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Edexcel FP1 Thread - 20th May, 2016

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Reply 1100

queenoflean

dont discuss specific questions yet as some people have not taken the exam and we don't want to raise gb!

Reply 1101

Chirstos Ioannou

Can we start discussing now? Everyone should be done by now right?

Reply 1102

LukeB98

Summation proof was a bitch.

Some weird 1-2 markers in there.

Reply 1103

mohit12321

Screwed up the finding A question equated it to the real part instead of the imaginary part (which was a quadratic) :/

Reply 1104

iMacJack

That was not great

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Reply 1105

dididid

that was bloody terrible

Reply 1106

tejsanghavi

disappointed.
I didnt realise that u had to apply completing the square to the matrix question.....lost 2 marks
I couldnt prove that alpha was the root, i equated the equation to 0 and got the same but positive value (im not sure whether it is correct)??
i couldnt find a and b nonetheless i managed to create an equation using the imaginary roots and did a bit of working that led nowhere. As a result i only showed the imaginary roots on the argand diagram....lost 4 marks
For the last part in the matrix question i got k as x/5y, correct?
last part i didnt manage to get it to k+1....lost 3 marks

End result=resit

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Reply 1107

TeeEm

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4101989

Reply 1108

dididid

anybody know if and when there will be an unofficial markscheme?

.. lets hope the grade broundaries are quite low

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Reply 1109

Chirstos Ioannou

Original post by LukeB98

Summation proof was a bitch.

Some weird 1-2 markers in there.

Summation proof was alright imo. I think i got that correctly.
What i couldn't find was (b) in raphson process and 7(d) about T which maps points onto itself for a value of k or something.

Reply 1110

Sallekmo

There was a question that destroyed me, i think it was the one before the proof cas i felt like i forgot everything when i skipped two parts of it. Does anyone remember the question

Reply 1111

Anon-

**** me that was unexpected. so many questions i got stuck on, p and q for complex roots, descriptions of geometric transformations, proof of summation, coordinates of parabola

i've been getting like 98% on past papers and on this **** i must have gotten something like 70%

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Gutted. I'm such a ****ing idiot

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Reply 1114

Jelio

Right we need an unofficial mark scheme asap, just so I know what badly I did, I mean **** that was hard

Reply 1115

wr123

That was a very difficult paper compared to previous years. I completed both gold level papers yesterday with 1 or 2 small silly errors however today I think I got roughly 60/75. I am quite upset as I need to get 3 A's for UCL and I needed to do better on this paper.

Reply 1116

sarahjackson1999

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That was awful, on past papers I finished in plenty of time and always got full marks or only dropped a few. I barely finished and when I started checking I noticed a mistake that I didn't have time to correct :frown:

Reply 1117

econecon*

OMG
The last question 9b I cannot prove!! I equate them together but there was 5p cube sth...
Probably gain one mark for the method.
Also, for 9c, I forgot to equate the y coordinate to zero!! My mind was all about the x coordinate greater than zero lol.
Waiting for Arsey's answer...
Let's hope the grade boundary of this will be around 66/67 for 90...

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Reply 1118

Sallekmo

Original post by Anon-

Ive been getting 100% there was one question that basically made me forget everything ive ever learnt in FP1. I normally complete proof in 5 min but my brain was so damaged by the previous question that it took my 15 minutes