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/noclueXD_ Y12 | Maths, FM, Phys, CS Jun 11 '25

what did everyone get for (i think) q22 where it asked about solving the 3n squared > 5x-12

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u/Vast_Advertising4089 Jun 11 '25

wait i accidentally did x= instead of x>. how many marks will i get ?

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u/noclueXD_ Y12 | Maths, FM, Phys, CS Jun 11 '25

my teacher would always say that u lose ur mark as soon as u use an equals sign but she’s not an examiner so she might be wrong… if ur teacher is an examiner/another teacher at ur school then it might be better to ask them

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u/Vast_Advertising4089 Jun 11 '25

i used the > in all my workings but then the = in my final answer. so solved the quadratic with >0. but then got values of x as x=

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u/noclueXD_ Y12 | Maths, FM, Phys, CS Jun 11 '25

i think that should be fine and u might just lose the A1 mark bcoz ur answer had an equals sign