Edexcel C2 20th May 2015 *Official Thread*

When I first scanned through the paper I was like "YES this is a good paper!"... Then I attempted it and struggled.
I hated that cylinder question..

And another point, getting A* at Maths GCSE is irrelevant, at this stage. At GCSE, there is no application of knowledge, you can honestly learn the whole syllabus the night before for every exam and come out with 5/6 A*s. So please do not bring GCSE into this. I think your son has failed to recognise the transition from GCSE to ALevel.

The cylinder question was the best question I think after binomial of course

People said doing past papers from previous years set and spotting your mistakes, correcting these, was the best method of revision for maths.
Not the case anymore...

Im not sure but...
ur aiming for at least 80% overall then
Out of 225 (75 x3) you need at least 180 marks (0.8x225)
you already have 129 (according to your post)
180-129
so approx. 51/75.

urgghhhhh hate cylinders
I also hated that geometric series q.

He clearly knew the transition, She clearly said it was a resit. I dont think it takes a resit to recognise the transition? In fact simply doing past papers does, but in this case past papers from previous years wouldn't help much according to this year's maths exams sadly

Yes that one was bad, finding a and r was too much for me, and that horrible trigonometry question. I
It wanted cos x in terms of k, so I was thinking how the hell do i get rid of cos squared x or can it go with k, so I just gave up

i got the B-A=48 question wrong lol

i got the B-A=48 question wrong lol

Yes that one was bad, finding a and r was too much for me, and that horrible trigonometry question. I
It wanted cos x in terms of k, so I was thinking how the hell do i get rid of cos squared x or can it go with k, so I just gave up

Anyone saying the paper was nothing like past papers must've done like 1 past paper, if that lol.

What do you think the grade boundaries are? I think it'll be around 55 or less for an A. I really hope C1 is also low because that was shocking, but C2 was just plain difficult. Hopefully S1 is better, so I can get 100 UMS in that exam to bump up the grade.