How did you find this year's C2 (EDEXCEL)

It was much harder than c1 imo. I spent forever on some questions so I didn't have time to check my work. There were only 2 questions which I couldn't do (proving the cost and finding A+B) I got like -96 and 48 or something for A and B but I don't think its right as I couldn't factorize.

I got that answer too and then couldnt factorise so there must be something up

Reply 21

jakelong1001

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Original post by TeeEm

Wow!
people are voting hard/very hard

I did not expect this for a C2

How come??

Reply 22

Medicjug

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Hey it wasn't too bad but then again I'm a retake student. I screwed up the last question and took the square root of 25 instead of the cube root and so lost about 2/3 mark there apart from that Alhamdulilah it was good :smile:

Reply 23

sadych

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I managed to factorise, take out a factor of 3 I think

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Reply 24

TeeEm

OP

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Original post by jakelong1001

How come??

C2 tends to be mild
(last 12 papers in a row have been very easy)

Reply 25

Jaadmaan

I think it was -48 then you could factorise (as a quadratic then taking out a constant then the diference of two squares)

Reply 26

thehollowcrown

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Original post by BenGeorge

It was much harder than c1 imo. I spent forever on some questions so I didn't have time to check my work. There were only 2 questions which I couldn't do (proving the cost and finding A+B) I got like -96 and 48 or something for A and B but I don't think its right as I couldn't factorize.

I got that!

Reply 27

lappong99

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I reckon it is not too bad but very tricky...

Reply 28

winstar

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May I know would this vote affect the grade boundaries?

Reply 29

AScarecrowsWit

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Feeling excited for the results :smile:

Reply 30

Mwo

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Hardest paper I have ever sat through

Reply 31

infinitytheory

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I'm in year 13 and did this exam as a retake, and I found last year's one much easier. I don't know how it was so hard seeing as i'm getting A/Bs in C3 and C4 >.> praying for low grade boundaries :cry2:

Reply 32

ollie.cracknell

What were edexcel thinking, they must be crack whores

Reply 33

username987675

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Made one really dumb mistake on the question asking to solve for cos in terms of k, but other than that I found it okay. The circle questions didn't seem as bad this year either. I was hard but I think last year was probable worse. Hopefully my mark went up anyway.

Reply 34

jakelong1001

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Original post by winstar

May I know would this vote affect the grade boundaries?

Lol! If only! Nah it depends on everyones results rather than their opinions

Reply 35

mis786

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Original post by Mwo

I got that answer too and then couldnt factorise so there must be something up

It was a difference of two squares!!
You divided 3x^2-48 by 3 to get x^2-16

That's x+4 x-4

Reply 36

Mwo

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Original post by mis786

It was a difference of two squares!!
You divided 3x^2-48 by 3 to get x^2-16

That's x+4 x-4

ah right

heres hoping i get some marks for working out -48 and -96

Reply 37

edothero

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The A-Level Mathematicians on Twitter seem to agree with this poll. Weird, need to see this paper.

In the meantime, I will be preparing myself for a horror C3/C4.

Reply 38

clarkey500

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I thought the paper was slightly harder than the ones I did before (so I voted OK).
But I think I did quite well, probably around the 72 mark. With Q8 (the one with putting Cosx in terms of k) the one where I probably dropped marks. :smile:

Reply 39

mis786

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Original post by Mwo

ah right

heres hoping i get some marks for working out -48 and -96