Edexcel Maths 2017 Exam - TODAY

Octopus · May 25, 2017

My daughter sat a maths GCSE paper today - she is a maths genius BUT the last question got her completely flummoxed...

She tried explaining it to me .... and her mum but she was wasting her time

This link adds a few thoughts:

Edexcel Maths 2017 Exam Sparks Hilarious Twitter Reactions From GCSE Students | HuffPost UK - http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/edexcel-maths-2017-exam_uk_5926ac07e4b061d8f81f7713

Any of you got kids who sat this exam?

SparkyChick · May 26, 2017

No, but I'm interested in what the question was

westward10 · May 26, 2017

I don't know a single parent who doesn't think their child is a genius.

Octopus · May 26, 2017

^^ this isn't about my daughter being a genius, it's about a whole school being unable to answer a question ..... So are they all dummies ?

SparkyChick · May 26, 2017

Without knowing the question it's difficult to say

Much of it depends on interpretation and being able to pull the facts out of the waffle they seem to like using. If you struggle with that, you're done for. It's one of the things I've always struggled with in maths exams.

Tell me what you want me to do and I can do it, expect me to extract which formula or method and it can all go a bit wrong.

I'm really just interested in seeing whether the exams are getting easier compared to say the last O-Level and the first GCSE maths exam (I sat both and I know GCSEs were not as hard as O-Levels).

westward10 · May 27, 2017

Murdoch said:
^^ this isn't about my daughter being a genius, it's about a whole school being unable to answer a question ..... So are they all dummies ?

Wasn't calling anyone a dummy. I have a niece and fellas I work with who all have kids that are more intelligent, popular etc.. than all the other kids when in fact they are just normal, no different . It wasn't meant to offend.

telectrix · May 27, 2017

Murdoch said:
^^ this isn't about my daughter being a genius, it's about a whole school being unable to answer a question ..... So are they all dummies ?

you're going to have to obtain the question for us, murdoch. one way or another.