Arsey&#x27;s solutions

I've been contacted by Edexcel via TSR in the past and it was a genuine contact. I had told Arsey before that he shouldn't upload actual papers as it is a breach of copyright. Regarding not sharing answers online after the exam - well that simply can't be stopped. If Edexcel are worried about students using TSR to cheat on mocks then we could delete the summer exam threads after a period of time.

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Original post by dj3k

This is pretty dodgy behaviour - it isn't his property to upload.

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javiermascherano

would you be willing to email out the worked solutions or even just the answers to the questions for future exams?
Just an idea as edexcel would not have public solutions and we would get to see where we slipped up- or didn't.

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MattyJMP

Awww, Arsey... I did my A2s last year, and the first thing I would do after my maths exams would be to get on the forums to find out what you guys thought and to put my mind at ease, my whole class would rush up to our maths room to get it up on the big screen.

I can't imagine the time you put into doing those things, so I'd just like to say a massive thanks, tbh, your solutions and that were some of the best revision aides I ever had... Thanks Arsey, and all the best.

Reply 126

All I need is the paper to check some of the answers myself.

To be honest, Edexcel mark schemes are sometimes useless and have really bad mathematics in them. The exam paper writer and mark scheme producers does not have strong mathematics backgrounds at all.

Reply 127

Original post by casperyc

To be honest, Edexcel mark schemes are sometimes useless and have really bad mathematics in them. The exam paper writer and mark scheme producers does not have strong mathematics backgrounds at all.

This simply isn't true.

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Original post by Mr M

This simply isn't true.

Just an example:

https://community.tes.com/threads/i-do-not-like-this-new-gcse-9-1-question.733177/

https://community.tes.com/threads/overthinking.735216/

Just a couple thoughts and examples of what I feel about this exam board.
But I am originally from Shanghai and we use the mastery approach. So we have solid maths tests.

Reply 129

Original post by casperyc

Specimen materials are not "proper" exams.

Reply 130

Original post by Mr M

Specimen materials are not "proper" exams.

Sure. But like I said, just some examples. :smile:

I can see the UK is trying hard to do mastery, but the secondary "maths" is still not very "solid" or "mathematical".

I feel that sometimes exam boards give too many marks to students, allowing "bad" maths. That's not very helpful in a supportive way how maths should be taught.

Maths is a logic subject with solid arguments. In that Pythagoras question I posted, I strongly felt that in the UK, geometry proof was not done at all or done very poorly across the nation. The starting point of that question should really be to prove the big shape is a square.

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Original post by Mr M

Our department uses old KS3 SAT maths papers and recently students had a test. We noticed that nearly 15% of student had already done them as practice papers.

And some parents find/print for them. I believe we now live in a world we simply cannnot control these things.

Edexcel should really do some model solutions, formal written good mathematical solutions to help students' learning, even if they are simply copying.
We certainly had students COPYING "model" answers from other sources based on actual papers from exam boards.

Just some thoughts.

Reply 132

tanno1992

Whaaat?
It's the end of an era!
The frantic refresh to see if Arsey has posted is over.
Pointless move from Edexcel IMO.
Thanks Arsey for all the solutions over the years.

Reply 133

tanno1992

Original post by casperyc

Totally spurious claim.
Where is your evidence for this?

Reply 134

Shelly12334

Original post by T17MA

Has anyone got the paper?

Posted from TSR Mobile

Have u found the paper? If so could u please send it to me.

Reply 135

anonwinner

So you'd rather appease the exam boards than help thousands of students?

This is sad...

Reply 136

TeeEm

Original post by anonwinner

So you'd rather appease the exam boards than help thousands of students?

This is sad...

this what a responsible adult does

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