Mr M's Edexcel GCSE Linear 1MA0 Higher Tier Paper 2 Answers June 2013

What do you guys think 123\200 will be ?

I just asked one of the Edexcel exam board Representatives and he told me (in private) that the grade boundaries will DEFINITELY be:

197/200 for an A*
196/200 for an A
193/200 for a B
189/200 for a C
Please do not share this information elsewhere, these ARE the REAL grade boundaries.

Don't worry, you'll get an A - or maybe a B, if they are really harsh, but I doubt it!


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Yes i know, i just decided to see who will fall for this concept, since some people are not even aware of that nor do they even know estimate grade boundaries. However, i am a gentleman so i was going to eventually admit that i was a troll so people would not panic too much

yeah, alright moite

I spoke to the head if maths at my school and he said the boundaries DEFINITELY will be :

189 - A*

144 - A

140 - B

135 - C

Nice prank, but it wouldn't get past (many of) us. Maybe if you had set the boundaries to about the high 170s for an A*, high 150s for an A, high 120s for a B and high 80s for a C, you might have ignited a little dispute, and not made it too obvious, but unfortunately you chose the wrong numbers.






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Was thinking about doing so, but again if you saw my reply i said 'i did not want to frighten people who did not have any idea about grade boundary' and by me choosing such numbers they would know 100% that those numbers are incorrect, but if i chose to say that it was 170s for an A* then they would partially believe me and actually be quite frightened of the grade they might have attained.

When will we get our results ? Our teachers were saying 23rd of June

Ok, i could understand your estimation for an A* grade regarding the June 2013 paper that we have just done, but an A will NEVER be 113/200 in GCSE, unless the paper that is given to us has questions that are mainly from AS/A level syllabus hehe. I would assume again, that A grade would be around 138/200 to be safe, and at lowest 134/200.

Just to make sure, what method did everyone use for the compound interest question? I multiplyed the money with the percentage increase (think it was 5% so it became 1.05) and the years being the powers with both companies. Then I worked out the percentage to the multiplication and added the answer to the money. Whatever bank offered the higher money was the answer (it was friendly bank for my answer). Is that right? how many marks roughly?

FIGHT ME IRL

I'm just kidding, thanks for correcting me. I was only judging by what our teachers thought an A was.

You just multiplied the money by 1.05 then by 1.005. And multiply the money by 1.04 then 1.01

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will 1201 be enough for an a? if not what will a b be?

Hey, thanks for the reply. I couldn't exactly remember how the question was worded but now that you put it that way i guess the question was pretty clear. Ah well, im gutted as it was an easy question. Will I get 0 marks?