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Top 10 Hardest GCSE Maths Questions For 2023 6
Top 10 Hardest GCSE Maths Questions For 2023 6
From the examiners report: "This question was not well answered, with many
students not using the gradient of OP as the starting point of their working. It was
common to see sqrt(17), either from the equation of the circle or from the
application of Pythagoras’ Theorem." Indeed the crucial step that many students
missed out was realizing that finding the gradient of line PO would them gradient
of the tangent (using negative reciprocal). A tangent to a circle is perpendicular to
its gradient and touches the circle at one point only. So finding gradient of PO and
using negative reciprocal would be the correct approach:
As the examiners noted: "Fully correct answers to this question were seen only
rarely. It was found to be the most challenging question on the paper. Having said
that, a significant proportion of students were able to score at least one mark for a
successful start by identifying that angle OAB is a right angle or for a correct
process to find the radius of the circle. Few students could see how to use the
coordinates of P in order to derive an equation by either using the equation of the
circle or by using Pythagoras’s Theorem. The evidence from students’ scripts
showed that more students took the former approach, quoting x 2 + y 2 = r 2 and
then substituting x = 3p, y = p, r = 8 to get an equation in p. Unfortunately, the lack
of of use of correct notation, that is a pair of brackets, meant that many students
wrote 3p 2 + p 2 = 82 instead of (3p)² + p 2 = 8². These students usually went on to
simplify their equation to 4p 2 = 82 . "
A similar question to the first one, but with some extra steps. Here is the mark
scheme:
Histograms are one of the hardest topics in maths, particularly when it comes to
finding the mean, interquartile range and estimating for some value. Here is how to
do this question:
The examiners mentioned: "This question was not well answered, with a high
number of non-attempts and very few students having any success. Almost all
students did not know the correct method to proceed with this question. A few
students expanded the brackets correctly. The common error was to change the
sign of the right hand side of the equation. " Indeed a very difficult maths question,
here are the answers:
Quite a challenge? Wait until you reach Questions 3 and 2! Here are the answers:
This will make many students scratch their heads. Here are the answers:
Probabilities can be very difficult. This challenging question definitely made you
think. Here are the answers for it:
As the examiners report states: "The majority of students were successful in part
(a), although some failed to actually show the required calculation, stating only
that AC was –3b and AD was 6a + 7.5b Little accurate working was seen in part (b),
although a reasonable number of students picked up one mark for stating that BC
was ka + 3b or that BD was ka + 6a + 7.5b". This definitely is a difficult vector
question, so here are the answers:
This is perhaps the most difficult vector question I've seen in GCSEs. Here is the
mark scheme for it:
Here is a hint:
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