Arsey's Edexcel M1 Summer 2013 Model Solutions BOTH PAPERS

Looking at past papers when you have access to mark schemes, model answers and not in the pressure of an actual exam is completely different.

This paper was not in the same league as Jan 09. If you had taken the Jan 09 paper yesterday and had never seen it before, the markers would be marking your tears of pain.


Q1 - easy, standard momentum

Q2 - easy, but could cause confusion

Q3 - standard, not easy but should be okay if you had hammered the past papers

Q4 - very easy kinematics

Q5 - fairly easy speed time graph, the 10 seconds later may have caused problems though

Q6 - hard

Q7 - very easy vectors

Q8 - very easy connected particles. The last bit doesn't get asked too often but it is easy.


If this paper is below 60/75 for 80ums I will be absolutely amazed!!!

90ums is generally 69 or 70/75

The tension one I got something like 7.6N and 8.4N. Not sure which one for which.
The one with the two balls, I got about 2.8s and about 17.2 m

You remember what you got?


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I'm just wondering what you thought was so hard about question 6, it seemed like a standard moments question to me?

If you use +2 for a in Q2 instead of -2 will you lose all 6 marks?
and if you get the COM wrong on the moments Q and use this mass for the following Q's will you lose all the marks?

It was conditional moments, some people didn't know the exact objective to get both of them, I knew it was simultaneous equations but I had to take moments 3 times to finally get something that makes sense

Arsey, for the elevator question i wrote what was needed for 3 marks but also wrote another incorrect solution. will they ignore this altogether or give credit for what i did do?

Please reply to this arsey!!!!

Please reply to this arsey!!!!

This is what I remember (may not be correct):
Q1) Balls colliding - 14Ns and 1.33 something
Q2) Ropes to attached to ceiling - T = 7.xx N and 8.xx N
Q3) Some pulley stuff - T = 26.1 N
Q4) Something about friction - coefficient = 0.411
Q5) Some balls being thrown - t = 0.2xx s and h = 17.7 m
Q6) Vectors - time = 2h?, distance = 8.xx km
Q7) Towbar - 1.02 ms-2, T = 517 N, R = 1750 N
Q8) Moments - x = 0.6 and m = 23.5kg

I thought the towbar question was hardest, really doubtful about that one.

You can't write two answers lol, you'll lose A1

Nope, you actually gain full credit if one's correct.

Last January's markscheme:

If a candidate makes more than one attempt at any question:
• If all but one attempt is crossed out, mark the attempt which is
NOT crossed out.
• If either all attempts are crossed out or none are crossed out, mark
all the attempts and score the highest single attempt.

Nope, you actually gain full credit if one's correct.

Last January's markscheme:

If a candidate makes more than one attempt at any question:
• If all but one attempt is crossed out, mark the attempt which is
NOT crossed out.
• If either all attempts are crossed out or none are crossed out, mark
all the attempts and score the highest single attempt.

Q1) Speed A: 2ms-1Speed B: 1.33ms-1
Q2) Similar answer
Q3) Don't remember. But 26.1N looks familiar
Q4) coefficient of friction :0.4
Q5) Same-ish
Q6) Couldn't solve 'n'
Q7)
a=-1.02ms-2
T, put about 516.7N
R, didn't have a clue...
Q8) Yup same!

Edit: I asked some people after the exam, they also didn't like question 7...

ECF (error carried forward) probably get about 2-4 marks in total lose both A1's

Nope, you actually gain full credit if one's correct.

Last January's markscheme:

If a candidate makes more than one attempt at any question:
• If all but one attempt is crossed out, mark the attempt which is
NOT crossed out.
• If either all attempts are crossed out or none are crossed out, mark
all the attempts and score the highest single attempt.