I’m a maths tutor and this is a terrible reflection of GCSE maths. This questions above are likely from a foundation paper where getting 100% in that paper only gives you a grade 5
As a maths tutor you should know that the majority of fail grades at GCSE maths come from those taking the foundation paper. Very few higher tier students fail the paper
Foundation has some harder questions that many people in higher would not get 100% on. You usually need around 60% in foundation to get the top grade. Bear in mind the final 10 or so questions of the foundation paper are the first 10 or so questions of the higher paper. Try this question below that appeared as Q28 in the Foundation Maths GCSE Edexcel 2018 Paper 1 recently (worth 3 marks): The size of each interior angle of a regular polygon is 11 times the size of each exterior angle. Work out how many sides the polygon has. (3) Knowing the method for this kind of question, I think a lot of promising students may struggle in forming the equations.
Yes but: 1) if you are doing higher you are 90% going to pass 2) higher is still kinda easy, none of the steps are actually difficult. Some of the geometry ones are from hell but you would still get like a 7 even if you miss all of them
@@100iqgaming 9 is 75%? God darn that’s easy as both 8 and 9 count as A* I feel ripped off man I need to be the top 10% to get an A* Top 20% for A - And idiots here easily getting 4’s and still counts as C? (Passes)? Man this world is levels of unfair-
@@mochijuice8074fyi the grades are calculated based on students' academic performance - a 9 is the top 3% of marks, so the threshold varies vastly. A 9 in history is around 86% whilst in science is 70%. Regardless, higher maths is incredibly easy to pass I think I would only need 30% to get a grade 5 Edit: I realise you might have sat GCSEs already sorry for the assumption
@99.sn5he showed question 16 at the end, which is on the end of the paper, im guessing he was showing the foundation paper where you can only get a pass and not anything higher and in return youd get easier questions. there could be a chance that the reason why alot of kids failed is because they were goven higher instead of foundation as in the higher paper the first questions were the ones which were at the end of the foundation paper
It honestly doesn’t surprise me. 167,000 students failing isn’t that bad when considering that around 5 million take the test each year, according to Google. That is around a 3 to 3.5% failure rate, and is consistent with the rate of people with severe learning disabilities. Learning disabilities are a lot more common than most people think. It’s something like 1 in 20 people barely functioning in day to day life.
There are not 5.5 million people who take maths every year. I assume you found this number on the BBC website, where the website states that there are 5.5 million total gcse entries. A gcse entry means one full gcse submitted for marking, and since most students take the EBacc, they end up choosing at least 7. The actual number of *maths* entries is around 880K, and since 167K fail, the fail rate is around 19%. That means one in five 16 year olds cant get 60% on this foundation paper, which doesn't really surprise me since i go to a public school and most people there have the cognitive ability of a hamster
@raduconstantinescu5824 I’m not British, so I have no idea how it works, and yes, I think it was the BBC numbers I found. If the failure rate is truly 19%, then something other than mental ability is wrong - most likely a mixture of educational quality and social issues. But in general, around 1 in 20 people are so “cognitively impaired” that they need help to function in day to day life. This is not tied to environmental/social issues, but rather a biological thing. When you add on social issues, then the number increases, of course, but it shouldn’t be close to 19% in a country like Britain, with seemingly functional institutions.
@bordedup546 no brother you're system failed if a twelve year old can do the test for a person in their final year no like seriously I'm from jamaica in ninth grade and I could only dream of seeing these questions in sixth grade
I did my GCSEs last May and if you look at actual AQA or Edexcel past papers in maths, they look nothing like this, they are far more complex than you made it seem, maybe the foundation tier had a few questions like this but would’ve had some tougher ones too. It’s a real challenge taking formal exams like these no matter what you sit, so hand picking a few easy one markers and making it seem like the whole exam is like that is kind of unfair.
@@MindGNR25 true, that is the whole point of foundation, but it's not correct to say that everyone who got a grade 3 or lower was sitting questions that looked like that, there are harder questions on the foundation and a large proportion of those that failed sat a higher paper or did the backup paper if they missed the official exam day, he's saying that all the hundreds of thousands of people that failed had those kind of very easy one markers, which is not true, and undermines the very hard work most people put in, and the fact that the grades change depending on what all the marks were that year.
The first half of the paper is incredibly easy, if you don’t know those questions then you deserve to fail. But it’s near the end of the paper where all the hard stuff comes out and that’s why most people get grade 3
13?! I’m in the UK and can confirm we do this for our sats (year 6 exam), GCSE is much harder than that, he isn’t showing the right paper and is spreading false information
@@Furiousfighters1 This is just the foundation paper anyways. Harder than those questions but still easy. GCSE higher paper obviously more advanced stuff, shouldn’t fail it though
I haven't looked at the entire GCSE exam yet, but I'm certain these questions aren't the most challenging ones. So I wouldn't say that it's fair to take only some of the easiest questions in the exam and judge the success of people according to them. Moreover, it's like taking just a few simple questions from the SAT and using them to judge the difficulty of the entire exam - it simply doesn't work that way and isn't a fair assessment of either the test or the students taking it. Edit: I fully agree the no 16 year olds should fail these questions as it something a 4th grade should be able to do quite easily
I do maths gcse papers while the teacher teaches the rest of the class bc I’m a nerd. These are the first few questions. They slowly get harder and then the hardest questions are at the back. The hard questions are usually something to do with graphs, and simultaneous equations are always in there somewhere (I believe)
The thing is, I’ve worked since I was 13 I’m now 30 and I can safely say I’ve never been asked any of these questions at work 😊 anyone that failed will be absolutely fine
Fr but sadly schools only care about grades, last year i didn’t graduate because i had 0,1 less on 2 subjects (physics&math) and now i need to redue a whole year (only 3 subjects tho but still..😪)
That’s not the point of maths! You won’t need algebra or Pythagoras theory in later life, but Maths teachers vital skills like logic and decision making which are definitely very important things needed in later life!
My opinion: 1. The higher paper is harder 2. Not everyone has the same intellectual ability and at the end of the day it does not matter hiw many times toy you fail (kind of) as long as you try your best, dont give up, and work towards tour goal. (Because my friend has to resit the maths exam but eneded up getting better than me.)
The thing with this is that you need a significantly higher percentage to pass foundation maths and the grade boundaries just keep increasing. Also, I’m sure some of the failing grades come from higher students who don’t manage to get a grade 5 and instantly fail.
GCSE grade boundaries aren't static, they're graded on a bell curve. A certain % of the lowest scorers will always fail, because if people do well the boundary becomes higher.
hey!! I kind of think this is for the foundation tier - for people who have special needs and have learning issues, or just don’t get maths! We should never judge others for their abilities
I go to a good school and can tell you alot of the students simply do not care. Im in set 2 and over half the students spend the lesson yapping and throwing things while having terrible grades.
It’s the students. I didn’t go to a good school yet me and a few dozen other students did really well in their studies. The rest were disruptive, disrespectful and had no interest in learning. There is nothing a teacher or school can do about that. Whether you want to learn is up to you and your family, not the school. The only person responsible for your learning is you, especially when the internet can teach you anything you want for free. Stop blaming other people and your life will improve exponentially. The 160,000 students that failed this will be voting adults in 2 years. That is absolutely terrifying.
I think all of you are missing the point. If schools and teachers put effort specifically into making learning interesting for the students, results would improve quite a good bit. I'm not saying there aren't good schools and/or teachers, but don't underestimate how much the environment itself impacts the students' learning. By the way, I'm not defending myself. I didn't go to school in England.
For people who don't understand how exam paper work,these question are usually free point and completing it will only provide you like 7 point . The harder question come after this, it where lot of studeny fail. I won't judge them if i was you since majorities of these student turn out to great in life and have high position jod. Majorities of them just have issue with numerical thing.
I havent done my gcses yet but from what ive heard its actually A LOT harder to pass a foundation than a higher. Its cuz of how easy it is. From what ive been told u need like a 40-60% on a foundation paper to get a grade 4 but for a higher paper you only need 10-25%. And im fairly sure its because of how quickly sets teach you the units. Im in year 10 and my friend whos been in bottom set maths all the way through secondary has only just learnt pythagoras theorem and ive known how to do it for 2-3 years being in top set the whole time
Don’t blame the kids. It’s never EVER their fault. It’s down to a lack of standards within teaching. If the kids get good teachers they will pass. That means actually getting the kids to engage with what they are doing, finding the real life engagements within mathematics…it’s not difficult, it just takes a teacher who is willing to work with the kids and as someone who left the teaching industry because of the lack of care I saw with other teachers in London, I am not surprised by this at all. I know that will be an unpopular opinion but it’s the truth. The pressure teachers have been put under has got to the point they have nothing left for the kids or what I witnessed, they simply do not give a crap. This HAS to change right this very moment because no child should be leaving school feeling like they are a failure. School is supposed to enrich you, inspire you, and prepare you for the real world and at the moment? It’s rare that it does.
And then you got people like this looking down on people 😭. Alright maybe this guy is joking but there are people who actually judge you by your grades and not you as a person
mainly due to a horrible education system which is further disrupted by surrounding inequalities in peoples lives which tend to make getting good grades in schools hard
In fairness.. I sucked at algebra and I have never ever used it since I did GCSE maths nearly 18 years ago. Fractions, decimals, percentages is more useful to know
You could get the last 3 questions of each paper wrong (getting 1 or 2 marks for basic working) and still easily get a 8/9. They're not meant for most students to do.
some people just struggle with maths like I didn't pass earlier this year because they mix higher with foundation and some of the questions are extremely difficult. Usually the first questions are easy because they're trying to calm you down as they know people will be nervous and naturally struggle. Calling almost 200k 16 year olds imbeciles based off a few FOUNDATION questions when you don't know their individual struggles is crazy
When you look at the foundation paper that shit is meant to be easy brother. That is not what most kids do, AND additional maths exists for the smart people. Speaking from a person doing gcse maths and additional this year
Im in year 10 and theres at least like 5 kids in my class that just don't care at all, like exery test they don't even attempt the questions so that probably translates to the gcse too.
Showing foundation paper when the hardest question on foundation is the easiest question on higher and ontop of that if you get below a grade 5 on higher you don’t get a GCSE which is probably why a lot of them failed as well as they were covid high school students is crazy work
the thing is the grade boundaries are static, it's designed so that only a certain amount of people will get top grades and viceversa for lower grades.
Even though q16 is later on, there are still usually 30somthing qs in total and even the foundation(this) paper gets harder at the end and the higher paper is harder aswell
Our mental health system is terrible thst its leaking to education so majority of people doing this have difficulty learning either from birth or via any related emotional problems via family or environment.
it’s obvious that some of the questions are gonna be easy on the test, but 90% of them don’t look like that at all. you can really tell that you’re in year 9
@yamchad4419 Ive seen papers and i wouldn't say i obviously know the answers however i already know the concept 0n how to solve them 3 years from now im fine So no i aint violating these lads obvi they got to revise for the other gcse's to Im js saying 5 years in secondary you should have atleast memorised alot of these formula's Unless they haven't revised back which would make alot of sense Plus my cousin who did his higher tier maths gcse's last yr got grade 8 & told me alot of the questions are easy if you know what ur doing But genuinely your obviously right i dont know since im only in yr 9 But try my best in maths and science its gets quite hard
@@Zeb369 There asking to simplyfy basically solve it its js 3+4 with an x behind both of them So its 3x+4x=7x But if it was times then it would be 3x×4x=12x²
yeah that’s the point mate, the easy stuff is learned when you’re younger and the hard stuff when you’re older. it’s pretty clear he didn’t show the actually difficult questions
@@Maryam-x8z2y These shouldn’t take more than 60 seconds for anyone above year 6-7. Not sure exactly how UK schools work but that was around the time I learned algebra.
Schools are only made for one type of student, put too much pressure on kids, fail to make lessons engaging, and are terrible at identifying and accomodating neurodivergent children, especially ones who might struggle to concentrate and/or with maths.
True also add the fact the maths actually gotten alot harder; this may maybe a few questions of it but before i left i heard they're moving some a level maths (and english) to gcse
One of my friends is a teacher. He said its impossible these days because at any given time you may have 2 or 3 students in a class who cant speak any english at all. Now the maths teacher has to also he an english teacher. It slows down everything and teacher has to give less attention elsewhere.
The questions that are showed are all one mark questions and these are always easier. Thats why they are only worth 1 or 2 marks. After this the questions become significantly harder and are worth 4-6 marks
I got an E in maths back when I did my GCSEs I wouldnt have been able to answer some of those questions back then. I did a course with the open university as an adult and passed with a distinction. Schools just teach you silly methods, it isnt necessarily the students fault.
That's true because when I was in school, I found it difficult, not because I was bad at maths, but the way that it was being taught in class. The school placed me in foundation because of my learning difficulties and guess what the foundation was easy, got a grade 5 straight away, finished all the papers early as well. Then I self taught myself the higher and a level maths and was able to understand it because I was learning in the way I was comfortable. Now I have a masters degree in Computer Science and aspiring to work in AI and Machine Learning which requires a good amount of maths.
I did something similar. Failed my maths and English in school, aced them in college. I genuinely think my school messed with my results, they actively made me fail one course by telling me I couldn't take it and kicked me out of the school. Came back the next day and they were asking why I missed it! I also apparently failed my geography exam despite having literally the best marks on all the mock exams in the school.
It might not be the same problem everywhere, personally as a french person I also couldn't do this as a sixteen years old. I didn't like math and I could just have grades everywhere else and pass. When you give it such little importance, when you cannot guide the students the way they need to be guided, they will just avoid what they find annoying, it's just that simple. Same with sports. They put the class at annoying hours, like early in the morning or at the end of the day when we all wanted to go home, it's easy asf to have a passing grade and the teachers lack any and all passion. So we treated sport like a joke.
Foundation math is messed up. The questions are easy but the amount you need to get right to pass is absurd. Although I have never touched any foundation papers I kinda feel everyone should just do higher because the first questions are cross over (same on both) and you only need to get them and a few more marks along the way and you already have the pass. With the grade boundaries so close together someone looking at a 4 on foundation could even get 5 or 6 on higher
Hey, getting a 60% for a grade 4 on a foundation paper doesn’t mean you’d get a 60% on a higher paper. People getting 4s in foundation aren’t now magically more likely to get a 5 in higher.
@thatdude9091 but at the same time foundation requires to get a higher percentage to get grade 4-5. The best option would be to do a higher paper and try to get 50%-60%.
@ Teachers don't put people on foundation because they hate them. If people are doing foundation, it's because they aren't likely to get a 5+ in the real paper. The best option is to get a 100% in the real paper.
Not been to school for a long time, so downloaded the 2024:paper 1:foundation to see if it was actually that easy because I thought there's no way. It was way harder and I didn't even see these questions weren't on it
my reaction to the foundation paper they be giving to the lower set students compared to the higher paper. there is a full on barrier between the difficulty of two papers and its literally so unfair. no joke the first question was smth along the lines of ordering numbers from smallest to largest. FREAKING NUMBERS. its like theyre torturing us higher students
Bro tf this is a god damn foundation paper and I’m pretty sure that those questions were at the beginning of the paper. Wait until you see the last few questions on the higher and further papers bro (I had to do both cuz I’m in set 1 at schl 😭)
We could complete the exam i sat GCSES in 2024, we were also the first year of exams without covid allowances so it was back to original grading so the grade boundaries went back up
(All data used was found using Google, if you have more reliable data, please tell me) The total number of students who took GCSEs, according to Google, was 667,340 or 5,811,790. (Not sure why it gave such a large range) If the actual number is the first value, then approximately 25% of students failed their maths GCSE in 2024. If the actual number is the second value, then it's only a 3% fail rate. (I don't think this is the case, I'll explain why in a moment) A quick Google search suggested that a GCSE is equivalent to a US high school diploma (I'm not American so correct me if that's wrong) and that the fail rate for maths over there is 20%. As a result, the 25% GCSE fail rate seems quite close to the 20% fail rate in America. The reason I doubt that the 3% fail rate is accurate is because of the similarities between the education systems in either country, which would make such a difference very surprising. TLDR, the UK maths fail rate doesn't seem too bad compared to the US's equivalent, so the UK is probably not "cooked" unless the US is also "cooked" (which is a topic for someone who knows more than me about education)
I’ve seen your SATs, they are much easier than the GCSE exams. This is Foundation tier exams which is for students who fail the Normal Higher Tier exam. They have to make it piss easy so that they somehow pass.
Bro aint no way the set 8's are doing this shit whilst I'm doing quadratics💀😭 Just did my Yr10 mocks and there where ppl full on SOBBING in the exam. Fair enough if your doing higher paper but the foundation tier are clearly clapped 🙏🏾😂
Gcse is split into 2 categories, foundation and higher. Foundation is s lot easier but you get capped at grade 5. These might be foundation but I'm doing higher mocks. From what I've heard the foundation people are really stupid but the higher questions can be unfathomable sometimes
These questions are from a foundation paper. I am in year 9 and I am doing higher, and I think this doesn't really represent the UK GCSE properly. Most people do higher.
As much as i agree😂 i think the only thing ive used from high school at all is basic math, percentages and basic English everything they teach is almost useless
I showed my 11 year old sister this and she answered it easily then I sent it to my Yr 7 cousin and he said that's that's the maths they do after Sat's in Yr 6...even Sat's were harder bruv
"What kind of imbecility, Lack of cognitive ability" Fire words tbh 🔥
latin based words, could understand everything. because it looked more like italian
I laughed so hard at that
This is MF DOOM
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You're... Actually, I don't think I have enemies because of irrelevant topics
This is a foundation paper, wait till you look at a higher paper, which still starts off quite easy, but does escalate in difficulty
Yeah but it's still HARDER to fail
Even the higher paper is easy
The people failing were doing this paper.
Yeah I just did the higher tier in Yr 10 and I knew how to do every question@tomtom101_
I physically cannot comprehend people FAILING foundation paper.
I’m a maths tutor and this is a terrible reflection of GCSE maths. This questions above are likely from a foundation paper where getting 100% in that paper only gives you a grade 5
As a maths tutor you should know that the majority of fail grades at GCSE maths come from those taking the foundation paper. Very few higher tier students fail the paper
That’s true, but people fail higher too.
Real I gave my exam a few months and this such a horrible representation of the difficulty
Yeah because the foundation paper is piss easy. You should be getting 100%
Foundation has some harder questions that many people in higher would not get 100% on. You usually need around 60% in foundation to get the top grade. Bear in mind the final 10 or so questions of the foundation paper are the first 10 or so questions of the higher paper.
Try this question below that appeared as Q28 in the Foundation Maths GCSE Edexcel 2018 Paper 1 recently (worth 3 marks):
The size of each interior angle of a regular polygon is 11 times the size of each exterior angle. Work out how many sides the polygon has. (3)
Knowing the method for this kind of question, I think a lot of promising students may struggle in forming the equations.
You gotta state the differences between foundation and higher papers
Yes but:
1) if you are doing higher you are 90% going to pass
2) higher is still kinda easy, none of the steps are actually difficult. Some of the geometry ones are from hell but you would still get like a 7 even if you miss all of them
@ damn I didn’t know that
I took IGCSE and Cambridge exam board
Where to get an A you need 80%
@@mochijuice8074 so on normal higher a 9 is 75% , and also im talking about passing which is getting a C
@@100iqgaming 9 is 75%? God darn that’s easy as both 8 and 9 count as A*
I feel ripped off man
I need to be the top 10% to get an A*
Top 20% for A -
And idiots here easily getting 4’s and still counts as C? (Passes)? Man this world is levels of unfair-
@@mochijuice8074fyi the grades are calculated based on students' academic performance - a 9 is the top 3% of marks, so the threshold varies vastly. A 9 in history is around 86% whilst in science is 70%.
Regardless, higher maths is incredibly easy to pass I think I would only need 30% to get a grade 5
Edit: I realise you might have sat GCSEs already sorry for the assumption
I’m in yr 8 and these look like something I could easily do in yr 5
Those are just the first 4 questions of u acc look at the rest of the paper then it will be much more complex
@99.sn5yes
@99.sn5he showed question 16 at the end, which is on the end of the paper, im guessing he was showing the foundation paper where you can only get a pass and not anything higher and in return youd get easier questions. there could be a chance that the reason why alot of kids failed is because they were goven higher instead of foundation as in the higher paper the first questions were the ones which were at the end of the foundation paper
Maths gcse was actually kinda hard when I say it ages ago. I did higher paper and it was really tough
In turkey,definitely yes but in other countries,i cant be sure
That one edexcel GCSE circle maths question:
NAHHHH BRO, NOBODY IN MY YEAR COULD DO THAT
You just ruined my mood 😭
Even teachers couldn’t do it
That was my year, but even still that was only 5 marks on the whole paper. That would be question one on a jee
Nahhh u just brought back some ptsd for me 💀
No one at my schl could do it and majority of our yr was doing the higher paper 😭
It honestly doesn’t surprise me. 167,000 students failing isn’t that bad when considering that around 5 million take the test each year, according to Google. That is around a 3 to 3.5% failure rate, and is consistent with the rate of people with severe learning disabilities. Learning disabilities are a lot more common than most people think.
It’s something like 1 in 20 people barely functioning in day to day life.
There are not 5.5 million people who take maths every year. I assume you found this number on the BBC website, where the website states that there are 5.5 million total gcse entries. A gcse entry means one full gcse submitted for marking, and since most students take the EBacc, they end up choosing at least 7. The actual number of *maths* entries is around 880K, and since 167K fail, the fail rate is around 19%. That means one in five 16 year olds cant get 60% on this foundation paper, which doesn't really surprise me since i go to a public school and most people there have the cognitive ability of a hamster
@raduconstantinescu5824 I’m not British, so I have no idea how it works, and yes, I think it was the BBC numbers I found. If the failure rate is truly 19%, then something other than mental ability is wrong - most likely a mixture of educational quality and social issues.
But in general, around 1 in 20 people are so “cognitively impaired” that they need help to function in day to day life. This is not tied to environmental/social issues, but rather a biological thing. When you add on social issues, then the number increases, of course, but it shouldn’t be close to 19% in a country like Britain, with seemingly functional institutions.
@raduconstantinescu5824No way bro. Y'all are actually brain dead 😭😭
@raduconstantinescu5824 yet it's still one of the best education systems in the world. It could be a lot, lot worse
@bordedup546 no brother you're system failed if a twelve year old can do the test for a person in their final year no like seriously I'm from jamaica in ninth grade and I could only dream of seeing these questions in sixth grade
I did my GCSEs last May and if you look at actual AQA or Edexcel past papers in maths, they look nothing like this, they are far more complex than you made it seem, maybe the foundation tier had a few questions like this but would’ve had some tougher ones too.
It’s a real challenge taking formal exams like these no matter what you sit, so hand picking a few easy one markers and making it seem like the whole exam is like that is kind of unfair.
Foundation papers were literally so easy they only go up to grade 5 so you learn the hardest questions in like year 8
@@MindGNR25 true, that is the whole point of foundation, but it's not correct to say that everyone who got a grade 3 or lower was sitting questions that looked like that, there are harder questions on the foundation and a large proportion of those that failed sat a higher paper or did the backup paper if they missed the official exam day, he's saying that all the hundreds of thousands of people that failed had those kind of very easy one markers, which is not true, and undermines the very hard work most people put in, and the fact that the grades change depending on what all the marks were that year.
@good_morning_to_you yeah that's very true lol I understand what you're saying
Literally gonna take mine in a few months, doing higher and I got cooked on one out of three😂
Mate come on, they are not that hard
The first half of the paper is incredibly easy, if you don’t know those questions then you deserve to fail. But it’s near the end of the paper where all the hard stuff comes out and that’s why most people get grade 3
bruh... I wish my tests were these fucking easy. I had this shit at 13 and was good
These are just the first questions, they get a lot more advanced as you progress
13?! I’m in the UK and can confirm we do this for our sats (year 6 exam), GCSE is much harder than that, he isn’t showing the right paper and is spreading false information
@@Furiousfighters1 This is just the foundation paper anyways. Harder than those questions but still easy. GCSE higher paper obviously more advanced stuff, shouldn’t fail it though
@e9cw196 ohhh I’m only in year 9 but I know that doesn’t look like the actual gcse
i was 11-12
I haven't looked at the entire GCSE exam yet, but I'm certain these questions aren't the most challenging ones. So I wouldn't say that it's fair to take only some of the easiest questions in the exam and judge the success of people according to them. Moreover, it's like taking just a few simple questions from the SAT and using them to judge the difficulty of the entire exam - it simply doesn't work that way and isn't a fair assessment of either the test or the students taking it.
Edit: I fully agree the no 16 year olds should fail these questions as it something a 4th grade should be able to do quite easily
I do maths gcse papers while the teacher teaches the rest of the class bc I’m a nerd. These are the first few questions. They slowly get harder and then the hardest questions are at the back. The hard questions are usually something to do with graphs, and simultaneous equations are always in there somewhere (I believe)
@yonatan374 the hardest questions are at the back and they aren't multiple questions so get very difficult for 5 marks
The thing is, I’ve worked since I was 13 I’m now 30 and I can safely say I’ve never been asked any of these questions at work 😊 anyone that failed will be absolutely fine
Fr but sadly schools only care about grades, last year i didn’t graduate because i had 0,1 less on 2 subjects (physics&math) and now i need to redue a whole year (only 3 subjects tho but still..😪)
That’s not the point of maths! You won’t need algebra or Pythagoras theory in later life, but Maths teachers vital skills like logic and decision making which are definitely very important things needed in later life!
You literally don’t need this in your life , there’s loads of successful people aren’t good at maths , or just know basics
The foundation paper was so easy except for the higher mark questions on the second half of the paper.
The workforce don’t care about these tests bro. I failed everything, lied on my CV & never been questioned about school grades in 10 years lol.
in my A-level maths class half the class didnt know what a tangent was 😭
My opinion:
1. The higher paper is harder
2. Not everyone has the same intellectual ability and at the end of the day it does not matter hiw many times toy you fail (kind of) as long as you try your best, dont give up, and work towards tour goal. (Because my friend has to resit the maths exam but eneded up getting better than me.)
The thing with this is that you need a significantly higher percentage to pass foundation maths and the grade boundaries just keep increasing. Also, I’m sure some of the failing grades come from higher students who don’t manage to get a grade 5 and instantly fail.
these are the foundation papers, most people do the higher paper.
In my school the majority people took foundation.
@ oh well in that case idk. my school mainly did higher
@@aenameless did you go to grammar or comprehnesive
@tomtom101_ huh? idk man i just went to a public school
im most likely gonna do foundation but i have a chance
GCSE grade boundaries aren't static, they're graded on a bell curve. A certain % of the lowest scorers will always fail, because if people do well the boundary becomes higher.
hey!! I kind of think this is for the foundation tier - for people who have special needs and have learning issues, or just don’t get maths! We should never judge others for their abilities
don't judge the students! Judge the schools!
I go to a good school and can tell you alot of the students simply do not care. Im in set 2 and over half the students spend the lesson yapping and throwing things while having terrible grades.
@@CarbonMonoxide911same here
It’s the students. I didn’t go to a good school yet me and a few dozen other students did really well in their studies. The rest were disruptive, disrespectful and had no interest in learning. There is nothing a teacher or school can do about that. Whether you want to learn is up to you and your family, not the school. The only person responsible for your learning is you, especially when the internet can teach you anything you want for free. Stop blaming other people and your life will improve exponentially.
The 160,000 students that failed this will be voting adults in 2 years. That is absolutely terrifying.
I think all of you are missing the point. If schools and teachers put effort specifically into making learning interesting for the students, results would improve quite a good bit. I'm not saying there aren't good schools and/or teachers, but don't underestimate how much the environment itself impacts the students' learning.
By the way, I'm not defending myself. I didn't go to school in England.
@ that would have been helpful to mention beforehand
For people who don't understand how exam paper work,these question are usually free point and completing it will only provide you like 7 point . The harder question come after this, it where lot of studeny fail. I won't judge them if i was you since majorities of these student turn out to great in life and have high position jod. Majorities of them just have issue with numerical thing.
I failed my maths too… I did graduate as a software developer in the end so all is good
I havent done my gcses yet but from what ive heard its actually A LOT harder to pass a foundation than a higher. Its cuz of how easy it is. From what ive been told u need like a 40-60% on a foundation paper to get a grade 4 but for a higher paper you only need 10-25%. And im fairly sure its because of how quickly sets teach you the units. Im in year 10 and my friend whos been in bottom set maths all the way through secondary has only just learnt pythagoras theorem and ive known how to do it for 2-3 years being in top set the whole time
As a person who’s on my second semester of UNI, I am shocked, bamboozled and bewildered
Don’t blame the kids. It’s never EVER their fault. It’s down to a lack of standards within teaching. If the kids get good teachers they will pass. That means actually getting the kids to engage with what they are doing, finding the real life engagements within mathematics…it’s not difficult, it just takes a teacher who is willing to work with the kids and as someone who left the teaching industry because of the lack of care I saw with other teachers in London, I am not surprised by this at all. I know that will be an unpopular opinion but it’s the truth. The pressure teachers have been put under has got to the point they have nothing left for the kids or what I witnessed, they simply do not give a crap. This HAS to change right this very moment because no child should be leaving school feeling like they are a failure. School is supposed to enrich you, inspire you, and prepare you for the real world and at the moment? It’s rare that it does.
And then you got people like this looking down on people 😭. Alright maybe this guy is joking but there are people who actually judge you by your grades and not you as a person
mainly due to a horrible education system which is further disrupted by surrounding inequalities in peoples lives which tend to make getting good grades in schools hard
In fairness.. I sucked at algebra and I have never ever used it since I did GCSE maths nearly 18 years ago.
Fractions, decimals, percentages is more useful to know
Don't be scared, scroll to the bottom of a higher AQA paper. 🤭🤭
You could get the last 3 questions of each paper wrong (getting 1 or 2 marks for basic working) and still easily get a 8/9. They're not meant for most students to do.
some people just struggle with maths like I didn't pass earlier this year because they mix higher with foundation and some of the questions are extremely difficult. Usually the first questions are easy because they're trying to calm you down as they know people will be nervous and naturally struggle. Calling almost 200k 16 year olds imbeciles based off a few FOUNDATION questions when you don't know their individual struggles is crazy
When you look at the foundation paper that shit is meant to be easy brother. That is not what most kids do, AND additional maths exists for the smart people.
Speaking from a person doing gcse maths and additional this year
That’s a foundation paper, it’s actually pretty hard to fail a higher tier paper
Bro speaking premium English💀💀
I had to say it but I can’t chat I’m British too😭
As someone who passed their GCSEs in 2024 I don't get how people in my year failed tbh
How am I supposed to learn when my teacher doesn't help or understand the question either
Im in year 10 and theres at least like 5 kids in my class that just don't care at all, like exery test they don't even attempt the questions so that probably translates to the gcse too.
Showing foundation paper when the hardest question on foundation is the easiest question on higher and ontop of that if you get below a grade 5 on higher you don’t get a GCSE which is probably why a lot of them failed as well as they were covid high school students is crazy work
Love how he’s only shown 1 mark questions and didn’t show the 6 markers at the back of the paper that most people can’t do
Bottom set is wild
the thing is the grade boundaries are static, it's designed so that only a certain amount of people will get top grades and viceversa for lower grades.
Even though q16 is later on, there are still usually 30somthing qs in total and even the foundation(this) paper gets harder at the end and the higher paper is harder aswell
"Im not a judgmental person" the man says judgingly
Our mental health system is terrible thst its leaking to education so majority of people doing this have difficulty learning either from birth or via any related emotional problems via family or environment.
so fucking real
As a 14 yr old in yr 9 im genuinely concerned on wtf these man did for 5 yrs at secondary???
-LIKE BRO 4X+3X😭😭😭😭
it’s obvious that some of the questions are gonna be easy on the test, but 90% of them don’t look like that at all. you can really tell that you’re in year 9
@yamchad4419
Ive seen papers and i wouldn't say i obviously know the answers however i already know the concept 0n how to solve them
3 years from now im fine
So no i aint violating these lads obvi they got to revise for the other gcse's to
Im js saying 5 years in secondary you should have atleast memorised alot of these formula's
Unless they haven't revised back which would make alot of sense
Plus my cousin who did his higher tier maths gcse's last yr got grade 8 & told me alot of the questions are easy if you know what ur doing
But genuinely your obviously right i dont know since im only in yr 9
But try my best in maths and science its gets quite hard
well thats cus its quite obviously foundation maths
I don’t understand as an European. Are they asking to make it as short as possible? Meaning 7x
@@Zeb369
There asking to simplyfy basically solve
it its js 3+4 with an x behind both of them
So its 3x+4x=7x
But if it was times then it would be
3x×4x=12x²
GO TO THE END OF THE PAPER AND ANSWER THEM THEN
Not me in the U.K learning that in year 5
Well u didn’t learn the algerbra stuff
yeah that’s the point mate, the easy stuff is learned when you’re younger and the hard stuff when you’re older. it’s pretty clear he didn’t show the actually difficult questions
When I was in year 6 I could probably solve those in 3 minutes
i believe u can solve them just not in 3 minutes
@@Maryam-x8z2y Yeah. He can solve them in 2 minutes thats how easy they are
Exactly
@@Maryam-x8z2y These shouldn’t take more than 60 seconds for anyone above year 6-7. Not sure exactly how UK schools work but that was around the time I learned algebra.
i couldnt and im in yr 10
This is so true in foundation maths its easy to pass since the content is easy and in higher maths the pass mark is lower making it easy.
Schools are only made for one type of student, put too much pressure on kids, fail to make lessons engaging, and are terrible at identifying and accomodating neurodivergent children, especially ones who might struggle to concentrate and/or with maths.
real
True also add the fact the maths actually gotten alot harder; this may maybe a few questions of it but before i left i heard they're moving some a level maths (and english) to gcse
One of my friends is a teacher. He said its impossible these days because at any given time you may have 2 or 3 students in a class who cant speak any english at all. Now the maths teacher has to also he an english teacher. It slows down everything and teacher has to give less attention elsewhere.
Entering the workplace? When have you ever simplified fractions in your job ?
It's simple math that is expected from anyone who is mentally sane.
@ im a roofer so i do use maths to a degree snd i use percentages to work out my tax but algebra and simplifying fractions isn’t needed in 95% of jobs
@@rhudylofthouse1827 It's not about the math itself it's about the logical thinking process you learn to go through while doing it.
Damn, even those questions were given to me in year 4 and i could even answer 3 over 4 correctly.
4x+3x is classed as one of the easiest as it is usually within the first 5 questions on the easiest paper
A certain percentage are set to fail, all grades fall into a percentage. Grade 9 is the top 5% of the country for example.
Im expecting you to do a full walkthrough of a higher maths paper 2 rn bro or you oil up
I've been out of school for 10 years now and don't remember algebra. I'm an electrician now and use it every day 😂
The fact that I learnt all these when I was around 12-13 and my country follows the UK standards.
The questions that are showed are all one mark questions and these are always easier. Thats why they are only worth 1 or 2 marks. After this the questions become significantly harder and are worth 4-6 marks
As a year 8 is this seriously what GCSE’s look like? Is that not just the paper I did last ducking term??
Yk, instead of judging these students we should keep in mind that they may have learning difficulties.
Try to do the last 5 pages and then we will see who’s struggling
Of Higher tier
@justmedino1267
Frr higher is js something else
U js got to have a fully functional brain to understand higher tier maths😅
Of higher paper though, foundation still easy
I could do that in year 4 😭🙏
it's the bots in set 8 who never listen and then complain that school never teaches anything useful
Most of the people who failed can't be bothered
I got an E in maths back when I did my GCSEs I wouldnt have been able to answer some of those questions back then. I did a course with the open university as an adult and passed with a distinction. Schools just teach you silly methods, it isnt necessarily the students fault.
That's true because when I was in school, I found it difficult, not because I was bad at maths, but the way that it was being taught in class. The school placed me in foundation because of my learning difficulties and guess what the foundation was easy, got a grade 5 straight away, finished all the papers early as well. Then I self taught myself the higher and a level maths and was able to understand it because I was learning in the way I was comfortable.
Now I have a masters degree in Computer Science and aspiring to work in AI and Machine Learning which requires a good amount of maths.
I did something similar. Failed my maths and English in school, aced them in college. I genuinely think my school messed with my results, they actively made me fail one course by telling me I couldn't take it and kicked me out of the school. Came back the next day and they were asking why I missed it! I also apparently failed my geography exam despite having literally the best marks on all the mock exams in the school.
I accidentally autismed too hard and got put on the foundation paper even though i was ready for the higher one
Bro in Roumainia, 10 y/o are taking tests out of the same stuff and moast of them are scoring above 9/10
It might not be the same problem everywhere, personally as a french person I also couldn't do this as a sixteen years old. I didn't like math and I could just have grades everywhere else and pass. When you give it such little importance, when you cannot guide the students the way they need to be guided, they will just avoid what they find annoying, it's just that simple. Same with sports. They put the class at annoying hours, like early in the morning or at the end of the day when we all wanted to go home, it's easy asf to have a passing grade and the teachers lack any and all passion. So we treated sport like a joke.
American students can't do this either. I have 10th grade students that have no clue what combining like terms is.
even the 9 year old version of me can solve it more easily 💀
Foundation math is messed up. The questions are easy but the amount you need to get right to pass is absurd. Although I have never touched any foundation papers I kinda feel everyone should just do higher because the first questions are cross over (same on both) and you only need to get them and a few more marks along the way and you already have the pass. With the grade boundaries so close together someone looking at a 4 on foundation could even get 5 or 6 on higher
Thing is the easy questions on higher are normally the harder ones on foundation that people get wrong…
Hey, getting a 60% for a grade 4 on a foundation paper doesn’t mean you’d get a 60% on a higher paper. People getting 4s in foundation aren’t now magically more likely to get a 5 in higher.
@thatdude9091 but at the same time foundation requires to get a higher percentage to get grade 4-5. The best option would be to do a higher paper and try to get 50%-60%.
@ Teachers don't put people on foundation because they hate them. If people are doing foundation, it's because they aren't likely to get a 5+ in the real paper. The best option is to get a 100% in the real paper.
Not been to school for a long time, so downloaded the 2024:paper 1:foundation to see if it was actually that easy because I thought there's no way. It was way harder and I didn't even see these questions weren't on it
my reaction to the foundation paper they be giving to the lower set students compared to the higher paper. there is a full on barrier between the difficulty of two papers and its literally so unfair. no joke the first question was smth along the lines of ordering numbers from smallest to largest. FREAKING NUMBERS. its like theyre torturing us higher students
Yes but for higher you only need like 10 easy marks for a pass or something like that if i remember corectly
@tomtom101_ i dont think thats correct, im higher and i barely passed, i got a little under half marks with a grade 4 embarrassingly
@tomtom101_ im not sure about the real thing though, ill worry abt that next year 😭
@hrts4palestine yes but you probably would have got the same if you did foundation as its a lot easier
Your grade depends on how well others do in the test so if others do good a pass (grade 4) will be higher in marks
😂bro i have dsycalculia I struggled 5 times and finally passed,this disability makes trying to do maths straight up challenging.
I'll lose it as fast as I learn it
Where were these questions on my papers 💀
Bro tf this is a god damn foundation paper and I’m pretty sure that those questions were at the beginning of the paper. Wait until you see the last few questions on the higher and further papers bro (I had to do both cuz I’m in set 1 at schl 😭)
this is not what the higher papers look like 😂
As a Cambodian I'm learning these at grade 6 and the average age in my class is 11-12
*Makes jokes about people failing their maths GCSE*
*Doesn’t proceed to show a higher paper*
These are so much easier than the questions I had to do
We could complete the exam i sat GCSES in 2024, we were also the first year of exams without covid allowances so it was back to original grading so the grade boundaries went back up
The work force is finished 😭🙏 I didn’t know foundation level questions were this bad bruh 😭😭😭
Bro I’m 35 and I would have failed it lol that’s some real tough questions there
My lil bro already got the hang of all the questions and hes 13 😭🙏
This guy deffo did foundation studies if he thinks thats whats in a maths gcse
(All data used was found using Google, if you have more reliable data, please tell me)
The total number of students who took GCSEs, according to Google, was 667,340 or 5,811,790. (Not sure why it gave such a large range)
If the actual number is the first value, then approximately 25% of students failed their maths GCSE in 2024.
If the actual number is the second value, then it's only a 3% fail rate.
(I don't think this is the case, I'll explain why in a moment)
A quick Google search suggested that a GCSE is equivalent to a US high school diploma (I'm not American so correct me if that's wrong) and that the fail rate for maths over there is 20%.
As a result, the 25% GCSE fail rate seems quite close to the 20% fail rate in America.
The reason I doubt that the 3% fail rate is accurate is because of the similarities between the education systems in either country, which would make such a difference very surprising.
TLDR, the UK maths fail rate doesn't seem too bad compared to the US's equivalent, so the UK is probably not "cooked" unless the US is also "cooked" (which is a topic for someone who knows more than me about education)
This is the stuff I (in the us) learned when I was 11!
I’ve seen your SATs, they are much easier than the GCSE exams. This is Foundation tier exams which is for students who fail the Normal Higher Tier exam. They have to make it piss easy so that they somehow pass.
Bro aint no way the set 8's are doing this shit whilst I'm doing quadratics💀😭 Just did my Yr10 mocks and there where ppl full on SOBBING in the exam. Fair enough if your doing higher paper but the foundation tier are clearly clapped 🙏🏾😂
Gcse is split into 2 categories, foundation and higher. Foundation is s lot easier but you get capped at grade 5. These might be foundation but I'm doing higher mocks. From what I've heard the foundation people are really stupid but the higher questions can be unfathomable sometimes
Completey agree. Foundation paper is basically a primary school test paper
Not all foundation people are stupid most schools only let set 1 and 2 sit higher i was set 3 and got a 5, most the people on higher i know got a U
This is the foundation paper, basically the paper for not smarter people
how many people failed but still made it raise your hands
Im 23 and maths English science hasn’t done anything for me other than give me a lottery ticket to get jobs🤦♂️
These questions are from a foundation paper. I am in year 9 and I am doing higher, and I think this doesn't really represent the UK GCSE properly. Most people do higher.
As much as i agree😂 i think the only thing ive used from high school at all is basic math, percentages and basic English everything they teach is almost useless
Didn’t realise how easy foundation was 💀
I showed my 11 year old sister this and she answered it easily then I sent it to my Yr 7 cousin and he said that's that's the maths they do after Sat's in Yr 6...even Sat's were harder bruv
16?? Brother, I’m fourteen and we’ve been doin this algerbra for two years
Same here bro
bro these are year 7 questions 😭🙏