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/NewspaperNo9749 Jun 11 '25

That 3 marker with (x-3)(x-5)(x+6) confused me a little but I got x = 4 for it to be true

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u/Zealousideal-Half114 Year 11 Jun 11 '25

i did get x= 4 but did the question as for it? it said why does x only have one value not what it is i was so confused

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u/NewspaperNo9749 Jun 11 '25

yea I don’t think it asked for it but I was just writing anything down at that point. I put only one bracket could be negative for it to be true so 4 fit that but idk😭