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WJEC Mathematics Higher Paper 1 - June 11 2013

How did everyone find it? Was certainly harder than last year's but I don't know what to think of it..

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aledo6
It was definitely harder than last years! Everyone I have spoken to found it hard, hopefully the Calculator paper will make up for it!


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What answer did you get for the area of the rectange which had the two circles either side? Also the circle theorems question?
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I found it very hard.

I skipped the area of rectangle question.

About the circle theorem question I got 4x I think it was. Just double the angle on the circle. Which is probably wrong.
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Any idea on the grade boundaries ?
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I also got 4x as it was 2(2x)! For tbe rectangle one I just got a ridiculous answer like 9400cm squared haha. The grade boudaries last year were 27/200 for a C, 40/200 for a B, 78/200 for an A and 132/200 for an A*, so pretty low!

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Original post by DaanH
I also got 4x as it was 2(2x)! For tbe rectangle one I just got a ridiculous answer like 9400cm squared haha. The grade boudaries last year were 27/200 for a C, 40/200 for a B, 78/200 for an A and 132/200 for an A*, so pretty low!

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40/200 ? So 20% for a B ?

I reckon I did quite well in the 9 marker question on the water companies.
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Yeah that's what it was last year, and I can't see it getting much higher because the paper was hard! Yeah for my answer to that one I put the man should choose the water company depending on how long he is staying on the island!

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Also, what did you get for the acceleration on the graph question. I thought it was just 1m/s squared. But it seems to simple fot 4 marks ?
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I also got 1m/s squared because it was 1/1, however that part was worth 2 marks and the part before it was worth 2 marks, so it just said 4 at the end of the whole question!

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Oh I see.

After thinking about it, I'm sure I got around 40/100.

Was there any other quite hard questions in it ?
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I'm thinking I got between 75 - 85, considering I did last year's paper as a mock and got 100% on it! Urm there was a question where you had to find the dimensions of a tile which I got 6.5 x2? And there was a tough one where you had to simplify a fraction by factorising it!

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The tile dimensions one I skipped, but near the end I figured out it was a simultaneous equations question, at least I think it was anyway.

I don't remember the other one your talking about.

It would be handy too see the paper again if anyone has a copy :P
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Recky101
Probably the worst maths paper compared to the previous years ones. How did you guys find the question with the pigs? The one with the x pigs, y days and z or something. I made something up for that one, made no sense.
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It was y = z/x and the assumption you had to make was that the two pigs ate the same amount of food!
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What did you guys get for the very last question. Was it 9.5m? Also what do you think will be an A in this paper? I found it a lot harder than past papers
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wb25
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Can't remember what was the last question now. Will the paper be on the WJEC website any time soon
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I got 9m but using the area of a trapezium rule? I think that you will need a score of around 110 over both papers for an A

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They don't put the paper on until the next season, so it won't be on before results day

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Original post by DaanH
I got 9m but using the area of a trapezium rule? I think that you will need a score of around 110 over both papers for an A

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That low? That's only like 55% on each paper

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