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Edexcel A Level Maths - New Spec Grade Boundaries

Hey, I was just wondering if anyone had any details of what the new spec grade boundaries will be like for new spec A level maths and further maths.

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Reply 1

Muttley79

Original post by Rii.M

Hey, I was just wondering if anyone had any details of what the new spec grade boundaries will be like for new spec A level maths and further maths.

No and nor do the exam boards who set the papers! Just focus on doing your best as the grade boundaries will have to give a similar porprotion of grades to the current ones.

Anyone that says anything different is just guessing and its not very helpful.

(edited 5 years ago)

Reply 2

Rii.M

Original post by Muttley79

No and nor do the exam boards who set the papers! Just focus on doing your best as the grade boundaries will have to give a similar proprotion of grades to the current ones.

Anyone that says anything different is just guessing and its not very helpful.

I should have figured :colondollar:

Thanks anyways.

Reply 3

RedGiant

Original post by Rii.M

I should have figured :colondollar:

Thanks anyways.

Are you sitting new spec A Level maths (both AS and A2) this year?

Reply 4

Rii.M

Original post by RedGiant

Are you sitting new spec A Level maths (both AS and A2) this year?

no, taking both next year. my school isn't allowing anyone to take the A2 early

Reply 5

RedGiant

Original post by Rii.M

no, taking both next year. my school isn't allowing anyone to take the A2 early

Damn, I can't find anyone on here sitting new spec A Level maths this year :frown:

Reply 6

Rii.M

Original post by RedGiant

Damn, I can't find anyone on here sitting new spec A Level maths this year :frown:

Must be frustrating. If only my school wasn't run by tyrants :s-smilie:

When's the exam?

Reply 7

RedGiant

Just out of interest, what's your class size, and what would you say the general ability of your class is? I.e. Percentages/marks in tests? I'm just interested in knowing what some of the other cohort is like.

Reply 8

Potent900

Original post by RedGiant

Damn, I can't find anyone on here sitting new spec A Level maths this year :frown:

I am sitting full A2 this year then FM next year. Im freaking out as i need an A* but found the specimen papers soooo hard. The modelling and real life application questions need to be scrapped!!!!!!

Reply 9

RedGiant

Original post by Potent900

I am sitting full A2 this year then FM next year. Im freaking out as i need an A* but found the specimen papers soooo hard. The modelling and real life application questions need to be scrapped!!!!!!

Yeah tell me about it. What do you think about stats and mech (the damn mech specimen paper is ridiculous). Which parts are you good and not so good at?

Reply 10

Potent900

Original post by RedGiant

Yeah tell me about it. What do you think about stats and mech (the damn mech specimen paper is ridiculous). Which parts are you good and not so good at?

Not so good at stats. Hate hypothesis testing, especially with the normal distribution. I like all of calculus except some of book 2 integration. Dont really mind mechanics because it overlaps with physics

Reply 11

RedGiant

Original post by Potent900

What scores/percentages are your peers getting in mocks?

Were there lots of modelling questions? What was the style of questions like? And when you say it was basically the same, do you mean there was literally the same questions but using different numbers?

Reply 12

Katy55555

Hiiii,
Which paper was this?

Reply 13

RedGiant

Sounds like a nice paper. I hope to hell the A level papers will be the same. Were there many worded questions then? Or was it just using functions given to you (i.e. not formulating them yourself, that's where I go wrong lol).

Reply 14

Katy55555

Oh wow I found that really hard tbh, most of peers did aswell but maybe that’s because we finished the content on Thursday in our school lool?
What do you reckon the boundaries will be considering we are the first year taking it. I would want atleast a C this year and work really hard next year
Thank you!!!

Reply 15

RedGiant

Like formulating models, e.g. sequences and quadratics, y=kb^x and y=ax^n modelling and stuff? Maybe that's more in A2, although I thought that was a massive emphasis of the new spec. And yeah, most of the people in my class did terribly (when I say the specimen paper I mean the SAM paper on the website), there was hardly anything applicable that you get from the textbook. Most of it was just problem solving, and using a very specific approach that you have to just guess from many others. No use of formulas for range or max height (like (U^2sin^2a) / 2g ) or anything like that that you learn from the textbook. Most in my class got like 15/50, it was terrible. Maybe my peers (and myself) just suck at mech though.

Reply 16

Katy55555

Why do you think this?

Reply 17

Katy55555

70% A, 60% B, 50% C, 40% D.
I feel like new cohort 10% down each grade.

Reply 18

Potent900

How can you be doing full A level this year if you are doing AS maths this year??? The A level papers are totoally separate to the AS in the new spec so you must be doing full A level next year

Reply 19

Rauhan

Original post by Rii.M

Hey, I was just wondering if anyone had any details of what the new spec grade boundaries will be like for new spec A level maths and further maths.

Every year the grade boundaries depend on the performance done by students all over the world so clearly, no one knows what the specs will be for this year but I can say one thing and that is; If the exam is easy then A* would be closer to 125 (C12 AS LEVEL EDEXCEL EXAMS)