How did everyone find the AEA Maths today? (Edexcel AEA Maths 2025)

I thought it was a really nice paper and enjoyed the questions.
The first integration by substitution and modulus graph questions were good. I liked the inverse trig equation too - I had seen questions like it before in past papers and it was relatively tame I thought.
The stats question was also pretty good - I worked backwards from the expression in terms of a to get the sin^2(2x). Did anyone else get no valid solutions for a?
I enjoyed both the vector question and the final differential equation one - I thought they were both really clever.
Let me know what you guys thought 😁

I found the paper to be super good. But i got only 1 value for a as i rejected the other due to it contradicting the range of possible a found in the previous part.

I got a=(8-√34)/15
I knew it was a dodgy surd but I checked the crap outta it

I thought it was pretty chill! I got two answers for a, it was in the interval (0,1) so I said both are acceptable. I found the last part of question 7 so hard tho

My maximum value of a was 1/5 I think - cause the sin^2 had to be less than 1 and gave me an inequality that led to a <= 1/5 so I rejected both of the values of a I got though I might be wrong

Yeah, I remember being puzzled by it for a while but I noticed some nice things about the original equation and the coordinates and it all worked out in the end - tricky though

questions 7 took loads of subbing stuff in but i checked it on desmos and got it. a=sqrt(3e) b and c = e^(+-3e^-1.5)

did anyone get the radius of the circle as 4.5 for the vector question

Yeah, I just found the length of the midpoint of AC to X, doubted myself a little cause it was 4 marks but I barely did any extra work

Hoping that would be a style point

yeah i did the same cold af i think i did well on this paper. anyone other answers u wanna share?

16/pi for the first integration by parts q
Root 21 over something for the inverse trig question

yeah i got both of these too.

what course are you taking this exam for?