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

Do you realise that the petitions, which occur every year are a joke (?) AQA will not release a new paper, ever, and grade boundaries will stay the same or around the same as last year as this is the last iteration of the specification. All the emails that being sent, will not be taken into consideration at all. Do you think that the papers were written last minute?

It's mathematical ingenuity.

Does anybody have good resources for hard core 4 questions, harder than past paper ones of course..

Have a look at Edexcel C4 Solomon question papers. They are not much different from AQA.

i did this in my mock for june 15 and i only got 4/7, it was awful xD

Try to learn the concept rather than just doing past papers.
The Q about secx-tanx ....... has never came up before but if you understand trigonometry, i.e (secx + tanx)(sex - tanx) = 1 should not appear too alien

Questions like this are supposed to be in the paper, but only one or two so as to seperate A/A* students from everybody else
Since there were very few middle ground questions, students capable of Bs and Cs wont be distinguishable from those capable of Ds and Es

I feel exactly the same, I'm a mother too, and feel helpless that so many students are imagining their lives to be altered over the course of 90 minutes. Exams should be a fair test of knowledge and skill, and if the student is well prepared, the majority should feel confident they have given it their best. My daughter said she did not get a chance to show the extent of her knowledge which is a ridiculous position to put a 17 year old in.

That paper has completely knocked my confidence for my remaining exams, and all are considered more difficult than Core 3 by most. Its a shame that we haven't been given the slightest of opportunities to show what we are capable of, since all of us had potential to be successful, and AQA are trying to snatch this opportunity away from us through the papers they have set for both Core 3, Chem 4, and other papers.

Whats worse is that people from other exam boards will have normal papers, and so people will achieve the grades they deserve through their exam boards, but we are less likely too. Having a non standardised method of examining students across the UK completely skews everything, as universities look at the grades, and not the grades paired with the exam boards.

Its such a shame that such a paper has even existed. I think its one of the few times where almost everyone agrees the paper was unfair. I hope AQA see the opinions of the students, and takes action to sort this issue.

It wasn't an unfair paper at all, hard papers are supposed to allow those who have initiative and potential to perform well in the exam. Having a exams which remain the same in difficulty and questions defeats the purpose of an exam.

Grade boundaries will lower? I think I got 53-56 marks, so a B, maybe scraping an A


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This is what I reckon the grade boundaries will be like:

62 - A*
55 - A
50 - B

It was a more challenging paper than last years but not by much. i reckon the actual GB will be as above +-1.

Daaaayummmm You've just made me feel even worse

That wasn't an A* question, sorry. I think what you did was only revise from past paper/s without comprehending the underlying concept

Try to learn the concept rather than just doing past papers.
The Q about secx-tanx ....... has never came up before but if you understand trigonometry, i.e (secx + tanx)(sex - tanx) = 1 should not appear too alien