Edexcel M2/M3 June 6th/10th 2013

It's ridiculous though, students are unprepared and that M2 paper was basically a Solomon press.
The best advice I can give Year 12 students is to maximise your AS ums marks otherwise byebye, or do S1 and M1 together.

What do you mean "S1 and M1 together"?

My initial opinion was that it could also be below 57 but im not sure it will go so low now as i felt i just suffered under exam stress more than anything even though i feel im capable :/ but theres always hope! No denying it was a hard paper though!


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Did u try out june 2012? im sure u wud have found it a whole lot easier than this one; yes its true june 2012 had its share of "odd" questions, however they were greater in proportion in june 2013.

Surely there were more places to drop marks in this paper than last years?...right?

Obviously you need your 4cores and then you can either do Mechanics 1&2 or Statistics 1&2. But you can also do Mechanics1 and Statistics 1 together which is equivalent to doing M1&M2 or S1&S2. I've done S1 M1 M2, so as like today M2 was really hard i can fall back on my S1

Did u try out june 2012? im sure u wud have found it a whole lot easier than this one; yes its true june 2012 had its share of "odd" questions, however they were greater in proportion in june 2013.

Surely there were more places to drop marks in this paper than last years?...right?

Sure i did all the papers but i didnt auite do them in exam conditions sitting down for an hour and a half so i dont know whether or not the difficulty and exam stress would have made the paper any harder thats why im not sure about the relative boundaries - i would say that this is definitely more tricky than the majority of papers so i would expect a lower boundary than average. Personally i found jan2010 the hardest and this was harder.


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Sure i did all the papers but i didnt auite do them in exam conditions sitting down for an hour and a half so i dont know whether or not the difficulty and exam stress would have made the paper any harder thats why im not sure about the relative boundaries - i would say that this is definitely more tricky than the majority of papers so i would expect a lower boundary than average. Personally i found jan2010 the hardest and this was harder.


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Going back from january 2006 the papers get fairly easier, as they are fairly repetitive ofcourse. Iv heard alot of negative comments regarding jan 10, but i think june 12 may have clinched the spot for the hardest paper (pre 2013 that is). unless the 2003 papers were harder, because they were the only ones I hadnt done.

I feel like I would have been more prepared for this paper if I had just done all the mixed exercise and Review questions from the new Edexcel M2 textbooks( the one with the CD), as the book had some PROPERLY difficult centres of mass, collisions and statics questions..

Also I wrote 20, drew a graph and everything to prove it but chickened out and crossed it out as it was in the calculus area
Oh have pity on me and see through my scribbling out.

Do you think they actually meant to type Minimum?

It's ridiculous though, students are unprepared and that M2 paper was basically a Solomon press.
The best advice I can give Year 12 students is to maximise your AS ums marks otherwise byebye, or do S1 and M1 together.

End Conclusion: Hardest M2 Paper/Questions I've ever done.

Going back from january 2006 the papers get fairly easier, as they are fairly repetitive ofcourse. Iv heard alot of negative comments regarding jan 10, but i think june 12 may have clinched the spot for the hardest paper (pre 2013 that is). unless the 2003 papers were harder, because they were the only ones I hadnt done.

I feel like I would have been more prepared for this paper if I had just done all the mixed exercise and Review questions from the new Edexcel M2 textbooks( the one with the CD), as the book had some PROPERLY difficult centres of mass, collisions and statics questions..

For 7(b), when you find the speed of R, can you just leave the answer with e? Instead of subbing 3/4 into e?


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jus checked arseys mark scheme, worst case scenario for me is 52/75.

so long A in further maths, A in S2 has gone to waste now...

lost my spirit for fp1 on monday, dont even know if i can do well enough in fp1 to get B or A in fm.

i got 0.5 as well but i got a different angle

11.1 ? (Or something like that?)


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I can see what i initially felt was going to be a nice easy finish to exams to be invredibly challenging giving the difficty of replacement papers...ive lost motivation for fp1 too..all that m2 work went to waste...


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