Edexcel FP2 Official 2016 Exam Thread - 8th June 2016

For 5/8 Q's solutions:

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4150403

There goes my only chance at Warwick

Hope this helps soothe the pain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yHJBUcwNfU

My thoughts: dreadful. I'm usually confident after exams, but this was just so unlike an FP2 paper.

1. Inequalities: standard
2. Series: really difficult to spot the method to sum the terms that didn't cancel. I didn't reach the required answer.
3. Complex roots: standard
4. First-order: completely messed it up. The change in variable confused me greatly, and didn't spot the easiest integrating factor ever in part b).
5. Taylor series: standard. Worded a bit weirdly, but otherwise nothing away from the norm.
6. Second-order: tricky to do the transformation. Has came up many times recently and I got confused with my chain rule. But otherwise standard once you get the ball rolling.
7. de Moivres: standard
8. Polar coordinates: was a little confused by the decimal limit. If you've done past papers you would've spotted that you needed the area of the sector, then integrate curve C1.

I knew Edexcel would've doubled-down on FP2 given the past few papers have been relatively easy (64-67 for an A).

I think the grade boundaries will be:
A*: 59
A: 55
B: 49

Did anyone else still have an e^u they were unable to get rid of in their equation after they'd substituted in Q7a? If the x^2 in front of the first term of equation 1 was instead an x I'd have got the answer.


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My thoughts: dreadful. I'm usually confident after exams, but this was just so unlike an FP2 paper.

1. Inequalities: standard
2. Series: really difficult to spot the method to sum the terms that didn't cancel. I didn't reach the required answer.
3. Complex roots: standard
4. First-order: completely messed it up. The change in variable confused me greatly, and didn't spot the easiest integrating factor ever in part b).
5. Taylor series: standard. Worded a bit weirdly, but otherwise nothing away from the norm.
6. Second-order: tricky to do the transformation. Has came up many times recently and I got confused with my chain rule. But otherwise standard once you get the ball rolling.
7. de Moivres: standard
8. Polar coordinates: was a little confused by the decimal limit. If you've done past papers you would've spotted that you needed the area of the sector, then integrate curve C1.

I knew Edexcel would've doubled-down on FP2 given the past few papers have been relatively easy (64-67 for an A).

I think the grade boundaries will be:
A*: 59
A: 55
B: 49

I had that

[video="youtube;eT6gE51uaTs"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT6gE51uaTs[/video]


Whoever made this needs a medal xD

My thoughts: dreadful. I'm usually confident after exams, but this was just so unlike an FP2 paper.

1. Inequalities: standard
2. Series: really difficult to spot the method to sum the terms that didn't cancel. I didn't reach the required answer.
3. Complex roots: standard
4. First-order: completely messed it up. The change in variable confused me greatly, and didn't spot the easiest integrating factor ever in part b).
5. Taylor series: standard. Worded a bit weirdly, but otherwise nothing away from the norm.
6. Second-order: tricky to do the transformation. Has came up many times recently and I got confused with my chain rule. But otherwise standard once you get the ball rolling.
7. de Moivres: standard
8. Polar coordinates: was a little confused by the decimal limit. If you've done past papers you would've spotted that you needed the area of the sector, then integrate curve C1.

I knew Edexcel would've doubled-down on FP2 given the past few papers have been relatively easy (64-67 for an A).

I think the grade boundaries will be:
A*: 59
A: 55
B: 49

Terrible. Anybody got any Idea when a model mark scheme may be available?

My thoughts: dreadful. I'm usually confident after exams, but this was just so unlike an FP2 paper.

1. Inequalities: standard
2. Series: really difficult to spot the method to sum the terms that didn't cancel. I didn't reach the required answer.
3. Complex roots: standard
4. First-order: completely messed it up. The change in variable confused me greatly, and didn't spot the easiest integrating factor ever in part b). Ended up with an integrating factor of 1/(cosec theta + cot theta)^2
5. Taylor series: standard. Worded a bit weirdly, but otherwise nothing away from the norm.
6. Second-order: tricky to do the transformation. Has came up many times recently and I got confused with my chain rule. But otherwise standard once you get the ball rolling.
7. de Moivres: standard
8. Polar coordinates: was a little confused by the decimal limit. If you've done past papers you would've spotted that you needed the area of the sector, then integrate curve C1.

I knew Edexcel would've doubled-down on FP2 given the past few papers have been relatively easy (64-67 for an A).

I think the grade boundaries will be:
A*: 59
A: 55
B: 49