Maths AQA GCSE 2011- UNIT 3

rer

How did everyone find it?
I thought it was so so so hard. :frown:

Reply 1

Farseer

Original post by drewb

We're not allowed to discuss it until 4:30 am tomorrow.

AQA exams aren't affected, it's only edexcel exams you can't talk about

Reply 2

Muppet Science

just to confirm we're talking about the same exam, was that the one with the trapzeium question as the first one? if so then yeah i found it really hard too, most of my friends found it alright but i found it really hard :frown:

I'm pretty sure I got at least a B and maybe scraped an A but I really don't know and if the calculator paper is anything like that was then I might well be re-sitting :'(

Reply 3

Prebbs

I went through the marks at the end and being harsh on my self i gave 71/100. I'll be happy with that! :smile:

Reply 4

rer

Yeah thats the one. I thought the whole last few pages were impossible and each one was worth like 5 marks :frown:

what do you think the grade bounderies will be?

Reply 5

username611005

Original post by Prebbs

I went through the marks at the end and being harsh on my self i gave 71/100. I'll be happy with that! :smile:

If you know you dropped those marks why the **** did you not spend the time redoing it instead of marking your own exam?

:confused:

****ing idiot.

Reply 6

Muppet Science

yeah im hoping the grade boundaries are going to be low but I'm not sure they will be. My friends (who are ridiculously good at maths) that I talked to said they found it easy, but then again I'm not too shabby at maths and I found that quite evil.
It might be because last year the grade boundaries were really high (89 a* i think) so they might have tried to be extra hard this year? Not sure but it is possible so I'm guessing here, but maybe slightly lower than usual grade boundaries, say a 58 for an A or something like that - which would mean I might have just scraped an A :biggrin:

Reply 7

Prebbs

Original post by beaverkeish

If you know you dropped those marks why the **** did you not spend the time redoing it instead of marking your own exam?

:confused:

****ing idiot.

Hmm, because unlike most of the people on this forum i'm not great at maths. I didn't understand some of the questions in the exam and some of the questions I feel I may have dropped marks due to poor wording If I have no idea how to do I question, I guessed to the best of my knowledge, and I didn't count these questions in the 71 marks I DID count.

Thanks for the insult.

Reply 8

rer

Dont worry! Swear i go less than 72 one anyway i know i practically got lost all of the two pages which was about 25 marks in itself. fml

Reply 9

Muppet Science

likewise rer i think i may have scraped some of the A* marks but i have no idea how I did overall really. I know I got at least a B but I don't know if I picked up method marks on other questions so may bump up to an A*.
Either way the calculator paper will be my decider, if that goes as badly then I'm resitting :/

Reply 10

rer

haha me to! whens the resit?!

Reply 11

PJRobinson

Original post by Muppet Science

I'm exactly the same but I know I made a lot of mistakes on the last few questions (hope the grade boundaries are low!)

Reply 12

Muppet Science

Original post by PJRobinson

I'm exactly the same but I know I made a lot of mistakes on the last few questions (hope the grade boundaries are low!)

yeah i think the grade boundaries will be lower than usual but i think a* grade boundary may be higher as some of my mates (who are on for a*) said they found it relatively easy. But I'm not too shabby so I think A will be like 60 or so and a* like 83 maybe?
That's only really based on my mates' experience and my own experience of the exam though so I could be miles off

Reply 13

Saif95

How did I find it? Absoloutely disgusting! I am so sad and depressed...why did they have to make it so hard this year? There goes my chances of an A* :angry:

I just have to put trust in God that I get atleast an A and not a B.

Reply 14

Muppet Science

Original post by Saif95

How did I find it? Absoloutely disgusting! I am so sad and depressed...why did they have to make it so hard this year? There goes my chances of an A* :angry:

I just have to put trust in God that I get atleast an A and not a B.

that sounds pretty damn similar lol but if you think about I've now heard quite a few people saying it was hard this year so maybe the grade boundaries will be relativly low - makes sense as last year's exam grade boundaries were pretty high as it was again relatively easy

Reply 15

Muppet Science

what did people think of the calculator? I found it much easier than the non-calculator but ive always found the calculator paper easier. Think it might come out to an A overall so Im quite happy with that :biggrin:

Reply 16

xbubblegumx

Sorry to but in but does anybody know when the maths gcse results come out? I just need to know!!!! Thanks :smile:

Reply 17

Muppet Science

Original post by xbubblegumx

Sorry to but in but does anybody know when the maths gcse results come out? I just need to know!!!! Thanks :smile:

I assume with the rest of our results. Mine are 25th August :smile:

Reply 18

xbubblegumx

Original post by Muppet Science

I assume with the rest of our results. Mine are 25th August :smile:

Ok Thanks for the reply! :-) I just didn't know because I did a course so have results for that already and was re doing maths! I just want to know!!!!

Reply 19

t-swiper

Original post by xbubblegumx

Ok Thanks for the reply! :-) I just didn't know because I did a course so have results for that already and was re doing maths! I just want to know!!!!