Edexcel FP3 - 27th June, 2016

where did you get the 2015 paper? its not available on edexcels website yet and a google search brought up nothing

where did you get the 2015 paper? its not available on edexcels website yet and a google search brought up nothing

Google Bilal Ahmed's edexcel blog

Ergh it feels so intimidating to revise for this.

Doesn't help that in my mock next week, our paper is a joint FP2-FP3 mock

May as well forfeit

Don't be intimidated! There's some really interesting maths in FP2/3. I'd much rather do these units than something like statistics...

Don't be intimidated! There's some really interesting maths in FP2/3. I'd much rather do these units than something like statistics...

There's nothing wrong with statistics

There's nothing wrong with statistics

Oh don't get me wrong FP2/3 are my favourite pure modules ever. I especially love every topic in FP2. The problem I have is that each topic seems to have some aspects of memorization. A lot of it is understanding, yes, but there is a memory aspect which I never do well in - that is simply remembering all the techniques in my toolbox!

There's always a fair bit of memorisation, with any of the units. But if you have a good understanding of the topics then it should get easier to remember these things. There's always a logic to these concepts too, which helps.

That's true. But I guess with pure the concepts are the most abstract of any of the modules, no? As in there's new maths entirely as opposed to applied maths

I guess so. Thinking about it, when it comes to topics like reduction formulae it's not really a matter of memorising but being able to spot how to split the integral when integrating by parts. This sometimes isn't obvious, especially with recent papers. The one on June 2014's paper springs to mind here...

Ergh it feels so intimidating to revise for this.

Doesn't help that in my mock next week, our paper is a joint FP2-FP3 mock

May as well forfeit

C'mon man if I can do alright on past papers, you can do fine in your mock!!

I hope that wasn't you putting yourself down cause dude you are very talented in pure xD

Tons of work to do before June, man. I just realised that M3 is a little over 2 months away...

I take it this was a very difficult paper? Let me guess conics and reduction formulae were the worst questions...