How did you find this year&#x27;s C3 (EDEXCEL)

I guess you've seen the paper by now? Whats your A* prediction?

Reply 3

kprime2

Straight forward paper. If you had done the past papers, it was a nice paper. There was nothing on that paper that had previously not come up in past papers.

Reply 4

Think I lost 8-9 marks. 10 at worst. Hoping thats 90?

Reply 5

11234

8

not too bad but not exactly easy. Where is arsey!!!!??

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math42

I don't know what to make of it and I sat it...throughout I had the feeling it was a bit weird/ever so slightly non-standard, but I finished fairly quickly and it seemed very doable. There was a slightly challenging trig proof and I thought 1b of the first question was quite tricky; there was also a 6 mark range question and it seems that a fair few people dislike range so..

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Original post by 1 8 13 20 42

I don't know what to make of it and I sat it...throughout I had the feeling it was a bit weird/ever so slightly non-standard, but I finished fairly quickly and it seemed very doable. There was a slightly challenging trig proof and I thought 1b of the first question was quite tricky; there was also a 6 mark range question and it seems that a fair few people dislike range so..

About half the people who even attempted the last part of 9 were wrong when they said it was a decreasing function as well.

Reply 8

H0PEL3SS

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It seemed to me that some questions felt like they'd be taken from previous international papers, but it was doable, if you were well prepared. I found it fine, maybe tougher than normal, but it felt more difficult than June 2013 (I found that one easy, a lot of complaining over nothing). Regardless I don't think the boundaries will be as low as June 13, but they will be lower than normal.

Reply 9

math42

Original post by STATER

About half the people who even attempted the last part of 9 were wrong when they said it was a decreasing function as well.

I don't understand why you would say that. The question even put "negative" for "negative constant" in bold...unless the differentiation was wrong, how can you say decreasing (I got a numerator of -3k and the square denominator of course)
edit: I mean I put increasing by the way not decreasing :P

Reply 10

Jemy

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Original post by TeeEm

all my students on this paper reported back and I do not know what to make of it ...
one of them which is desperate to get A* thinks that A* will be around 65, another was almost in tears, a third one said it was an ok paper...

How was it for you?

http://strawpoll.me/4609429/r

What do you make out of this poll?

Reply 11

AJeeeee

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Original post by H0PEL3SS

It seemed to me that some questions felt like they'd be taken from previous international papers, but it was doable, if you were well prepared. I found it fine, maybe tougher than normal, but it felt more difficult than June 2013 (I found that one easy, a lot of complaining over nothing). Regardless I don't think the boundaries will be as low as June 13, but they will be lower than normal.

It wasnt bad really, just that trig proof 5 marker and some of the smaller questions lol. But grade boundaries should be a bit low, does 66 for A* sound too ambitious?

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Original post by 1 8 13 20 42

I don't understand why you would say that. The question even put "negative" for "negative constant" in bold...unless the differentiation was wrong, how can you say decreasing (I got a numerator of -3k and the square denominator of course)
edit: I mean I put increasing by the way not decreasing :P

Yh k is a negative constant so -3k is positive, and the denominator was positive, so rate of change is positive, so increasing function.

Reply 13

TeeEm

OP

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Original post by Jemy

http://strawpoll.me/4609429/r

What do you make out of this poll?

another poll ...

Reply 14

math42

Original post by AJeeeee

It wasnt bad really, just that trig proof 5 marker and some of the smaller questions lol. But grade boundaries should be a bit low, does 66 for A* sound too ambitious?

It was 66 last year and the only "difficult" thing on that was a similar 5 marker. I felt this year was similar; 66 would seem like a good estimate.

Reply 15

Jemy

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Original post by TeeEm

another poll ...

I meant your take on the given feedback on it, it has already over 1300 votes with 40% saying very hard and 30% saying hard.

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