AQA A2 Mathematics MPC4 Core 4 - 9th June 2015 [Discussion & unofficial markscheme]

Does anyone have some sort of graph for past grade boundaries?

Has anyone else noticed how ridiculously low the boundaries are for this exam? You need on average only 67 for 100 UMS, and on average 60 for an A*...

Has anyone else noticed how ridiculously low the boundaries are for this exam? You need on average only 67 for 100 UMS, and on average 60 for an A*...

Yeah, you're right.. Need on average 60/75 to get an A*.. Does sort of suggest that students easily slip up on C4

Yeah, as lionelmessi19 implies, it does make me feel uneasy at how hard they're making the papers!

You can just see the level of difficulty increases as you work your way up towards the more recent papers.. My marks averaged 65ish in the older papers, and have now fallen to 55ish in the more recent ones.
I think i'd prefer an easier paper and higher boundaries.. At least it would be a test that everyone can do. It would test you upon making the fewest silly mistakes in the allocated time

That's true. It's very difficult to see how this set of exams will go. If it's anything like last year it will be a very tough paper. 59 for an A*!


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Yeah, I know.. That's mad! I've got that June 14 C4 paper for my mock after easter

Oh me too! Mines on Wednesday 22nd :/ when's yours?


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Mines about that time.. Haven't been given a date yet
Good luck with that though!
Lets hope its not as bad as this..

If it was 59 for an A* it can't be far off! I'll look out for the Jack Sparrows in my class hahahaha


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Hahahaha

Haha - joking aside which topics do you find hardest in C3 and C4?


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C3: I hate transformations, and don't really like using the chain rule to differentiate and integrate. I don't like drawing graphs either.. Everything else is alright

C4: I don't like vectors and I hate differential equations

How about you?

Oh right!

For me,

C3: Proving trig identities and sketching transformed graphs

C4: Vectors

Knowing my luck there'll be tough questions on all those topics this year!



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I don't mind proving trig identities,, but i'm with you on the others

Ah sometimes trig is nice, but they can make it impossible on other occasions!


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Yeah that's true!

Do you tend to use any resources on YouTube? Not sure if I should hunt for some. Videos do help me on most cases.


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