Edexcel C3,C4 June 2013 Thread

Reply 80

DanKeitley

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Original post by Frankster

Yep! Looks good on UCAS if you've already achieved an A* in summet (again if I do well :tongue:

!) What other A levels are you doing? I'm guessing FM is one.. :wink:

Yeah definitely! As well as Maths and Further Maths I'm doing all 3 of the sciences and Extended project, so June is going to be pretty intense for me! What about you? :smile:

Reply 81

m.dot.mak

Original post by brittanna

I think C4 is probably my favourite maths module, with FP2 coming in a lose second. I enjoy all of it apart from binomial expansion and sometimes vectors.

How are you finding C4.

Lol wow! I prefer C3 tbh, just nice straightforward maths...
Identifying the methods of integration is a bit difficult

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Reply 82

usycool1

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I'm doing C3 and C4 both for the first time in June. I really want an A* :sadnod:

Reply 83

BobLoblawLawBlog

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Original post by m.dot.mak

Lol wow! I prefer C3 tbh, just nice straightforward maths...
Identifying the methods of integration is a bit difficult

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I love integration :rolleyes:

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Reply 84

Frankster

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Original post by DanKeitley

Yeah definitely! As well as Maths and Further Maths I'm doing all 3 of the sciences and Extended project, so June is going to be pretty intense for me! What about you? :smile:

Woah... lemme guess for Engineering? :tongue:

That's quite a lot of stuff you're doing! I'm only doing Maths, FM, Physics and Chemistry :smile:

(Critical thinking doesn't quite count haha)

Reply 85

kronca

Resitting this exam as well 75 UMS... going to use the bigger oxford or black a2 book this time, the green book is only good for the mixed/review questions rest is garbage. does anybody know how long it would take complete either books?

Reply 86

DanKeitley

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Original post by Frankster

Woah... lemme guess for Engineering? :tongue:

That's quite a lot of stuff you're doing! I'm only doing Maths, FM, Physics and Chemistry :smile:

(Critical thinking doesn't quite count haha)

Close, Computer Science :wink:

yeah, I think I'll have to drop something for next year! I'm guessing your school does it the same as ours in the fact that you do the entire Maths A level this year and the entire Further Maths A level next year...? What do you think of C3 and C4? Personally, I found C3 quite boring (apart from differentiation) but C4 quite cool :smile:

Reply 87

Frankster

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O.o what universities you aiming for then?

Yeah our school's like that.. It was alright this year when we had normal maths AS + A2. But next year with FP2+FP3 especially it's gonna be insane! :eek:

C3+C4 are quite good actually.. defo much better than C1 and C2. :smile:

C4 is more interesting especially Integration where you can do it in so many different ways!

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Reply 88

Better

OP

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Original post by Libby18

high B (78) in c3
retaking as I want to try for the A* (but my offer asks/what I need for what I want to do is an A)

Exact same here. C4 basically requires you know C3 like the back of your hand so hopefully we should be okay.

About to do Jan 2008 C4 in preperation for my Mock on Wednesday now

Reply 89

Better

OP

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Original post by S1L3NTPR3Y

Got 85 UMS in C3 in January (stupid exponetial question ****ed up my 90+ UMS), so resiting C3 and doing C4 for first time.
I learnt all of C4 before Christmas and I hadn't really opened the book since then, so last week just started to relearn it all :angry:

. For C4 chapters 1-5 are pretty simple; I just need to master integration and also differential equations.

I am going to work through all C4 77 Review Questions over Easter and do some of the Solomon C3/C4 papers. Then when study leave starts I am going to finish all the Solomons and move on to real Edexcel papers in the run-up to June.

Here is a pdf with all the C3 exam questions in order from June 2005 - Jan 2013. (24 hours of exam time :wink:

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That so beastly thanks mate, I will see if I can upload that to the first page!

Reply 90

XAsh

I got a B for c3 in jan, but I'm resitting to try and get an A, also doing c4 aswell. Too much work to do I dont know where to start. :frown:

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Reply 91

Libby18

Original post by Better

Exact same here. C4 basically requires you know C3 like the back of your hand so hopefully we should be okay.

About to do Jan 2008 C4 in preperation for my Mock on Wednesday now

woahhh your mock is early :O

Reply 92

Better

OP

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Original post by XAsh

I got a B for c3 in jan, but I'm resitting to try and get an A, also doing c4 aswell. Too much work to do I dont know where to start. :frown:

Don't bother spending time just reading. I spoke to alot of people and apparently my method was just so so so wrong.

So despite how hard I worked I didn't get the grade I should have.

What I am doing to ensure I get an A* is:
1. Deriving the essentials from the DATASHEET, and doing enough questions in the Book to be able to have generalizations to solve problems (which I made for C4 today, C3 to go)
2. Solomon Press Papers this Month till 15th April or so because they are harder. Ideally finish them all off for C3 and C4 taking each one seriously. (Writing down weaknesses/anything topics I get wrong)
3. Start doing Edexcel Papers until around 1st June, leaving 1 Paper Jan 12 for 5 days before each past paper.

4. Recapping my C3 C4 D1 everyday for like 15 minutes each, so I don't forget it.

Physics and Chemistry will be a whole different story, alot of consistent grinding especially for Chem as there is so much theory.......

Reply 93

nmanvi

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Doing C3 and C4 first time in june , really want the A* :biggrin:

. got 99 ums for C1 so im on my way :3 (made crazy stupid mistakes in C2 so retaking that...)
I finished the C3 syllabus really fast in like a month and a half, just doing solomon press papers a week now.
C4 is going well as well! though integration looks like mad from what ive seen...

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Reply 94

XAsh

Original post by Better

Don't bother spending time just reading. I spoke to alot of people and apparently my method was just so so so wrong.

So despite how hard I worked I didn't get the grade I should have.

What I am doing to ensure I get an A* is:
1. Deriving the essentials from the DATASHEET, and doing enough questions in the Book to be able to have generalizations to solve problems (which I made for C4 today, C3 to go)
2. Solomon Press Papers this Month till 15th April or so because they are harder. Ideally finish them all off for C3 and C4 taking each one seriously. (Writing down weaknesses/anything topics I get wrong)
3. Start doing Edexcel Papers until around 1st June, leaving 1 Paper Jan 12 for 5 days before each past paper.

4. Recapping my C3 C4 D1 everyday for like 15 minutes each, so I don't forget it.

Physics and Chemistry will be a whole different story, alot of consistent grinding especially for Chem as there is so much theory.......

That sounds good, i'll try and have a go. Thank you so much :smile:

i'm also doing chem, any tips for that?

Reply 95

kronca

1 in 4 (25.6%) people got A in the c3 exam.. how is that possible.. who are these people who got A's X_X

Reply 96

nmanvi

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Original post by kronca

1 in 4 (25.6%) people got A in the c3 exam.. how is that possible.. who are these people who got A's X_X

where did you get this statistic from? is this statistic for every student who sat the exam or just your school?

Reply 97

kronca

Original post by nmanvi

where did you get this statistic from? is this statistic for every student who sat the exam or just your school?

examiner reports, it should be everyone that sat the paper

[h="1"]Pass rate statistics:[/h][h="1"]January 2013 GCE Mathematics Examinations[/h]The percentage of candidates obtaining at least the given number of uniform marks (UMS) at the time of grading are given below (the final figures may vary slightly from these).

[h="1"]Module[/h]	80	70	60	50	40
6663 Core Mathematics C1	33.5	50.5	63.7	75.2	84.1
6664 Core Mathematics C2	39.1	58.6	73.2	82.0	88.3
6665 Core Mathematics C3	25.6	44.8	62.7	75.2	84.3
6666 Core Mathematics C4	31.2	48.0	64.1	75.5	84.6
6667 Further Pure Mathematics FP1	57.3	75.2	86.5	91.6	95.3
6677 Mechanics M1	30.9	52.4	66.3	76.7	84.0
6678 Mechanics M2	41.9	62.9	75.6	83.8	89.6
6679 Mechanics M3	42.0	60.6	73.2	80.9	85.8
6683 Statistics S1	27.1	47.5	62.0	74.3	83.9
6684 Statistics S2	37.2	59.0	74.3	84.1	89.3
6689 Decision Maths D1	27.0	46.3	63.5	76.1	84.0

Reply 98

BobLoblawLawBlog

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Original post by kronca

examiner reports, it should be everyone that sat the paper

[h="1"]Pass rate statistics:[/h][h="1"]January 2013 GCE Mathematics Examinations[/h]The percentage of candidates obtaining at least the given number of uniform marks (UMS) at the time of grading are given below (the final figures may vary slightly from these).

[h="1"]Module[/h]	80	70	60	50	40
6663 Core Mathematics C1	33.5	50.5	63.7	75.2	84.1
6664 Core Mathematics C2	39.1	58.6	73.2	82.0	88.3
6665 Core Mathematics C3	25.6	44.8	62.7	75.2	84.3
6666 Core Mathematics C4	31.2	48.0	64.1	75.5	84.6
6667 Further Pure Mathematics FP1	57.3	75.2	86.5	91.6	95.3
6677 Mechanics M1	30.9	52.4	66.3	76.7	84.0
6678 Mechanics M2	41.9	62.9	75.6	83.8	89.6
6679 Mechanics M3	42.0	60.6	73.2	80.9	85.8
6683 Statistics S1	27.1	47.5	62.0	74.3	83.9
6684 Statistics S2	37.2	59.0	74.3	84.1	89.3
6689 Decision Maths D1	27.0	46.3	63.5	76.1	84.0