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AQA A2 Mathematics MPC3 Core 3 - Wednesday 15th June 2016 [Official Thread]

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I am just saying that every year candidates say the same thing:

"omg it was so hard"
"aqa omgggg whyyy"

And now it's happening here.

Is it not delusional to expect A* to be below 60? Is it not delusional to think that everyone has bombed the exam because they did? Is it not delusional to think that because they flopped that the exam board it to blame? Is it not delusional to start a petition about this exam's difficulty.
Even if you won't admit it, I know your answer.

AQA is innocent, you all are not. It's easy to blame the "evil" exam board just because you were too lazy to revise.

And no, this is an exam DISCUSSION. Not a safe space for failures to circlejerk at how horrible they did and how it wasn't their fault.

Ugh get a grip

PS: The time you spent typing up that joke of message you could have spent REVISING for your other exams. I expect to see you here complaining again post-Core 4

C u n t

Reply 841

Yo12345

Original post by Pablo Picasso

Yes

or ask here. I don't have a photographic memory :/

How many marks out of 6 would I get on the (e^2x +1) differential if I correctly worked out the x and y points and got the base of e^3 but not getting the final answer.

Did you get 4.49 for Simpson's Rule?

Would I get marks on the last question part a). for putting everything in terms of cosx. I got 1/cosx =0.2 which is wrong, but would I get method marks?

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Reply 842

Pablo Picasso

Original post by MollyTaylor1998

How convenient to have a head of maths who also works for AQA! Strange to think he didn't mention that it takes a board of examiners and staticians months of analysis to come up with grade boundaries? And that many factors come into play other than the difficulty of the questions🤔 Like I don't know maybe the performance of candidates compared to prior performance and predicted grades? And not to mention the percentage of people who achieve over 90%? So strange that he could give you such a definitive answer!

Strange to also think you assume the 10% quartile of students achieving A*s will drastically change

Reply 843

Grakata

Original post by Barbecuetime123

My further maths teacher also works for AQA, she said basically the same.... Any thoughts on what full ums will be?

Yeah, my teacher pointed out the same, a lot of it was applying what you know, though it might be a little lower than normal, seeing that there's a lot of people complaining about it (straight A/A* students at my school including myself found it difficult compared to previous years).

Though, there is the fact that those who perform well tend not to bring it up, unless they want to brag about it, so there's probably bias towards those who didn't perform as well.

Reply 844

bonjovi99

Original post by Pablo Picasso

Just spoke to the head of Maths in my school, who also works for AQA, he said that many people who thought it was hard were merely exaggerating, and the grade boundaries will likely not move from the previous years' iteration. He predicts thus

A* 65
A 61
B 56
C 53

He also said he thought that none of the questions were new or weirdly written, so i guess the grade boundaries will remain standard

Go away no one likes you

Reply 845

Tau

I thought it was reasonable although it was the hardest C3 paper I've seen (but one has to be). I think I made a few mistakes but fairly confident it will still be an A*, although the UMS will probably not be as high as I would have liked.

Reply 846

cookies2312

Original post by utilitymaker

Exactly. It was an easy paper.

I finished 20 minutes early personally. I'm buzzing at how great it went and I'm not even good at maths!

M8 your life is going to be such a joke when you get a U in Core 3. Don't be so confident.

Reply 847

Swindelz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV2nOYvACr8

Reply 848

KP.

Original post by utilitymaker

Then I guess U know what you'll get on results day.

Hint: I put it in the sentence above!

this guy is a ****ing ****. tryna make everyone feel even worse you daft mother ****er. Think youre such a big man ennit

Reply 849

girl :D

Any one else get 4.05 fr simpson rule

Reply 850

Berke0

Original post by utilitymaker

I don't think you should be doing A-levels let alone maths...

I may have failed but I still have friends. You on the other hand are ugly smelly and probably have none

Reply 851

utilitymaker

Original post by KP.

this guy is a ****ing ****. tryna make everyone feel even worse you daft mother ****er. Think youre such a big man ennit

I sincerely hope that you didn't write filth like that in your exam paper!

Reply 852

utilitymaker

Original post by Berke0

I may have failed but I still have friends. You on the other hand are ugly smelly and probably have none

I look satisfactory, smell normal and have an array of friends actually.

I also passed.

Reply 853

KP.

Original post by utilitymaker

I sincerely hope that you didn't write filth like that in your exam paper!

this guy is a ****

Reply 854

Berke0

Original post by utilitymaker

I look satisfactory, smell normal and have an array of friends actually.

I also passed.

Prove it. Post a photo of you and you friends. I don't believe you do

Reply 855

cookies2312

Original post by utilitymaker

I sincerely hope that you didn't write filth like that in your exam paper!

Really think you should stop with your comments. You're just seeking for attention.

Reply 856

fpmaniac

Original post by C0balt

Your thoughts are much appreciated 😊

For the volume of revolution question did u get

$\Pi (-2(ln3)^2)$
Initially I got
$pi\int_{\frac{1}{3}}^{1} (-(ln3x)^2 - (something similar))$
But when i subbed in 1/3 I got ln1 which was 0 so got the above final answer

Reply 857

utilitymaker

Original post by Berke0

Prove it. Post a photo of you and you friends. I don't believe you do

I'm not going to post a picture of myself and my friends on a student forum.

Hahaha, you must be having a right laugh!

Hilarious.

I hope you slipped in a couple of these jokes onto your exam script, who knows, perhaps they'll bump your grade up to an E! :h:

Reply 858

Faz The Poet

UTILITYMAKER
We understand you think you are gods gift to the earth and are sure you'll get all A*s and have an amazing life, will you be quiet now and let people actually discuss the paper rather than putting people down to inflate your ego and prove to anonymous strangers on the internet how clever you are??