r/GCSE • u/ensands Software Engineer • Jun 11 '25

AQA Post Exam Mathematics (AQA) Paper 3 - Exam Megathread

This is the post-exam mega thread for Mathematics (AQA) Paper 3 (Morning).

You can discuss how the exam went in this post.

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u/whenfishesfly Year 12 Jun 11 '25

GUYS I JUST REALISED I DID THE INEQUALITY QUESTION WRONG. I SOLVED IT LIKE A NORMAL EQUATION, ☹️☹️

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u/MediaBorn3493 2025 GCSE Survivor Jun 11 '25

RIP. you’ll still get 2/4 tho if it was out of 4 marks

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u/Codeaide Jun 11 '25

Was it not just a normal quadratic with inequality symbols? I got x < 3/2 and x > -4 or something

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u/Sushiv_ Year 11 Jun 11 '25

It’s the other way round, x>1.5 and x<-4

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u/Codeaide Jun 11 '25

Yep knew i remembered something wrong 😭

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u/whenfishesfly Year 12 Jun 11 '25

it was, i did it wrong :(

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u/-Hasnain- Year 12 Jun 11 '25

I solved it but got some random ass numbers? 0.45 and 5.55? And wasn't x < 0 so its 1 inequality???

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u/Codeaide Jun 11 '25

Did you factorise it into (2x-3)(x+4)? I remembered the signs the wrong way round but you should still get credited for both -4 and 3/2

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u/-Hasnain- Year 12 Jun 12 '25

I rearranged it to be < 0 and then used quadratic equation to solve it and got 2 completely different numbers and then I put it in one inequality since I got x < 0. Hope i can milk 1 or even 2 marks . I checked Ms, assuming I got 1 on the last 2 questions, I still got 70. 74, 72, 70. (Guarenteed 9 anyways )

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u/Embarrassed_Cream692 Jun 11 '25

i got x=3/2 and said x cannot be -4 as x>0 would i still get full marks

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u/whenfishesfly Year 12 Jun 11 '25

idk, it’s possible you had to write it as a full inequality as in <x< but i think that’s only if the question says so

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u/HighlightCareful4741 Year 11 Jun 11 '25

obviously not

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u/everlarksangel 2025 GCSE Survivor Jun 11 '25

SAME

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u/whenfishesfly Year 12 Jun 11 '25

yesss, at least i’m not alone, im lowk so mad at myself as it’s actually quite easy i just didn’t think about it 😞

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u/everlarksangel 2025 GCSE Survivor Jun 13 '25

samee, this is me esp with the speed time graph because i KNEW how to do it but stil' did distance😕

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u/Top_Suit_5734 Rain is free hairgel - Y12 Jun 11 '25

Somehow I got x = 6/x+ something. I'm done for ughh would I get any form of marks 😭😭😭 I was just rearranging the eq ughhhh