How did you find this year's FP1 (EDEXCEL)

I found it very tricky, I have managed to get 100% in some of the FP1 past papers before but in this exam I could not do 8b or 8c for the life of me. I think that may be my hopes of an A at further maths down the drain

You want hard FP2 and FP3 to be harder?

If only they let me write these papers ...
If only ...
Just imagine...

Maybe the boundaries will be lower

I found it very tricky, I have managed to get 100% in one of the FP1 past papers before but in this exam I could not do 8b or 8c for the life of me. I think that may be my hopes of an A at further maths down the drain

haha evil!
I've seen your papers for core 3 and 4 and they are night mares.
Just curious to know are you some sort of maths professor or just a normal maths teacher? And how do you think of the questions? I mean surely you would need some sort of team behind you to check each question is valid etc.

I really hope so, I pray its not like that paper which had the A boundary at 69/75

I have experience at every level

University lecturing
School teaching
Setting Exams

Unfortunately not great at any of these ...


Team?
insulting...
I have been in this discipline for almost 30 years

from the responses it sounds like A around 60ish

Not necessarily, that could still be an A. Even if it isn't, you can make up for your result with your other further maths modules. Never give up

from the responses it sounds like A around 60ish

Really!!!

Any student that doesn't understand that extremely basic notation by the time they sit FP1 does not deserve an A. Or a B, or even a C..

when will the model answers be put up?

I see. So are you still teaching or what?

I got 70/75. What UMS do you reckon that would be?

Well I'd be happy with that if that is the case, I may have a chance.

Yeah, this paper was a lot easier than last year's paper. Tbh, I think that Jan '12 is harder than this one and that was 72/75 for 90 UMS... FP2 and FP3 better be harder than this.

Disagree there. There was absolutely nothing that was remotely tricky on the last year's paper.

hard to tell because I have not seen the paper.

pure from the comments I would hazard a guess as around 90%

I understand that they're Further Maths students so they SHOULD know but it's unfair on Edexcel to assume they know. A friend of my thought it may have something to do with the dot product of the two, which makes no sense. They could have just written "Show SR^2 = SP x SQ" in my opinion. It was the last question on the paper and all it required was multiplying out, simplifying and factorising.

could you predict the boundaries once you have a look at the paper after Arsey posts it?
I'm personally predicting 62 for an A. But heyho I'm just an 18 year old student.