Students react after GCSE Maths Paper 3 on 11 June 2025

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New York state of mind

Yep, it’s really true…GCSE Maths is done and done.

It seemed like the exam boards had saved up some of the worst for last, and Edexcel veered off into holiday planning at one point, but with paper 3 out of the way it’s all over for maths.

Scroll on down for some of the top exam reactions, or hit those links for our exam chat and unofficial markschemes.

GCSE Maths exam chat on The Student Room

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GCSE Maths: out. So are we celebrating in the Big Apple or the Big Smoke?

@iluvchrist1e was it London or New york guys💁‍♀️💁‍♀️ #mathspaper3 #gcse ♬ Englishman In New York - Sting

Goodbyes are never easy, and some of those closing questions really weren't helping…

Some of this just wasn't adding up...

But the end of GCSE Maths? What a moment

What people are saying about GCSE Maths Paper 3 on The Student Room

That was chill. Normally when I do maths papers there are certain questions that I star to come back to if I think they look hard but I basically didn't do that at all in this paper! Grade boundaries are definitely going to be high ahhh

Edexcel GCSE Maths Paper 3 (Higher)

Heinz_beanz08!

this is so stupid but for the exchanging question i did all the right working out + answer BUT i wrote london was more expensive than new york (as it was) and did the london>new york. however the question was ‘whats the better value of money?’. will i still get all the marks???

Edexcel GCSE Maths Paper 3 (Higher)

studysehri

I think I messed up the other plane question (speed-time graph), writing 8.33mph instead of 500mph. i think i accidentally calculated miles per minute and fooled myself into thinking it was miles per hour.

AQA GCSE Maths Paper 3 (Higher)

Cameron.V
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