EDEXCEL MATHS PAPER 1 - GRADE BOUNDARY PETITION (10,000+ signatures)

Sorry but I am one of the many thousands of GCSE students how took this exam. I am predicted to get an A* this year and I think I will be lucky if I get a B. The exam was a lot harder than any of the other math paper that I had ever tried and I think that many of you don't quite understand the pressure put on students to get A*. Also the time that we have to answer all of these hard exam questions in, simply is not long enough and so no wonder many of us came out of the exam angry and upset. As for those how think that we need to "toughen up", if you were one of the students who had to sit in that exam and get faced with a question that was badly worded and that you had never been taught to do (in that context), you would be just as angry as us.

Do either of you two understand UMS for this exam? Raw marks are not converted to UMS for this spec - you just get given a grade and (not UMS) points that correspond to that grade. The raw mark grade boundaries will be adjusted accordingly, however.

Adults, the raw marks are NOT converted into UMS marks for Mathematics A Linear Edexcel Specification. Just wanted to say that.

Somebody else has already brought is up, and myself and the other person mentioning UMS in the last page have apologised

However, the point still stands but replace 'UMS' with 'raw mark grade boundaries' nothing has changed...

Have you read through this thread?

If you're an A* student, you will most likely still get an A* because however many marks you got is usually in the top percentile of results - grade boundaries change!!

There is a lot of pressure, but wait until you get to A Level where 68/75 is an A.

100 marks in 120 minutes is perfectly fair. Most exams are 1 mark for 1 minute...

Yes you'll be angry, but I doubt your grade will change. Spend tidy revising for paper 2!!

105 minutes dumb ass

Yeah, I know that if people don't do well,grade boundaries will be lowered. That's what most of the people is saying but I have a question.. For Hannah's sweets can you get madks for doing:

(n+5) (n-6)
= n2 - 6n + 5n - 30 = 1/3
= n2- n - 90 = 0 ?

so this petition has been going around, directed towards edexcel to lower the grade boundaries for todays maths paper 1. Over 10,000 people have signed it.
Thoughts?

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Maths is my worst subject and I'm predicted a B. I went through the paper with a calm mind set and knew there were a couple of questions (the grain question and the proove x=0.0028) that I couldn't answer and I knew that was okay because I would still get a B as you only have to get around 47 in most papers to get a B. I have seen questions similar to everything that came up (including the sweets question) and so it wasn't as bad as people were making out.

I personally think that twitter doesn't help. People start making funny tweets about the questions and how some of them were hard and then everyone wants to jump on the band wagon. I could have done the sweets question if I had of dedicated more time to it in the exam instead of making sure the questions I was confident on were gone correctly. I think people just liked the idea of everyone collectively moaning about it and the petition reflects how they think it may give them a better grade.

Good for you for having a mature attitude towards it, not jumping on a bandwagon like everyone else seems to be

I honestly hope that you get the grade that you deserve! Best of luck in the second paper, and if you do like you did in this one, then I'm sure you'll do well!

Maths is my worst subject and I'm predicted a B. I went through the paper with a calm mind set and knew there were a couple of questions (the grain question and the proove x=0.0028) that I couldn't answer and I knew that was okay because I would still get a B as you only have to get around 47 in most papers to get a B. I have seen questions similar to everything that came up (including the sweets question) and so it wasn't as bad as people were making out.

I personally think that twitter doesn't help. People start making funny tweets about the questions and how some of them were hard and then everyone wants to jump on the band wagon. I could have done the sweets question if I had of dedicated more time to it in the exam instead of making sure the questions I was confident on were gone correctly. I think people just liked the idea of everyone collectively moaning about it and the petition reflects how they think it may give them a better grade.

Finally somebody not moaning and reacting well! Nicely done, all the best for paper 2. You'll get the grade you want because you seem to be doing things properly

I don't think making memes about an exam and stressing will get me there though!

Maths is my worst subject and I'm predicted a B. I went through the paper with a calm mind set and knew there were a couple of questions (the grain question and the proove x=0.0028) that I couldn't answer and I knew that was okay because I would still get a B as you only have to get around 47 in most papers to get a B. I have seen questions similar to everything that came up (including the sweets question) and so it wasn't as bad as people were making out.

I personally think that twitter doesn't help. People start making funny tweets about the questions and how some of them were hard and then everyone wants to jump on the band wagon. I could have done the sweets question if I had of dedicated more time to it in the exam instead of making sure the questions I was confident on were gone correctly. I think people just liked the idea of everyone collectively moaning about it and the petition reflects how they think it may give them a better grade.

47s not getting a b. You need about 55 I think

Ah okay, I was just going on what the last grade boundaries were

Ohh right sorry tbf 47 may be a b cuz grade boundaries might be lower this time although it depends upon paper 2