[Will.]

So annoyed with it! The first few questions were decent but then it just got ridiculous, I messed up badly! Its so annoying as I got a C on mock which was last years paper, and I think I've got a D this time round! Dreading the calculator paper! Exdecel can burn in hell!

The answers got leaked for the paper which makes it unfair

This years papers have been messed up and weird! The RE paper had questions not on the syllabus so the school complained, and so did the Core Science Biology paper.

[Pete.]

I've seen the orange sweets or something like that question, did you do that paper lol

[Will.]

yeah that was the worst, the questions were nothing really like past papers, the first 8 out of 25 questions were ok.

[Pete.]

Bummer. Don't they move the grade boundaries around for harder papers?

[JoshBB]

I saw the #EdexcelMaths hashtag trending and it sounded horrible. Here's hoping there's low boundaries

[reece(:]

Best of luck.

[Will.]

Originally Posted by Petemitch

Bummer. Don't they move the grade boundaries around for harder papers?

yeah, I sorted of counted what I think I got right and it was 25, I counted 38 but then I realised I messed up on a few, so I've taking about 11 marks off.

2013 grade was 23 for a C and I don't remember anything bad about that, so hopefully it will be 20 for a C.

[Will.]

Thanks! Its quite good as teachers have predicted what will be on calculator on Monday by looking at the one on Thursday, If I aim for about 30-33 on Mondays one and Calcuotor ones are easier then I should have secured a C.

Im defo not a B/A student with Maths

Hopefully I've got:
Eng Lang - A
Eng Lit - B/A
Maths - C
Science - B/C
Geog - C
Business - C
IT - C
RE - B

[Pete.]

Originally Posted by Willbrick1999

yeah, I sorted of counted what I think I got right and it was 25, I counted 38 but then I realised I messed up on a few, so I've taking about 11 marks off.

2013 grade was 23 for a C and I don't remember anything bad about that, so hopefully it will be 20 for a C.

Good luck! Hopefully the other paper is good

[Will.]

Originally Posted by Petemitch

Good luck! Hopefully the other paper is good

Thank you! Wish Maths exam was more general life maths like for example:

"You and you children are going on a train: You get a 60% discount and your 2 children get 1/3 off their fare, the prices are..."

That was a question last year, I like those sort of ones.

[RichardG]

In my year it was quite an easy paper and I got quite a low score overall like 110/200 or something yet I still got an A. So if it's a harder paper then the grade boundaries could be even lower. I found in all exams I did much better in the real thing than mocks, the actual exam markers seem to be a lot kinder in giving marks for stuff like working out and basically just for trying... you might do better than you think.

[Jason.]

I know, I heard.

I'm a Math's teacher and exams co-coordinator, and I saw the paper on Thursday, after everyone finished the exam, and it looked messed up.
My class were complaining about it.

One thing I noticed is how quickly the questions got hard. I've always told my students questions 1 to 18 are really easy, and always aim to get 100% in the first 18 questions to secure a B grade. With this year's paper, the questions began to get hard at around question 11 to 12.

What was up with the constant 5 mark questions too? There were like four of them.

Not to mention, where the hell was the Simultaneous Equation question?
Bar the November 2014 paper, I've never seen a non-calculator paper without a question on it.

I think the grade boundaries will be lower. But it all depends on how difficult the Calculator Paper is.

With November 2014, the Non-Calculator was hard, but the Calculator was much easier, so the same pattern might occur with June 2015.

[reece(:]

Justice 4 the simultaneous equations</3 I loved doing those.

[Pete.]

I remember Simultaneous equations and they were like 6 marks, slay

[Jason.]

Originally Posted by reece(:

Justice 4 the simultaneous equations</3 I loved doing those.

Same.
It's a pain teaching it, though. The thick ones never understand it, no matter how many times you explain.

[Jarrod]

This is why WJEC is the best exam board.

[JoshBB]

Simultaneous Equations I found difficult at first but are actually not that bad tbh

[Jason.]

Originally Posted by JoshBB

Simultaneous Equations I found difficult at first but are actually not that bad tbh

Same. I remember when I was in Year 10, way back. And I used to look at them and think "Dafuq is this?".

They look harder than they are. When I got taught it, I understood it really well.

It's easy if you know which operation to use.

[reece(:]

Originally Posted by BB6

Same.
It's a pain teaching it, though. The thick ones never understand it, no matter how many times you explain.

Do you teach the ...1 ...2 ...3 method?

[Daniel.]

The only exam I didn't get a C or above on

Always found it horrible

Good luck

[Jason.]

Originally Posted by reece(:

Do you teach the ...1 ...2 ...3 method?

The what method?

[RichardG]

I can't even remember what simultaneous equations were.

[reece(:]

Originally Posted by BB6

The what method?

Numbering them and taking one away from the other or muliplying the equations or what not to make them the same

[Daniel.]

welp @ bb6 dragging people thick at maths (like me)

sack ha

[Jason.]

Originally Posted by reece(:

Numbering them and taking one away from the other or muliplying the equations or what not to make them the same

Oh yeah, that's what I use.

And sometimes I teach the Elimination method, if people don't get the first method.