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Edexcel M1 Exam Official Thread (June 6th 2014)

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How did you find the M1 GCE Exam?

Hey guys.I am gonna start the official M1 thread right here. Please share your revision tips and important questions. :biggrin:

Useful Links

All papers + mark schemes (including jan13):
http://mathspapers.co.uk/edexcel.html

amazing website with video solutions to most questions- (seriously I'm gonna donate to this guy):
http://www.examsolutions.net/a-level-maths-papers/Edexcel/Mechanics/Mechanics-M1/M1-Papers.php

Mechanics tips:
http://www.examsolutions.net/a-level-maths/a-level-mechanics-tips.php

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Reply 1

username1208923

Exam solutions is the only site needed for maths, that guy is awesome :yy:

Reply 2

Freddy-Francis

Original post by Stoicism

Exam solutions is the only site needed for maths, that guy is awesome :yy:

ya true

Reply 3

Thevasil

Has anyone had trouble using his website lately?

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Reply 4

ByHisGrace

Original post by Thevasil

Has anyone had trouble using his website lately?

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Yh I think there is a lot of traffic because everyone is doing :work:

I dont know how else to access his video except typing in the name of the paper etc into youtube.com

Reply 5

Thevasil

Ahh well hopefully the traffic will be less now cos I still need to revise C3 C4 M1 and M2 :frown:

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Reply 6

TheAnnabelle

Original post by Freddy-Francis

Hey guys.I am gonna start the official M1 thread right here. Please share your revision tips and important questions. :biggrin:

That last link won't load? Could you possibly link the youtube link to it?

Reply 7

imyimy

i really struggle with vectors, like the questions about ships and position vectors and stuff. could anybody send me helpful links or explain what i need to know? thank you

Reply 8

Sataris

Original post by imyimy

i really struggle with vectors, like the questions about ships and position vectors and stuff. could anybody send me helpful links or explain what i need to know? thank you

Wait till you get to C4 :tongue:

^{Sorry I'm not being helpful}

Reply 9

gyshmey nbofster

There are vectors in c4

Well **** this, I'm outta here.

Reply 10

Hooosain

Im not too bothered in revising M1 since I know everything, well most things except Vectors which I plan to revise last minute :smile:

Reply 11

Sataris

Original post by gyshmey nbofster

There are vectors in c4

Well **** this, I'm outta here.

It's the trickiest part of C4 for me. Well, except for the integration, which takes up about half the paper :biggrin:

Reply 12

Freddy-Francis

Original post by TheAnnabelle

That last link won't load? Could you possibly link the youtube link to it?

Check again. I updated the links. Sorry for that

Reply 13

GunnerGuy

My only problem in M1 is those dynamic questions. Especially those last questions where one body hits the ground while the other body decelerates and you have find the distance moved by that body.

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Reply 14

gyshmey nbofster

I have a question on sketching diagrams. If we were to get marks for drawing a sketch of a diagram (For whatever reasons), but I adapted the outlined version which the questions often give you, would this mean you still get those marks for drawing onto the outlined version given for a question? I'm curious as this is what my teacher told me, but he didn't sound very convincing, neither was his answer.. I'm just curious because I don't wanna spend ages doing a complicated sketch onto the given version, and receive no marks for which there could of been marks gained, if you catch my drift.

Reply 15

GunnerGuy

Original post by gyshmey nbofster

Examiners don't give ANY mark for drawing a sketch. Mu teacher told us to draw a sketch just for personal reference and not for gaining marks!

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Reply 16

gyshmey nbofster

Even if the sketch contains found information relevant to the mark scheme? Like most of the time I will fill up my diagram with tonnes of random things that are going through my head, so I can get a better idea of what they might be asking me to do. But hey ho.