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What makes you think the grade boundaries will decrease? Did you not see the difficulty of paper 3 last year and yet the grade boundaries were still quite high.
paper 1 and paper 2 harder than last year paper 3 easier than last year and leaked meaning the grade boundaries will stay quite similar give or take 3 marks. Not to mention there were some mentions of a paper 2 leak and also the fact that further mathematicians sitting the exam will also raise the grade boundaries.There is a lot to worry about people's medicine and uni places or degrees are on the line.
In the past when this has happend with c4 leaks the grade boundaries stayed exactly the same so i woudn't be too optimistic.Edexcel could easily decrease each grade boundary by 3 marks dosent make that much of a difference the cheaters still have a much greater advantage and most people would have missed their grades

Last year paper 3 was difficult, due to a difficult stats section. I am saying the grade boundaries will decrease because of the difficulty of those pure papers, while the stats section this year was a lot more easy, the mechanics section was quite similar in difficulty. I strongly doubt that the easier stats section will make up for the increase in difficulty of those pure papers. You make a valid point where you mention the grade boundaries will stay quite similar, which I do see happening, though I do see a marginal drop in grade boundaries across all grades. Comparing occurrences from the old specification to this is like comparing apples and oranges, there are also far too many factors in play to be able to make a fair comparison between this set of exams and others (including those from last year) which is why there is still a lot of uncertainty. But, I do see the grade boundaries dropping slightly.

Lol I thought the mechanics section was way harder than stats

Last year paper 3 was difficult, due to a difficult stats section. I am saying the grade boundaries will decrease because of the difficulty of those pure papers, while the stats section this year was a lot more easy, the mechanics section was quite similar in difficulty. I strongly doubt that the easier stats section will make up for the increase in difficulty of those pure papers. You make a valid point where you mention the grade boundaries will stay quite similar, which I do see happening, though I do see a marginal drop in grade boundaries across all grades. Comparing occurrences from the old specification to this is like comparing apples and oranges, there are also far too many factors in play to be able to make a fair comparison between this set of exams and others (including those from last year) which is why there is still a lot of uncertainty. But, I do see the grade boundaries dropping slightly.

Thats how exactly i look at things too but then the slight decrease is so unjustified and it would of been a major decrease had paper 3 not been leaked. I am just frustrated because the grade boundaries are too high for the difficulty of our exams but hey there is always next year.
Good luck anyway im sure you smashed it.

A Riemann sum is kind of (or an approximation to) what an integral actually is - a sum of infinitely many infinitely small "strips" under a function, which is what the diagram in the question was showing.
Most people complained because they didn't know what $\delta$ was, but really all that mattered was that it tended to 0. But if you were being really precise, the given formula isn't quite right.

What did you have to do exactly for that question? I remember doing something along the lines of integrating it.

There have been a number of Edexcel leaks at both GCSE and A level in the past couple of years, what has been Edexcel's plan to combat thks. Moving forward what is their new plan.

IIRC every single one of the maths GCSE leaks was fake. They were just old papers with the date on the front switched.

Edexcel are including those 2 leaked qs , they also think that paper 2 was ‘fair and valid’ tf

The papers were fair and valid. The papers were the right level of difficulty.

For you but not for 90% of the U.K.

For you but not for 90% of the U.K.

I didn't do Edexcel.

The papers were fair, get over it.

Boundaries will reflect difficulty.

Apparently this person doesn’t even do edexcel

What a weirdo 😂 some people