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Edexcel AS Further Maths Core Pure 13th May

dasdsd

Anyone else do the paper, and how did you find it compared to past papers?

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really hard

Compared to last years paper, practically impossible. I couldn’t even finish it in time...

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geokinkladze

We now have two threads. Anyhow, anyone know where I can get a copy of this paper? They used to be available on TSR before they cracked down.

I have no idea sorry

I did the OCR MEI paper and got no more than 10/60 so your not the only ones :smile:

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Jpad

First 7 were mainly ok but the last 3 were very different to anything I’d seen before and I’ve done every past paper I could get my hands on.(might have been last two, it’s mostly blanked from my mind now)

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Hannah2921

Mostly doable although a couple of questions that seemed impossible (cHiMpaNzEes)

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cgstanding

It’s wasn’t too awful. But one or two questions were nightmares, and I didn’t have time to finish the last question... I’ve never hated chimpanzees more in my entire life.

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ananomousey

lets make an unnoffical marckscheme

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Elliamy

my last question was a quartic equation in which I needed to find the roots; alpha, beta, gamma and delta, which was worth 7/60 and I had NO idea what so ever, so you may have had it better. Didn't do edexcel so I can't really comment.

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Alyscara

The first 5 were alright, the standard deviation out of 85 marbles baffled me a little, but the last three questions were disgusting. Honestly just hoping the grade boundaries are low for this year

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SarahLouise0911

The order is wrong but I found the test hard :/

1.Matrix 2x2 inverse, determinant was -18 so not singular. Show that line was invariant.
2. Roots of polynomial w-3=x, don’t remember my answer though.
3. Argand diagrams? Roots aren’t the same quartic because they’re not complex conjugates. Prove argument was pi/4 and shade the diagram.
4. Is the line on the plane, intersect or parallel - didn’t manage to finish.
5. Three roots questions, -4 or 4 (don’t remember) and 2 +- 2^1/2. P was 22 or -22
6. Prod by induction (show that)
7. Vectors shortest distance I got as 427 approx so I saiid it was practical as OP was only 5 longer so not significant
8. Volume of revolution, I got the angle as 254 approx?
9. Series with the marbles mean and standard deviation, got the show that but can’t remember my answer for the standard deviation.
10. ChImPaNzEezZz

Reply 13

RedGiant

What did you guys get for the standard deviation? And the shortest distance for the mountain? Oh and the angle for the volume of revolution one. I don’t remember my answers well :/

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Reply 14

marceline666

Original post by dasdsd

Anyone else do the paper, and how did you find it compared to past papers?

I was so confident at first, but then after Q4 the questions were ridiculously difficult. I ran out of time, couldn't even get to the last 3 questions... It was impossible

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algoko

What did people get for that volumes of revolution one? I had no idea that we had to know how to work out the degree by which you rotate the shape by!! I was so confused by the fact you times the integral by pi to rotate it by 360, when pi in radians in 180...

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thekidwhogames

Original post by RedGiant

What did you guys get for the standard deviation? And the shortest distance for the mountain? Oh and the angle for the volume of revolution one. I don’t remember my answers well :/

Also I think I got -2 (i)sqrt(2) and it’s conjugate for the polynomial, anyone else?