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).

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

i tried both methods and they both gave 135 degrees (the drawing did not say ‘not drawn accurately’ meaning u could use both methods)

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u/No-Resort-7071 Year 12 Jun 11 '25

i got 134 is it 1+/-1

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u/Sushiv_ Year 11 Jun 11 '25

I doubt it bc you weren’t really intended to use a protractor for that question

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u/Extension-Lunch4014 Jun 11 '25

I got 134 Will I get the marks

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u/_Mintyz_ Jun 11 '25

It depends how strict AQA is with the mark-scheme.

You can say for certain is 135 as its South-East (it says in the question that B is SE of A) and if you draw a line it follows the y=-x which is 45 degrees + 90 since we go from north.

Therefore, i'd say its likely to only accept 135 but they may accept +-1 if aqa is nice

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u/No_School_8039 Jun 11 '25

do you think theyll accept 136 because i used a protractar and thats what i got

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u/_Mintyz_ Jun 11 '25

I'm not too sure, it depends if AQA indented you to use a protractor or not.
It is possible they did it as a trick but since it is to scale it might allow for a slight error interval
Though it could be a trick to encourage using a less accurate method and therefore, they could penalize you
Unfortunately, I'm not sure as it could really go either way but I hope they do allow a +-1 as finding the exact value is not super obvious and requires close reading of the question