there were two equations and for the first equation, in the question above you had to find the values for it. Well I put those x values as well as the other two from what I worked out when I drew the line of the second equation. Do you think I will get 0?

You should get full marks for that. Question asks for x values but you gave both x and y. That's extra info and you can't be penalised for that. I'm sure I gave x and y also.

There's lots of recourses out there, but if you're aiming for A* you should really know everything by now that could come up in the exam, imo. It just sounds like you need to just go through the paper slower, re-read over the questions etc..

http://www.mathsgenie.co.uk/grade2.html

http://www.mrbartonmaths.com/gcsetakeaway.htm

http://www.m4ths.com/gcse-videos-higherfoundation.html

http://www.examsolutions.net/maths-revision/syllabuses/GCSE/period-1/Higher/module.php

Probably best just doing past papers now though.

What happens if you get an answer all worked out... but then don't write it in the answer box in the bottom right? I did that with the 100-25PI answer and only noticed it as the invigilator was collecting in the papers. So I couldn't write it in as the time was gone. God knows why I didn't write it in... don't think I felt it was correct but it was.

would i get 3 marks
i did 300/800 times by 16 to get 60

Anyone know the question for which the answers are 2 4/5 and 4/5 (Higher-tier paper)?