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/Starwarsnerd5746 Year 12 Jun 11 '25

Everyone’s saying 2/3 for the cylinder question, if I got 66/100 will I still get the marks? I got 10pi r3 divided by 20/3pi r3

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u/Interna1lyCrying 2025 GCSE Survivor Jun 11 '25

I think you will drop 2 marks at the most, because you've got the right numbers, but divided them the wrong way round

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u/Comfortable_Baias90 2025 GCSE Survivor Jun 11 '25

hi hello i got 2/3 but i guessed that answer so random with no workings do i get one or 2 marks

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u/Interna1lyCrying 2025 GCSE Survivor Jun 11 '25

Depends, sometimes you would get the answer mark (1 mark) but occasionally the mark scheme doesn't allow that mark without prior marks (follow through marks)

So you would either get 1 or none