Edexcel FP1 Thread - 20th May, 2016

Reply 1420

shuu00

14

I'm an A2 student and I stg I found this harder than C3 past papers.

I feel sorry for the AS ppl

Reply 1421

Krollo

17

Hopefully 75 for me, but I can see why people were annoyed.

I don't think the self-inverse is in the spec, and if it is it hadn't come up for years... it was just about reasonable to infer what it meant from the context, but I know a lot of good students who didn't.

Question 8a was more algebraically involved than is typical; ditto for the last two parts of question 9. Other than the last few questions I think the paper was generally reasonable though, and even on the harder questions there were gift marks to be had.

On the whole a step up from last year, but I fear not as big a step up as general consensus would suggest... similarly grade boundaries will probably go down a bit, but maybe not that much. An A in the high fifties is possible, but I wouldn't like to cast much judgment yet.

Reply 1422

LLk1

1

Original post by Princepieman

Newtom-Raphson

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Ah yes ofcourse, I got it

Reply 1423

beta_tester

2

predicted boundaries:

100 UMS - 74
90 UMS - 69
80 UMS - 65
70 UMS - 58

Reply 1424

LLk1

1

Original post by Krollo

Hopefully 75 for me, but I can see why people were annoyed.

I don't think the self-inverse is in the spec, and if it is it hadn't come up for years... it was just about reasonable to infer what it meant from the context, but I know a lot of good students who didn't.

Question 8a was more algebraically involved than is typical; ditto for the last two parts of question 9. Other than the last few questions I think the paper was generally reasonable though, and even on the harder questions there were gift marks to be had.

On the whole a step up from last year, but I fear not as big a step up as general consensus would suggest... similarly grade boundaries will probably go down a bit, but maybe not that much. An A in the high fifties is possible, but I wouldn't like to cast much judgment yet.

For self-inverse I just multiplied it by itself to get the identity matrix, is this a valid answer?

Reply 1425

celecia01

1

Original post by Person18

Parabola

Oh right, I found that one pretty much standard difficulty

Reply 1426

chrismcf

Original post by LLk1

What was the question about for 12.468?

Newton Raphson I think

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Reply 1427

LukeB98

4

Even still, I reckon you'd get the mark for saying sqrt(5). It's not a ****ing English paper analysing a comma.

Reply 1428

Yua

14

fp1 stands for **** me in the ass please 1

Reply 1429

LewisClothier

6

Original post by dididid

exact same thing happened to me i also managed to get the first induction but i only managed to do half of the 2nd induction as i wasn't thinking straight :frown:

yep. just about got both inductions, there was one step missing in my proof for the first one which would explain why i would minus the 2k + 3, hopefully they either don't notice or they assume i just realised and wrote it down

Reply 1430

KatieB1608

What does everyone think the grade boundaries will be? high or low?

Reply 1431

TheRandomGenius

11

65 for an A? That's 86% - absolutely no chance.

Original post by beta_tester

predicted boundaries:

100 UMS - 74
90 UMS - 69
80 UMS - 65
70 UMS - 58

Reply 1432

Person18

4

Original post by beta_tester

predicted boundaries:

100 UMS - 74
90 UMS - 69
80 UMS - 65
70 UMS - 58

65 for an A! You having a laugh

Reply 1433

beta_tester

2

Original post by TheRandomGenius

65 for an A? That's 86% - absolutely no chance.

it was a very easy paper though, and it was 69 for an A one year

Reply 1434

Yua

14

Original post by beta_tester

predicted boundaries:

100 UMS - 74
90 UMS - 69
80 UMS - 65
70 UMS - 58

who predicted that your uncle in uzbekistan who thinks a goat is a rocket

get out of here with your ******** grade boundaries loser

Reply 1435

Sophie Wilczek

2

Original post by ombtom

M3 was definitely easier, compared to the past papers. Although I still managed to mess up M3 (the 9 mark question) and do fairly well in FP1. :biggrin:

I was completely shocked on Wednesday cause I am not a mechanics expert (I tend to get like 80-85% in M3) but on Wednesday every single thing went so smooth. Today tho... I think I'll get the lowest FP1 grade in my life. 😂 I think I lost like 8 marks and all in such a stupid way. What a nightmare. Btw maybe u remember how much were the last two subsequent ions in question 9 worth?
☺️🙃

Reply 1436

metrize

18

Do people do maths as and further as at the same time or do maths a level in one year then further maths a level second year

Reply 1437

Haamoo7

3

That question 7 ****ed me over.
I found every single question easily doable except for question 7 and 9.
I couldn't find A, so that's a lot of marks lost already for question 7.
I couldn't show that the equation of the normal in question 9a was the equation that they gave us.
Plus I'm sure I made loads of silly mistakes everywhere.

A B (if I'm lucky), but probably gonna get a C or something.

Surprisingly, I found the proofs to be quite easy, yet everyone else is finding it hard. Kinda implies that I probably did it wrong too.

)):

Reply 1438

anndz3007

2

Was the self inverse matrix R or T , cus i bloody used T as the matrix and now everyonr says its R thats the matrix, would i lose make for calling it wrong

Reply 1439

TheRandomGenius

11

For you, maybe. But in most people's opinion this was the hardest ever UK FP1 paper, which I agree with. In fact, I think it's the second hardest overall FP1 paper including IAL, coming second only to Jan 2016.

Original post by beta_tester

it was a very easy paper though, and it was 69 for an A one year

Edexcel FP1 Thread - 20th May, 2016

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