Edexcel FP2 Official 2016 Exam Thread - 8th June 2016

FWIW, I ended up with A's in FP2/FP3/S3 which were the only modules I sat in June. Rather annoyed about FP3, was sure I had 75/75 but got 97 UMS, seems to have happened to a few of my friends in other modules as well.

BTW, whilst I'm here - do you have any idea what this means:

It repeats further down on the sheet, except with the codes XFM01 and XMA01. I'm rather concerned, but Track confirms I'm in, so the uni's should have received my results properly?

Rather annoyed about FP3, was sure I had 75/75 but got 97 UMS, seems to have happened to a few of my friends in other modules as well.

do you think its possible for the examiner to make a big mistake? like i was going through fp3 sure that i should have got 75/75 but ended up with 79 ums

do you think its possible for the examiner to make a big mistake? like i was going through fp3 sure that i should have got 75/75 but ended up with 79 ums

do you think its possible for the examiner to make a big mistake? like i was going through fp3 sure that i should have got 75/75 but ended up with 79 ums

To be fair 79 ums was 67/75 right? Not unfeasible that you could lose that much in method marks is it?

I got 79 as well :/ my favourite module.

Did anyone else get lower than expected UMS on FP2? I got my script back and it turns out they gave me 0 for the differential equation question (the second part) because I used the STEP method for solving the integral.

What method is this?

the integral was e^x sinx.

you use parts twice and then rearrange and solve in terms of the original integral.

I used the same method and got 98% for FP2, so I am assuming they didn't give me 0 marks.

the integral was e^x sinx.

you use parts twice and then rearrange and solve in terms of the original integral.

i did that too. noway that explains why i got such a low mark. have you told them anything? and what have they said?

I'm going to get my remark on monday. I haven't heard anything yet.

Might be too much to ask but let me know what happens? pm me or something. if you don't feel comfortable about doing that I understand
Thanks

the integral was e^x sinx.

you use parts twice and then rearrange and solve in terms of the original integral.

That is the method used in the mark scheme. However the integrating factor was e^(2x). Missing out that 2 would be expensive.

Yeah I know it was e^2x, I was just outlining the method.