C2 May 2012 Edexcel - Post Exam Thread - Paper and Solutions in the FIRST POST
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Re: C2 May 2012 Edexcel - Post Exam Thread - Paper and Solutions in the FIRST POSTaccording to me it was a good paper(Original post by bong)
Boundaries must be high for this one
, but still don't want boundaries to be high
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Re: C2 May 2012 Edexcel - Post Exam Thread - Paper and Solutions in the FIRST POST
Hoping for 77 UMS so I don't have to retake any other units. No horrible questions from my end. Looking at around 85%+ but God knows what % that will end up as because to be honest I figured that the grade boundaries would be insanely high as soon as I saw the last question...
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Re: C2 May 2012 Edexcel - Post Exam Thread - Paper and Solutions in the FIRST POST57 1/6 or something like that(Original post by Phoebe307)
what did people get for the area under the curve or whatever it was? -
Re: C2 May 2012 Edexcel - Post Exam Thread - Paper and Solutions in the FIRST POSTyaay i got that =)(Original post by MathMad)
did anyone get the first term on the geometric series equalling to 15, the common ratio being 0.6, and the sum to infinity being 37.5? i got something like that. -
Re: C2 May 2012 Edexcel - Post Exam Thread - Paper and Solutions in the FIRST POSTthanks for putting up the answers. For the trig question, I made a silly mistake and got cos2x=-1/5 rather than +1/5. I continued to work out the values using the -1/5 though, at an estimation how many marks do you think i'd lose?(Original post by Arsey)
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Re: C2 May 2012 Edexcel - Post Exam Thread - Paper and Solutions in the FIRST POSTHi Arsey, cheers for posting a solution.(Original post by Arsey)
C2 May 2012
Overall I think this was a very easy paper.
Q1 Binomial Expansion
Standard and no tricky b)
Q2 Logs
Standard, very easy
Q3 Circles
I expected a rearranging into circle form, the rest of the question was very easy, part d) was a joke
Q4 Factor Theorem
Very easy
Q5 Area under a graph by integration
Slightly harder than normal as trapeZia often cause problems
Q6 Trig
I thought this was pretty easy but I understand it has caused quite a few problems
Q7 Trapezium rule
Joke
Q8 Trig
Pretty standard, lots of frameworking.
Q9 Geometric series
I hope you learnt the proof.... rest of the question was straight forward.
I think the boundaries will be really high
Last few June boundaries were 62, 62, 53, 63, 59, 67 for 80ums
I will guess at
100ums - 75
90ums - 70
80ums - 65
70ums - 57
60ums - 50
50ums - 43
40ums - 36
This thread will be locked at somepoint and then unlocked at midnight following the Core 2 examination. I will upload the paper and my solutions to this post.
I will do my best to answer questions about the paper but please try to read the thread first so that I am not answering the same questions lots of times.Here are some links to previous D1 threads, they are worth a read and you will see what the common errors were...
C2 Jan 2012 - http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/show....php?t=1892666
C2 June 2011 - http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/show....php?t=1619114
The second link has loads of past papers, mark schemes, model solutions etc
Good luck.
For 8)c) would it be alright leaving x as the exact answer (ie the cube root of 30 over pi)?
, but still don't want boundaries to be high