Below you will find out “Best guess” papers for the higher and foundation tiers for the LINEAR Edexcel Mathematics GCSE paper 2 after half term.
Just to reiterate what I’ve put on the front page of the paper, specifically the Higher tier – the paper is made up of topics that we believe are worth revising prior to paper 2 (Edexcel Linear) and as with all these things there are no guarantees and are our “Best Guess” for all higher tier students. This is meant to act as a practice paper and not meant to emulate the real thing – the order of the questions are not intended to act as a guide as to the level of difficulty as we’re approaching this in such a way that anything less than 100% means they need to do some flipping work!
As our focus has and will always be those tricky borderline students – we know that we shouldn’t try to be “all things to all people” so are focussing on what we know, and this why we have specifically left out those top end topics – we have however found that these top end kids need to “nail” these topics to gain access to the higher grades. It is these students that SHOULD get 100% without breaking into too much of a sweat and hopefully the practice will stop them making those silly mistakes that lose them precious marks.
The foundation paper is much more straight forward!
SOLUTIONS (I don’t do “markschemes”, as such but you will find written solutions)
You will find solutions for the higher tier HERE which have been done by my Twitter BFF, the marvellous Emma Bell and you can find solutions for the Foundation tier from Ben Tanner by clicking HERE.
I apologise in advance for any mistakes but have tried to eliminate them and will correct any that I find.
NEW!! VIDEO SOLUTIONS:
The amazing Dawn Denyer has put together some video solutions to the Higher tier paper and you can get them using the below links:
Thank you so much for doing this so quickly. I’ve only recently jones this page & ive found your revision mats & lists of F/H questions invaluable.
I work part time in a couple of local colleges & I’m a private tutor. I have very little contact time with the maths dept at the colleges do everything you do helps me keep up to date.
Many thanks
Sara Allen
Thanks for doing this.
Thank you so much Mel!!!
Hi
This is so helpful. Thanks a lot for sharing.
Regards
SZ
Wow A Great Help for students and their teachers. Saves lot of time and good to see other colleagues ideas.
Thank you for the really useful paper. We have created some written Solutions for Foundation @
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B52SDm29I9XyYXNFdnVLdGlJOU0/view?usp=sharing
Which may be useful and save you time!
Great help!
Updated (corrected) solutions to HIGHER here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/tn2xyhyug1wsev9/Best%20Guess%20Higher%20SOLUTIONS%20EBe%20v2.pdf?dl=0
Any clues for AQA maths paper 2?
Sorry Trevor no but there are a few doing the rounds on Twitter.
do you have the answers for your foundation questions as I need to mark my answers and I cant find any answers for them ?
There is a link on the blog post above
I’m looking for the AQA Higher Best Guess paper but don’t seem to be able to find it. Could anyone help please?
Thanks
I’m afraid I only do one for Edexcel – its the board we use at school and whilst the content of the specs are the same I wouldnt want to offer any “Best guesses” when it came to the actual exam – I only do “what I know”
thank you very very much for sharing these
Thank you very much for this paper. I don’t suppose you have the mark scheme/answers for the other Best Guess Paper 2H Edexcel 2016. The first question is: Use your calculator to work out (square root of 7056)/0.35*12.8
Thanks
Afraid not Olivia … Unless it was a JustMaths one??
it is a very good website
thanks alot for this!
May god bless you
Thanks for these papers. Very useful. Is there any answers for the higher paper? Link above not working.
Oh … I’ll have a look when I’m home.
I may be stupid but do you have the mark scheme for both these papers?!
Hey where are the mark schemes? I can’t find them…
I have updated the blog post with a little subheading saying SOLUTIONS as I don’t produce formal markschemes. click on the links.
Where are the answers for the best guess foundation! I hate that there is very little for foundation out there I am sorry but we matter to!
There were links in the comments above – I have now updated the blog post with SOLUTIONS for both tiers.
Do you have a mark shmeme for this
There are links to “solutions” in the above blog post. Mel
Thank you every much for this paper my exam is tomorrow
Hi there! This is great thank you so much for taking all the time to do it. I wondered if you had something similar for the non calculator paper?
We don’t do a best guess for paper 1 – that’s all it would be is a guess. Paper 2 is put together after the first exam is sat.
Couple of mistakes on foundation paper answers Ben!
There could well be … I didn’t do them! 😈
hi was this guess paper accurate
is there one for 2017 edexcel maths higher
cheers
Hi
As this is a new GCSE in Summer 2017 I would suggest that any best guess is going to be very much a guess and not even an educated one! Not sure what I’ll be producing for our students between the 2nd and 3rd exams.