The Edexcel AEA (26/06/12 - AM) Revision Thread

i remember getting 7pi/4 somewhere in the last question

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did you need aea for offers

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Original post by Calculator fx

did you need aea for offers

No, just did it for fun.

I had only one done practice of two past papers for it.

Reply 64

yeah me 2

, still annoying not showing your potential

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Original post by raheem94

Struggled at the sketch and the last 2 parts of it.

How did you did the last part of the logs question?

What was your answer to the 2nd part of the logs question?

The logs questions was awful. I got virtually nowhere and I proved my own answer wrong when I tried some numbers :confused:

What did you get for the vectors questions?

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Original post by tizza1394

The logs questions was awful. I got virtually nowhere and I proved my own answer wrong when I tried some numbers :confused:

What did you get for the vectors questions?

I don't remember the answers to it.

The first part of the vectors was tricky but the other 2 parts weren't much tricky.

Some memory coming back, it asked to find 'a', i think a=5 was the answer, right?

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Original post by raheem94

I don't remember the answers to it.

The first part of the vectors was tricky but the other 2 parts weren't much tricky.

Some memory coming back, it asked to find 'a', i think a=5 was the answer, right?

I remember having alpha=5? :smile:

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Original post by tizza1394

I remember having alpha=5? :smile:

Yeah it might be alpha not 'a'.

What was the answer to the last part, i think it asked for the diagonal length?

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Didn't do aswell as i hoped. Didn't know what to put for the domain on q1. Q2 was all fine. Could NOT do q3 at all lol i only got as far as summing the RHS to infinity then got lost in algebra. Think the vectors went ok, what answers did people get for them? The log question im pretty sure i got all right, then same for the next question about (a+b)^4 but i expanded it all and it was really messy so i just gave up and pretended to get there because it was a waste of time refactorising so thats probably 3 marks down. Then for the final question i believe i did the first two parts fine, then couldn't do the 2 marker, did some of the next 5 marker, than ran out of time for the last 5 marks.

I estimate i lost 10 marks on the last question, 10 marks on questions 1 and 3, then a further 3 on q5 meaning if my answers are right im on 70/100 before style/presentation/clarity marks which normally would probably just scrape a distinction but if you guys all think the boundaries will be really high then i guess i can kiss that distinction goodbye :frown:

. Ah well.

Reply 70

for the volume i got 343 and the diagonal 10, i guessed though lol

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Original post by raheem94

Yeah it might be alpha not 'a'.

What was the answer to the last part, i think it asked for the diagonal length?

I have literally no recollection of what I wrote for that xD. Can you remember your answer?

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how many marks was the log question, cos i got 0 on that loool, i'm hustling for a merit

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Original post by tizza1394

I remember having alpha=5? :smile:

I also remember having alpha=5. I got the volume of the cube to be 7^3 so 343 and then got the diagonal to be 5root3 but i wasn't sure about that.

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Original post by tizza1394

I have literally no recollection of what I wrote for that xD. Can you remember your answer?

Don't remember it correctly but off the top of my head it was may be 10.

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BTW what was up with 5 marks for the volume of the cube? I mean i just worked out the distances between all 3 vertices, and given that they were all different distances you know that the shortest one must be the side of the cube given there are only 3 different possible distances between any two vertices on a cube (surely?).

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Original post by In One Ear

I also remember having alpha=5. I got the volume of the cube to be 7^3 so 343 and then got the diagonal to be 5root3 but i wasn't sure about that.

I got 343 and I swear I had a 5rootsomething somewhere xD

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Original post by Calculator fx

how many marks was the log question, cos i got 0 on that loool, i'm hustling for a merit

I think it was 3, 5 and 6 so 14 marks in total.

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Original post by raheem94

Don't remember it correctly but off the top of my head it was may be 10.

Darn, I think I had 5root something.

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