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this paper was not representative of how other past papers have looked in the past, the questions were abstract and difficult.
anne supported: PETITION FOR EDEXCEL TO STOP MOCKING THEIR CANDIDATES.I'm a maths teacher. I did the paper with my colleagues yesterday. It is the first paper I've ever done that I couldn't complete in time. An A Level paper usually takes me 55-90 minutes. There was no point in the paper that I could take confidence in an answer. There were many incidents where not getting the solution to part a made part b inaccessible. The question structure disadvantaged average and weak students- eg if you could not access the radians question, you couldn't do the Newton Raphson. This means if you have insecure knowledge in some areas, you may not get the marks for areas of secure knowledge. Time saving 'tricks' eg use of symmetry in sin function disproportionately benefit further maths candidates. The differential equation was unnecessarily fiddly and full of pitfalls- an average student could not gave done that question (if they could at all) in 11 minutes for the 11 marks. The only other time I have complained about a paper, the only complaint Edexcel upheld was that they'd used deliberately obscure product notation for a simple integration. Imagine then mu surprise that they've done it again! Luckily I think most teachers teach it now after we were bitten last time. Students found this exam demoralising and stressful. It didn't need to be this bad, and it cannot possibly test across the ability range. Weak students will have given up based on this experience. Does anyone actually test run these papers? What is the quality control process???
Emily supported: PETITION FOR EDEXCEL TO STOP MOCKING THEIR CANDIDATES.After question 6 what even was the paper about
Jared supported: PETITION FOR EDEXCEL TO STOP MOCKING THEIR CANDIDATES.that shi was genuinely written by benjamin netanyahu himself
honor supported: PETITION FOR EDEXCEL TO STOP MOCKING THEIR CANDIDATES.What’s the point in a show me question if you can’t complete part b and c of the question without part a?
Edward supported: PETITION FOR EDEXCEL TO STOP MOCKING THEIR CANDIDATES.Not good when students leaving exam in tears!
Patricia supported: PETITION FOR EDEXCEL TO STOP MOCKING THEIR CANDIDATES.Someone literally fainted in the exa
m and that shows
bandor supported: PETITION FOR EDEXCEL TO STOP MOCKING THEIR CANDIDATES.To those saying “I found it easy” or “I’ll still get an A*” this clearly isn’t about you.
The issue isn’t whether some students could do it. It’s whether the paper was accessible for the wider cohort. The overwhelming consensus is that it was unusually difficult and time-pressured. A paper can still be unfair even if the strongest students perform well.
This is about the students who genuinely struggled despite being well prepared. The paper was accessible only to those able to spot unconventional methods quickly under extreme time pressure, not to the average student sitting A Level Maths.
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