Edexcel C2 20th May 2015 *Official Thread*

60/75 for c1 if anything i may have gotten higher but no less than 60.
30/75 for c2.

That's all I can say. This exam is the worst exam I have ever done in my life. Nothing can compare to it, I do not understand how people can call this easy. I've done past c2 papers and I am sure if not absolutely certain I was a secure B, aiming for an A. Now, well I can't even get a C overall let alone an A. I have never felt this bad after an exam before. I can't even. I'll be retaking maths next year that's for sure.

someone set up a petition to lower the grade boundaries:

https://www.change.org/p/edexcel-they-need-to-reduce-the-grade-boundary-or-give-us-the-chance-to-do-the-exam-again?utm_campaign=supporter_message&utm_medium=email&utm_source=supporter_message

My grade boundaries theory:There was an increase in the number of resits for the C2 exam this year, due to the (in my opinion) harder C2 paper last year (June 2014). Because June 2014 had the lowest grade boundary for an A and the lowest boundary for Full UMS, it shows that it was a hard paper. Therefore the people that are resitting, the majority of them will have done C3 and C4 and are resitting C2 to boost UMS. In general (not speaking for everyone) C2 is almost basic compared to C3 and C4, considering most (if not all) of the topics in C2 are covered again in C3 and C4.Therefore I predict that the grade boundary for an A will not be abnormal - most likely 62/63 for 80UMS. My point is that people resitting will pull the grade boundaries up.

My grade boundaries theory:There was an increase in the number of resits for the C2 exam this year, due to the (in my opinion) harder C2 paper last year (June 2014). Because June 2014 had the lowest grade boundary for an A and the lowest boundary for Full UMS, it shows that it was a hard paper. Therefore the people that are resitting, the majority of them will have done C3 and C4 and are resitting C2 to boost UMS. In general (not speaking for everyone) C2 is almost basic compared to C3 and C4, considering most (if not all) of the topics in C2 are covered again in C3 and C4.Therefore I predict that the grade boundary for an A will not be abnormal - most likely 62/63 for 80UMS. My point is that people resitting will pull the grade boundaries up.

53 in c2 and 63 in c1. What do I need in s1 for a solid A

Our school is doing D1 as the third module, is anyone else doing this?

100% percent agree! I did c2 last year and also thought that paper was waaay harder... but then as you say i've been studying for c3/c4 this year so i thought that the content was just way simpler today. the problem is if this keeps happening more and more people will be retaking each year, making it unfair for year 12s

thanks. However i believe year 12's will hopefully become more smarter in there revision technique. I'm an A2 student aswell, I knew where i went wrong at AS, and worked towards improving that. Also I think most students tend to create this 'false impression' of how good they really are at maths. Papers are getting harder as years go on, but doing a June 2011 paper for example and getting full marks isn't truly representative as to how good you are at the more challenging concepts of the syllabus.I didn't bother doing any past papers before 2012 in preparation for today's exam, as all of them are easier, instead I focused on solomon papers under timed conditions, international and (r) papers and the stretch questions from the textbook. This is how I revised and according to the unofficial ms i got full marks

Not until after results day. People will try and guess, but Arsey has said that's it's pretty useless because there is no way of knowing.

Sorry the reply is after the exam but it says r>1 therefore it cant be 1-r^n

In fairness my predictions are usually not too bad. I think I was only more than 2ums out in one module last summer. Boundaries usually appear a little earlier than the results.


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