WJEC Unit 1 Maths As Level Discussion 15 May 2024

I think it was much meaner than the past papers. I think I’ll get an A but maybe not full ums (which was my goal). Everyone in my school came out of it unsettled. There were some really nice questions and some where it was hard to figure out how to start. Idk if that means the boundaries will go any lower since everyone I’ve seen says they don’t think it went great.
What did you guys get for an and b in the binomial?

I had no idea for the binomial question or the last one, How were we meant to figure out the gradient of the tangents

Half the paper was good, the rest however. The binomial question was something else and the circle tangents through the origin.

I think it was much meaner than the past papers. I think I’ll get an A but maybe not full ums (which was my goal). Everyone in my school came out of it unsettled. There were some really nice questions and some where it was hard to figure out how to start. Idk if that means the boundaries will go any lower since everyone I’ve seen says they don’t think it went great.
What did you guys get for an and b in the binomial?

Pretty sure the grade boundaries are more than likely to go down a bit with how hard it iwas, it is the WJEC though so you never know.

Pretty sure the grade boundaries are more than likely to go down a bit with how hard it iwas, it is the WJEC though so you never know.

Half the paper was good, the rest however. The binomial question was something else and the circle tangents through the origin.

The last question was awful 💀 I didn’t get an answer, I put a bunch of formulas down and tried some numbers but I just couldn’t get it. I mean if it was the ‘tangents’ on (0,0) and going through C wouldn’t that technically mean any angle because 0,0 is in the circle?! Unless we had to use the middle of the circle. But then we had to find out the coordinates for them?
Honestly no clue. For binomial I got like a= 0.5 and b=-224 or something. Don’t think it’s right.
Also what was the surds fraction cause I tried multiplying it out with its conjugate but it didn’t come out to what they said 😭

Nah, the good half was still quite tricky, harder than the 2018 and 2019 papers

The last question was awful 💀 I didn’t get an answer, I put a bunch of formulas down and tried some numbers but I just couldn’t get it. I mean if it was the ‘tangents’ on (0,0) and going through C wouldn’t that technically mean any angle because 0,0 is in the circle?! Unless we had to use the middle of the circle. But then we had to find out the coordinates for them?
Honestly no clue. For binomial I got like a= 0.5 and b=-224 or something. Don’t think it’s right.
Also what was the surds fraction cause I tried multiplying it out with its conjugate but it didn’t come out to what they said 😭

The last question was awful 💀 I didn’t get an answer, I put a bunch of formulas down and tried some numbers but I just couldn’t get it. I mean if it was the ‘tangents’ on (0,0) and going through C wouldn’t that technically mean any angle because 0,0 is in the circle?! Unless we had to use the middle of the circle. But then we had to find out the coordinates for them?
Honestly no clue. For binomial I got like a= 0.5 and b=-224 or something. Don’t think it’s right.
Also what was the surds fraction cause I tried multiplying it out with its conjugate but it didn’t come out to what they said 😭

i got the same for binomial i couldn’t do the last questions or the surd one either honestly think that was the worst maths paper out of all the past papers praying the grade boundaries are low😭 Also what were those log graphs

i got the same for binomial i couldn’t do the last questions or the surd one either honestly think that was the worst maths paper out of all the past papers praying the grade boundaries are low😭 Also what were those log graphs

i got the same for binomial i couldn’t do the last questions or the surd one either honestly think that was the worst maths paper out of all the past papers praying the grade boundaries are low😭 Also what were those log graphs

I reckon I could get an A but then again aim was max ums which might not be very likely. I think the questions that I did attempt I got most of them or at least marks for workings.From what I’ve seen the ones catching ppl out were: last part of the logs, last part vectors, last question and the binomial one