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THANK YOU THIS WAS PERFECT, wish people would just stop picking random irrelevant complaints to justifying there anger. The paper 3 leak and difficulty are the only valid ‘complaints’ but even then people who are still angry about this don’t understand how grade boundaries work ffs

THANK YOU THIS WAS PERFECT, wish people would just stop picking random irrelevant complaints to justifying there anger. The paper 3 leak and difficulty are the only valid ‘complaints’ but even then people who are still angry about this don’t understand how grade boundaries work ffs

Tbh I think the notation for a riemann sum on paper 2 was a bit ****, but it is how it appeared in the spec.

It’s also on the AQA specification and has been in the practice papers. It shouldn’t have been a surprise really for it to be there in that notation, especially if on the edexcel specification.

Tbh I think the notation for a riemann sum on paper 2 was a bit ****, but it is how it appeared in the spec.

i dont know what ' riemann sum' but if its the big E sigma notation thing, I think that was fine because that was literally in chapter 3 of the pure year 2 book, I will say that ugly delta symbol that came up tho, that was trash, even tho as you said it was in the spec, it was not in the book at all. Unless ' riemann sum' is the delta symbol in which case I am so sorry

THANK YOU THIS WAS PERFECT, wish people would just stop picking random irrelevant complaints to justifying there anger. The paper 3 leak and difficulty are the only valid ‘complaints’ but even then people who are still angry about this don’t understand how grade boundaries work ffs

i dont know what ' riemann sum' but if its the big E sigma notation thing, I think that was fine because that was literally in chapter 3 of the pure year 2 book, I will say that ugly delta symbol that came up tho, that was trash, even tho as you said it was in the spec, it was not in the book at all. Unless ' riemann sum' is the delta symbol in which case I am so sorry

WORD, I was quite hot headed about the exams after I done them too but as the holidays progressed I soon realised that, while these tests were stupidly hard (for me and many others) the grade boundaries will reflect that. So there is little to worry about .

I don't get the complaining about the symbol. It could have been $\text{bananas} \to 0$ and it wouldn't have mattered. it might have been in the book but as maths, the notation is poor and unclear. Think this has been discussed here before but you'd think the notation at A-level shouldn't be idiosyncratic and strictly standard to avoid confusion.

What makes you think the grade boundaries will decrease? Did you not see the difficulty of paper 3 last year and yet the grade boundaries were still quite high.
paper 1 and paper 2 harder than last year paper 3 easier than last year and leaked meaning the grade boundaries will stay quite similar give or take 3 marks. Not to mention there were some mentions of a paper 2 leak and also the fact that further mathematicians sitting the exam will also raise the grade boundaries.There is a lot to worry about people's medicine and uni places or degrees are on the line.
In the past when this has happend with c4 leaks the grade boundaries stayed exactly the same so i woudn't be too optimistic.Edexcel could easily decrease each grade boundary by 3 marks dosent make that much of a difference the cheaters still have a much greater advantage and most people would have missed their grades

You thought last years grade boundaries were high O_o? So being able to lose 116 marks and still get an A is high? Literally you could get a third of the A level wrong and still get an A. I always thought that was on the lower end

I would completely agree - if you compare the boundaries to the old specification, they are a god send! I feel like a realistic boundary will probably be 75% for A* and 65% for A

So you think the boundaries for an A are going to increase by 11 marks from 184 to 195?

I would completely agree - if you compare the boundaries to the old specification, they are a god send! I feel like a realistic boundary will probably be 75% for A* and 65% for A

I don't know if you guys tried the sample assessment material that edexcel provided. They were meant to reflect what the actual tests were going to be like but those who did them will know that they were nothing like the actual papers. I fully agree that the papers are meant to be hard and I did do further maths AS so you could say I had an advantage but still, the sample material threw so many people off.
Many of my friends felt confident about maths because the sample material was very straightforward but after the exams we all felt as if we hadn't done anything like that before.
This situation was made worse by the fact their were very few past papers to look at.
I just think it was wrong for edexcel to provide sample assessment material which is nothing like the actual paper.

they did the same thing for Edexcel physics. paper 1 was a nightmare.

take a shot for every question about a-level maths.