Edexcel FP3 June 2015 - Official Thread

What do you think you got in FP2?

Posted from TSR Mobile

They haven;t asked any challenging vector questions yet... which in a way is scary as they have the potential to be challenging...

Actually, is it just me or do all the units in FP3 have the potential to have super hard questions but nothing too hard has been asked yet.. seems like a bomb ticking haha

They haven;t asked any challenging vector questions yet... which in a way is scary as they have the potential to be challenging...

Actually, is it just me or do all the units in FP3 have the potential to have super hard questions but nothing too hard has been asked yet.. seems like a bomb ticking haha

81 UMS in FP2 would get you an A*

Yes I agree. FP3 dives into proper maths and they can make it very very hard. I hope they do as I do well in very hard exams as i make numerical errors only.


Posted from TSR Mobile

have you always been really good at math? or do you combine skill with lots of practice?

Not sure tbh. I was not that good at maths until Yr 12 then I realised and started to understand stuff and concepts. Some concepts come very quickly to me and understand the whole topic clearly within a day when learning like where solutions to Second order DE's come from and complex numbers whereas other things don't come as clearly. Everything is coupled with hard work. I have also 'developed' ability to problem solve better from problem solving.


Posted from TSR Mobile

That is interesting. Would you like to become an academic or go into some sort of industry? Have you given it any thought?

Academic. But people say I won't by the time I reach the end of my degree so I don't know tbh hehe.


Posted from TSR Mobile

Yes quite a few people say that but i cant see myself doing anything else. Academic purely for research purposes or do you like teaching as well?

Is anyone planning on memorising the equations for the tangents/normals to hyperbolae/ellipses?

Na


Posted from TSR Mobile

I found this forgotten file (I have not used it since 2010).
I have only answers and no solutions
I have no idea how hard these questions are but I can tell you they are not in order of difficulty.

hopefully it will be of some use

Hello! I do not understand why the n distinct eigenvectors for a matrix A are orthogonal. Can you please explain ?

their dot product is zero

I understand what orthogonal means. What is don't get is the reason behind the eigenvectors being orthogonal. the 'intuition' behind this, if you will.