AQA MM03 8th June 2016 Exam Discussion

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This may be stupid but i thought there may have been a typo in the question, when calculating pq I did it in two steps, but tt was 7 marks so I tthought they may have wanted us to calculate the distance of that line. The more likely issue is that I did that one all wrong, how did you do it?

I couldn't do it, but I realised afterwards you could let x=6+PQcos45 and y=PQsin45, and you plug that into projectile equation.

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A Slice of Pi

Original post by C0balt

I couldn't do it, but I realised afterwards you could let x=6+PQcos45 and y=PQsin45, and you plug that into projectile equation.

I did it like that too. Was that one 7 marks too?

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C0balt

Original post by A Slice of Pi

I did it like that too. Was that one 7 marks too?

Yup.

What did you get for the second projectile question where the ball bounced off and landed beyond A and you had to find e<k where k is a constant?

Reply 63

H40

The grade boundaries need to be as low as 2008, then I may have scraped an A. (48 for an A in 2008)

Reply 64

A Slice of Pi

Original post by C0balt

Yup.

What did you get for the second projectile question where the ball bounced off and landed beyond A and you had to find e<k where k is a constant?

I think I made a mistake on this. Mine involved tan... There was a similar one on June 2010 and its the very last question on that. I didn't finish Q6 (b) because I was pushed for time and moved on to the 8 marker

Reply 65

C0balt

Original post by A Slice of Pi

The projectile e<k (6b?) made me use like 4 numbers with loads of decimal places and I got the answer to be e<0.2 something which I am convinced is wrong because that was so messy. I gave up on Q7. I also messed up restitution (5b?). I got something similar to whatever they were trying to make us show but totally different at the same time. I wish we has 3 hours for that exam lol

Reply 66

A Slice of Pi

Original post by C0balt

I think mine ended up as 0.2... something too. It makes me wonder if they've tested that paper to see if the allotted time is enough.

Reply 67

CMP100Em

Worst exam ever

Did anyone get an answer for the bearing in the last part of the last question? I got 024, no idea if it's right

(edited 7 years ago)

Reply 68

C0balt

Original post by A Slice of Pi

I think mine ended up as 0.2... something too. It makes me wonder if they've tested that paper to see if the allotted time is enough.

Even if I knew what I was doing for every question I'd have taken like 1.25 hrs doing the algebra you know 😂

Reply 69

amarkham09

Original post by C0balt

I couldn't do it, but I realised afterwards you could let x=6+PQcos45 and y=PQsin45, and you plug that into projectile equation.

Yeah, that's what I did, then I got a quadratic for PQ. Not sure whether I got the right answer though!

Reply 70

A Slice of Pi

Original post by C0balt

Even if I knew what I was doing for every question I'd have taken like 1.25 hrs doing the algebra you know 😂

I knew the methods for all the questions but still made silly mistakes. So much trig in there too...

Reply 71

aoxa

Original post by CMP100Em

Worst exam ever

Did anyone get an answer for the bearing in the last part of the last question? I got 024, no idea if it's right

I didn't get 24, but all the clever (aka Oxbridge bound) people in my exam did, so it's probably right.

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Reply 72

aoxa

Original post by A Slice of Pi

I did it like that too. Was that one 7 marks too?

Did you actually managed to get PQ then? I did it that way, but must have screwed up the algebra somewhere because my answers kept coming out wrong

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Reply 73

A Slice of Pi

Original post by aoxa

Did you actually managed to get PQ then? I did it that way, but must have screwed up the algebra somewhere because my answers kept coming out wrong

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I did. Whether it's right is another story. I know I made a silly mistake on Q7 (b) and couldn't finish 6 (b) in time

Reply 74

CMP100Em

How many marks was finding the length PQ?

Reply 75

C0balt

Original post by CMP100Em

How many marks was finding the length PQ?

Seven

Reply 76

SophieBarlow87

Original post by C0balt

I couldn't do it, but I realised afterwards you could let x=6+PQcos45 and y=PQsin45, and you plug that into projectile equation.

Thats what i did but it took me seconds and about threelines and i dont think it was worth 7 marks.

Reply 77

PeterDylan

Has anyone got any predictions on grade boundaries?

Reply 78

PeterDylan

Original post by C0balt

I couldn't do it, but I realised afterwards you could let x=6+PQcos45 and y=PQsin45, and you plug that into projectile equation.

Oh is this how you do it? in the question it said it was travelling horizontally so i set the final speed (in y direction) to be 0 and found the vertical distance, then used trig to find PQ, has this method got any merit at all or have i just made it up? hahaha