Edexcel FP1 28th January - Discuss!

I'm feeling pretty confident :P Working through the review questions in the book that we have seems to be going quite well, and they include a lot of questions from the previous syllabus' exams, so theyre great The last one of all was fun, I posted it on another related thread, so I'll just paste my post:

"No problems so far, actually looking forward to it! Just time that is a nuisance, what with some induction questions and the sum of r^3 proofs taking pages to write out. The last question of my books review questions was rather challenging and very satisfying to complete, so if anyone wants to try it, I challenge you! It is: Enjoy!"

But then again, I was totally ready in my mind to 100% c1 and yet I made some horribly silly mistakes, such as selecting the wrong part of the curve in the inequalities question, and only factorising (4x^3 - x) to x(4x^2 -1) as opposed to x(2x-1)(2x+1)!

Does anyone know where any unofficial mark scheme for this will be put up?

I'm looking forward to this exam as well. I've done that question; it's difficult to do if you use the textbook method (subtracting f(K)) but pretty easy if you use the other method (which is to factorise f(k) from f(k+1).

Pretty confident Just finished the specimen paper and the mock paper in the textbook which weren't that hard, so hopefully it should be good as long as it is similar to past papers.

Pretty confident Just finished the specimen paper and the mock paper in the textbook which weren't that hard, so hopefully it should be good as long as it is similar to past papers.

Going by my S2 and M2 experiences already... do not expect the papers this round to be rehashes of the standard old papers.

It is: Enjoy!"

Hey guys, quick questions about something in the formula booklet: it gives you the matrix for a reflection in the line y=(tanθ)x, so where can I find questions where this knowledge is relevant? I've never seen this before .

Its likely to go up in the Maths Exams board, and the person responsible is likely to be Arsey, and the time would be some time on the 29th (Tuesday).

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I'm only really worried about proof by induction. I hate that stuff so much. Its just knowing when to factorise out or which equalities to be comparing that floors me every time. Everything else is trivial!

Now that was fun.



I expect some nasty induction as the "hard" question on FP1 now as it is usually parabola/hyperbolas. They're mixing things up on other papers and I think induction is the only other part they can make sufficiently tricky.

Then again, I could still be surprised.

Could you show your working please?

Also, when they say to show the points on an argand diagram, do we have to put down the coordinates, or draw axis?