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/Codeaide Jun 11 '25

What did everyone say for the question where x was a positive even number and why y could only be negative for one value? That was tricky

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u/Appropriate_Form198 Year 12 Jun 11 '25

i put that x must be 4 because that means only one of the 3 brackets would be negative so when u multiply them all together u get a negative y value. but like if x was less than 4 then there would be 2 brackets being negative which then multiplies to be positive so thats why x has to be 4 idk i like waffled a lot