WJEC A-level Mathematics Unit 3 (1300U30-1) - 4th June 2024 [Exam Chat]

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WJEC A-level Mathematics Unit 3 (1300U30-1) - 4th June 2024
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Date/Time: 4 Jun/ AM
Length: 2h 30m

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Reply 1

EHackett18

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Original post by Pwca

WJEC A-level Mathematics Unit 3 (1300U30-1) - 4th June 2024
[Exam Chat]
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Introduce yourself! Let others know what you're aiming for in your exams, what you are struggling with in your revision or anything else.
Wishing you all the best of luck. :yy:

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Date/Time: 4 Jun/ AM
Length: 2h 30m
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I would argue that is the hardest maths paper they have published to date. Thoughts?

Reply 2

marvin.mark

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Original post by EHackett18

I would argue that is the hardest maths paper they have published to date. Thoughts?

yh, since the new spec yes. i cba with all the silly mistakes as well. it would have been a lot nice if the limits for q9 were not 3pi/4, etc but instead a nice integer

Reply 3

EHackett18

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Original post by marvin.mark

yh, since the new spec yes. i cba with all the silly mistakes as well. it would have been a lot nice if the limits for q9 were not 3pi/4, etc but instead a nice integer

Fully agreed. Honestly, as someone who does make obvious mistakes I’m gutted at the inclusion of the sum sign and the newton-raphson question. Kicking myself over seriously easy marks; I believe last year it was 56/120 and 2019 it was 68/120 so I’m predicting somewhere around 62/120 for the A overall. Praying lol.

Reply 4

oyhenaez

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Original post by EHackett18

Fully agreed. Honestly, as someone who does make obvious mistakes I’m gutted at the inclusion of the sum sign and the newton-raphson question. Kicking myself over seriously easy marks; I believe last year it was 56/120 and 2019 it was 68/120 so I’m predicting somewhere around 62/120 for the A overall. Praying lol.

i mean that paper was harder than 2023 so in theory grade boundaries should be lower than 2023

Reply 5

AtomicEmperor

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Original post by EHackett18

Fully agreed. Honestly, as someone who does make obvious mistakes I’m gutted at the inclusion of the sum sign and the newton-raphson question. Kicking myself over seriously easy marks; I believe last year it was 56/120 and 2019 it was 68/120 so I’m predicting somewhere around 62/120 for the A overall. Praying lol.

newton-raphson is the easiest question in there

Reply 6

Hey123321

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Was the partial fraction under A, (2x-5) or (2x+5)?

Reply 7

hiiii:)

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Original post by Hey123321

Was the partial fraction under A, (2x-5) or (2x+5)?

(2x-5)

Reply 8

Hey123321

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Original post by hiiii:)

(2x-5)

I got A = 21, B = 9 and C=-1 i think i got A wrong or no?

Reply 9

EHackett18

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If anyone has the effort, can you explain how the negative lnp was answered? I believe I integrated it correctly but was unsure because I kept getting math errors when plugging in my values due to the 2x-5 ?

Reply 10

AltasReq1

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Original post by EHackett18

If anyone has the effort, can you explain how the negative lnp was answered? I believe I integrated it correctly but was unsure because I kept getting math errors when plugging in my values due to the 2x-5 ?

When you integrate to an ln function, the bracket becomes an absolute valueI.e. ln|2x-5|

Reply 11

Jimmy3773743

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Original post by Hey123321

I got A = 21, B = 9 and C=-1 i think i got A wrong or no?

I got A was 6, B was -1 and C was -2

Reply 12

coolperson992

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Original post by Jimmy3773743

I got A was 6, B was -1 and C was -2

Same

Reply 13

Jimmy3773743

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Original post by Pwca

WJEC A-level Mathematics Unit 3 (1300U30-1) - 4th June 2024
[Exam Chat]
Welcome to the exam discussion thread for this exam.
Introduce yourself! Let others know what you're aiming for in your exams, what you are struggling with in your revision or anything else.
Wishing you all the best of luck. :yy:

General Information
Date/Time: 4 Jun/ AM
Length: 2h 30m
Good luck!
Click here to find exam discussions for other A-level subjects

That last question was horrible. I just wrote down all the arithmatic and Geometric equations hoping for the best. Also, my teacher didn't teach us summatations or whatever its called, so has no idea how to do that lol. There were a few nice questions tbf tho. Defo the hardest since like 2018

Reply 14

Jimmy3773743

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Original post by Jimmy3773743

That last question was horrible. I just wrote down all the arithmatic and Geometric equations hoping for the best. Also, my teacher didn't teach us summatations or whatever its called, so has no idea how to do that lol. There were a few nice questions tbf tho. Defo the hardest since like 2018

Like hardest in the new series of exams

Reply 15

tomk87

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did people get 11 years for the last one

Reply 16

IwanL17

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Original post by Jimmy3773743

That last question was horrible. I just wrote down all the arithmatic and Geometric equations hoping for the best. Also, my teacher didn't teach us summatations or whatever its called, so has no idea how to do that lol. There were a few nice questions tbf tho. Defo the hardest since like 2018