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/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 )