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

I honestly don't think I dropped any, and if I did it was a stupid mistake in the first question lol, but still it took me some time to complete when usually I finish the papers in 45 minutes or so.

First question was 1 real number and two complex conjugate pair. Fair play, you could still end up with 100ums loll

I think either notation would've confused people. If they used a cross instead some people would mistake it for the cross product.

Yeah I hope so, but when I say stupid I mean I probably simplified a fraction wrong, or added wrong, that seems to be something I do under pressure -.-
How did you find it?

Edexcel is run by some strongly opinionated old farts.
they use half of a square root symbol
No modern book or other board does that

the correct notation if I understand well should have been
|AB| |AD|

Was the old edexcel examining board part of University of London board by any chance? (talking like early 70's)

I think if you were not fairly familiar with the expansion of (n+1)^2 , then you may not have seen immediately what the factorisation would look like.

The last question was all in terms of p and q which made things really messy.

I'm guessing 69.

That's reeeeeally high - isn't it? Are further maths grade boundaries always higher than C1, C2 et al?

Apparently it was "unfair" that the edexcel used the dot notation as some students "mistakenly" thought that it meant the dot product.

I was simply pointing out that it technically is a dot product.

I don't see what the problem is, FP1 is an AS module therefore it doesn't require dot/cross product - surely people know that?

Edexcel say C3 and C4 are necessary to learn FP1, so dot/cross product is assumed knowledge for FP1.

Edexcel say C3 and C4 are necessary to learn FP1, so dot/cross product is assumed knowledge for FP1.

Not necessarily! People do FP1 alongside C1/C2

Nope, there are very few things required, and they can easily be learnt within the FP1 course.
I'm pretty sure the only things it requires are parametric equations (which is taught in the book), implicit differentiation and the chain rule. Other than that, everything is explained.

I know that they do but edexcel say that it should be taught after C3 and C4.



They're explained because they're the things that come up most, but you're supposed to know the whole thing. For example, there was a question that I did that required knowledge from C3, which was tan addition formula and is listed under C3 in the formula book. The diagram here shows what I'm talking about.

Can you link me to the question or a similar one, because I've never come across a question that I don't have the knowledge for in FP1, and I'm starting C3 and C4 next year...

No.