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Here is a collection of 5 topics that I have selected to be what I believe as “The 5 hardest GCSE maths questions” over the GCSE maths paper 2 exam. This is obviously subject to opinion, there were 10 topics to select from and this was then fine tuned down to 5. I hope you enjoy them!
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[@LoganL1231]

Thanks

[@yaridiqbal2193]

nice will it be foundation?

[@medusanmercy3816]

Can you also do top 5 impossible gcse questions just in case edexcel is still feeling nefarious

[@thathistorytime]

im with u bro

[@Editsbyclips]

Im here too

[@potati4097]

they did us dirty with the circle questions💀💀

[@6a6ey17]

Exactly 😭

[@asiyam860]

Honestly they did us so dirty

[@pandaonios83]

I no longer trust any predicted papers/questions after the hell edexcel put us through for paper 1

[@TheGCSEMathsTutor]

Don’t lose faith based on one paper 🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@benjamineke1298]

i swr paper 1 was crap no more predicted papers

[@kayw9235]

Exactly, I’m fully prepared for half the paper to be on questions harder than I’ve ever done

[@Noone.serenity]

Back here again getting prepared for tomorrow's possible disaster. Thank you for making these videos they really help a lot and make me feel very confident and smart

[@RJ-sl8yr]

same

[@TheGCSEMathsTutor]

So glad to hear it’s been helpful! Have you checked out the practice paper I posted yesterday too? 😁🙏🏼

[@not...not...no.643]

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[@xfreja]

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[@not...not...no.643]

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[@mooodlemip4779]

'ten ppl who speak German speak at least one other language' why does that mean there are only ten ppl who speak German? if it said THE ten ppl that speak German... then that would mean only 10 ppl speak German but it doesn't say that. I don't understand how you can know from that statement that only ten ppl speak German.

[@samalama2334]

thats wgat i was thinking aswell

[@aiimen3339]

ye thats what I think too

[@-user-69420-]

normally it says 'all people who speak German speak at least one other language' dont worry

[@holamellamo5626]

you helped so much for paper 1 it was ridiculous

[@TheGCSEMathsTutor]

Amazing news! I’m so glad to hear the channel has helped 😁🙏🏼

[@JayJaeBoi]

You explain things so much clearer than my maths teacher omg. Thank you so much!

[@ccpc314]

Perfect job! Clearly aexplained! Sorry but there is a mistake in the exercise with h^-1(x). You cannot put the third root as y can be negative. You have to take 2 cases (if y>=0, if y

[@sweettoy3824]

Doing my GCSEs next year and got through these quite well. Feeling confident

[@CreatorClips123]

Nice man. Good luck for next year

[@thekingofweebs9825]

Nerdy behaviour but I respect the grind

[@safakhan6478]

We got GCSE’s this year 🥲🫤

[@rossjago2381]

start doing like 30 minuets a day after school on a different subjects trust me lol it will be a lot easier when the GCSEs come round.

[@musajaved9862]

Well done, good luck next year!

[@pinkmangooooo]

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[@everythingtv4875]

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thank you so much, this was a very comprehensive video!!

[@TheGCSEMathsTutor]

Glad to hear it was helpful! 😁🙏🏼

[@caeleng5553]

I always listen to the intro music of your videos like 5 times before I actually start revising XD

[@user-uf1wr3xo3n]

same lol its so refreshing

[@blackeq1095]

answerd the cosine and sine rule question without help. revision payed of such a satisfying question when solved

[@TheGCSEMathsTutor]

Amazing news! I’m so glad to hear the channel has helped 😁🙏🏼

[@GCSEALevelMaths]

Congratulations on 112k subscriptions!! you offically have more than 100x my level of subscriptions haha. Great video sir as usual.

[@TheGCSEMathsTutor]

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[@LeviAckerman-ec8wr]

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[@thedeviousbootydelinquent7833]

Thank you, this really helped

[@lottie1777]

Thank you! That is useful!

[@TheGCSEMathsTutor]

My pleasure! So glad to hear it 😁🙏🏼

[@Amber-fz9xt]

Please could you do a video similar for AQA. I find your videos very helpful!

[@TheGCSEMathsTutor]

I have topic videos specific to AQA! I haven’t made a “hardest question” video but I’ve got all the links with the AQA videos 😁🙏🏼

[@megann1416]

i put the quadratic 2x^2-5x+2 in the quadratic equation and my solutions were 5.75 and 4.25 instead of 1/2 and 2 . .. . . im not quite sure what i did wrong/what i need to do instead of that since im not that good at factorising

[@TheGCSEMathsTutor]

Check to make sure you put any negative numbers in brackets and used the formula correctly! Hopefully it’s just that 🤞🏼🤞🏼

[@PianoCubeYT]

Very useful :))

[@jennifercalvin9441]

sorry, but for the first question, I am not sure how do we get to know that no students study only German.... i mean the question says that '10 people who speak German' speak another language, but it doesn't say there are only 10 people who speak German... would you please confirm?

[@L-zg7xd]

on other versions of the same question it says "all 10 people who speak German" so it is everyone who speaks german speaks another language. he must have typed it out wrong lol.

[@sui9452]

Thanks alot if i get a 6 because of you I'll be so happy

[@TheGCSEMathsTutor]

I really hope you do! Please do let me know when you find out 😁🙏🏼

[@Hassan-xu8rn]

what did you get?

[@nkema1431]

why was this so fun, thank you so much

[@TheGCSEMathsTutor]

So glad to hear it’s been helpful! Have you checked out the practice paper I posted yesterday too? 😁🙏🏼

[@nkema1431]

@@TheGCSEMathsTutor yes I have of course your videos save my life 😞😞 thank you king 🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@Maximus_x124]

4:30 how does that mean 0 people speak German. More people could still speak German or is it just a weird way of wording things

[@mooodlemip4779]

ikr it should say 'the ten ppl that speak German speak at least one other language' because otherwise the statement is ambiguous. I hope it is more clear in the exam.

[@TheGCSEMathsTutor]

It’s just a way of wording it, it tells us 10 people speak German, and within those 10 people all of them speak atleast one other language, or in other words, none of the people that speak German ONLY speak German 😁🙏🏼

[@Maximus_x124]

@@TheGCSEMathsTutor okay thanks but your wrong

[@mooodlemip4779]

@@Maximus_x124 lmao ur right tho

[@jerin2423]

@Oliver 49 but it doesn't say all, it says ten people who speak german speak another language, so there could be 12 people who speak german but ten of them speak another language

[@gav_mercado]

For the transforming graph, is a=90 should be a=-90? Because the graph is moving left? (x+a) is x=-a right?

[@TheGCSEMathsTutor]

No a=90 for a translation to the left! This video should help: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJOwoHeBi8-ti68 😁🙏🏼

[@someone-ty3kz]

in the inequalities question you said that a length cannot be negative. But the length 0.5 isn't negative so I don't understand why that cannot be a value

[@TheGCSEMathsTutor]

If you substitute x=0.5 into the width of the rectangle you would get a negative length, x isn’t the length it’s just a value that you would need to sub in to find the actual length!

[@ryou6453]

huge W

[@asiyam860]

I honestly love u.saved my first paper

[@TheGCSEMathsTutor]

Amazing news! I’m so glad to hear the channel has helped 😁🙏🏼

[@louisesteff1220]

For inverse functions for (b) do you have to do the cube root of x or can you do x^-3

[@Azeem8166]

Can this be used for aqa

[@a_active9904]

I literally have GCSE paper 2 today, I will tell you how it goes after the exam...

[@TheGCSEMathsTutor]

Please do! Best of luck in the exam 😁🤞🏼🤞🏼

[@a_active9904]

@@TheGCSEMathsTutor it was actually hard, but better than paper 1. There was agai. Hard ratio questions, I also tan out time for the last question and there was a coordinate question which was almost impossible to solve- I really wanna 8😞

[@dazzle8351]

@@a_active9904 what did you get??

[@studyonly780]

@@a_active9904 what did u get?

[@monty4732]

what did u get@@a_active9904

[@tropyzofficial]

thx

[@user-vr9oh2ls2q]

these questions are really that difficult tho except the sin one

[@corona.1482]

on the first venn diagram question where does it say that nobody speaks just german

[@naseemshah4443]

can’t do paper 2 for foundation

[@rohinieweerasinghe169]

Thank you

[@TheGCSEMathsTutor]

No problem 😁🙏🏼

[@sbining]

Can you please use a curser to show where you are referiing to because it is sometimes confusing to know what part you are reffering to.

[@TheGCSEMathsTutor]

I don’t record using a computer sorry! 😁🙏🏼

[@jamesbeels3213]

With the cosine rule question, how do you know which sides to label a,b and c?

[@jadaasein1974]

the side ur tryna find will always be a bc a is the subject of the formula in the equation, the other remaining sides can be labelled b or c it doesn’t matter

[@jamesbeels3213]

@@jadaasein1974 thank you

[@TheGCSEMathsTutor]

I see I was beaten to it! What a great community helping each other 😁👏🏼👏🏼

[@jamesbeels3213]

@@TheGCSEMathsTutor Yes!😄

[@randomtings3738]

What about vectors, that’s gotta be the hardest topic in the paper 2

[@Thrawnio]

For the 1st question, how did you find out that 0 people speak german? the information given says, 10 people that speak german also speak another language but no where does it say that there's only 10 german speaking people in total. Will they give me such an unclear question in the exam?

[@Amelia-uw7nw]

I think you just know as all the other numbers add to 50, therefore German must be 0

[@caeleng5553]

I am also confused by this. Perhaps I am wrong but I thought any combination of numbers that add up to 6 could go in Spanish only or German only so how would you know how many people speak only spanish or german? I hope I don't get this kind of question in my exam :/

[@mrquickogaming]

@27:57 my calculator says math error when i put in what you did

[@ainky5987]

Could you post exam questions on these topics too please?

[@TheGCSEMathsTutor]

They are all linked in the description 😁👍🏻

[@samepnahi9149]

The question 2 there is asked to find fg (2) but why you find first g?

[@TheGCSEMathsTutor]

Watch my full video on composite functions it will break it down in detail 😁🙏🏼

[@Gu66y453]

can you please do mathematics B please?

[@J26NGH]

I have a maths mock higher paper non-calculator in June the 7th 20-22 the teacher said it's a past paper will it most likely be this one

[@saifali1167]

yes

[@therocketman8933]

Is this for both higher and foundation?

[@nayem9318]

That what I’m thinking

[@arch_v4825]

This is for higher I think.

[@asiyam860]

Higher

[@shaaravguha3760]

Ye I don't think anything here will come up on foundation except venn diagrams...

[@Threecutefloofs]

Quick question I felt I didn’t do as great as I wanted on my maths paper today, I really want a grade 4 to get into college in September and still have 2 exams to go, let’s say I got a grade 2 or 3 on this paper, Or 1 but Thats unlikely, and I got 4s and 5s on both the other papers, would my overall be a 4, as the total mark I think is 157 marks for a grade 4 overall, and wondering if I can still achieve it, basically have I still got a chance to get a 4 despite me not knowing a few answers today, but did working out

[@JoeyMarshall]

If you're doing the foundation paper, then the highest you can get is a grade 5 I believe? You can definitely still get a pass but you need to make sure you're confident going into paper 2/3. As you say though, you're thinking of worst case scenario but writing down workings will bag you a mark or two here and there so not all is lost! Short answer is: Yes but you need to really work at it!

[@Yuvility]

I messed up paper 1 foundation do you think I can clutch it in paper 2 and 3 i have a feeling I'm better on calc :(

[@Brian-tf1bl]

You’ll need to get grade 5 in both of the papers

[@Yuvility]

How much marks do you think all together is a grade 4?

[@sadiabashir1838]

@@Yuvility I think that’s like 134 for the foundation paper

[@itsrhea7742]

as long as you get at least 65 on both papers you should be okay. just make sure to do exam questions for every topic from the advanced information.

[@TheGCSEMathsTutor]

Absolutely!! You can do it 💪🏼💪🏼

[@kiwii.8385]

Idk if u will answer in 1 hour cuz the exam is in 1 hour but I still dont understand how you made the cos(a) the subject. I thought it was a²= b² +c².... cos(a) so a² has to be positive and oyher should be negative but in your calc. they were the opposite signs

[@TheGCSEMathsTutor]

At this point, with an hour to go, I would suggest you just learn the formula, in the first minute of the exam, write the formula down on your exam paper and then refer back to it if you need it 😁🙏🏼

[@Julie-pq7fg]

i honesly think paper 2 would be way harder than these questions, the questions on paper 1 was not even comparable to any past papers

[@TheGCSEMathsTutor]

I’m not sure.. there were definitely a few tricky question on paper 1 but I wouldn’t say it was incomparable, try to put paper 1 in the past now though and let’s see how paper 2 is 😁🙏🏼

[@ChiragSonne]

I am an American GCSE is hard for those American right?

[@jayplayzyt4184]

Great video but ive been wanting to say this for a long time.. would you mind making the intro a bit quieter like im only on 40% volume and it is loud as hell.

[@TheGCSEMathsTutor]

I tried making it quieter on my latest video, let me know if it’s any better! Dropped it to 20% 😁🙏🏼

[@jayplayzyt4184]

@@TheGCSEMathsTutor thank you sooo much you are amazing

[@TheGCSEMathsTutor]

@@jayplayzyt4184 Thank you 😁🙏🏼

[@jayplayzyt4184]

@@TheGCSEMathsTutor maths today was absolutely amazing

[@alemi3d]

34:10 hi sir, I got 1.97cm as answer, will there be a range as I rounded the degrees to whole numbers.

[@brandong9247]

I don’t think you’re get full marks it’s better to just store in calculator so you don’t have any mistakes

[@lola-jo9cx]

For the first probability question, I don't understand how the statement '10 people who speak German speak at least one other language' means nobody speaks just German - it doesn't imply that there are 10 German speakers in total because it should say 'The 10 people who speak German speak at least one other language no?

[@TheGCSEMathsTutor]

To be fair! I’d agree with you, some of the language uses are questionable on these style of exam questions for sure! 😁

[@tonycollierx]

@@TheGCSEMathsTutor I'd go further and say no harm in expecting an ambiguous statement as if it exists this will be the key that unlocks the question

[@Marshihaa0805]

Is this foundation paper?

[@TheGCSEMathsTutor]

Higher 😁🙏🏼

[@mrtoast2297]

25:25 does it matter where u label a, b and c

[@strawbnico]

not rlly icl

[@TheGCSEMathsTutor]

You choose! 😁🙏🏼

[@duchessofhazjack4878]

Are you doing this for foundation too? Desperate to pass to get on my access course!

[@TheGCSEMathsTutor]

I’ve got a whole video going over the foundation topics and a further video releasing a few days before the exam 😁🙏🏼

[@duchessofhazjack4878]

@@TheGCSEMathsTutor You are a lifesaver. thank you! I pause it and do it first, takes me ages doing bus stop division etc and then you show me how it's done in about 3 seconds 😄

[@TheGCSEMathsTutor]

@@duchessofhazjack4878 aaaah that’s such a good method though, exactly how I’ve intended for the videos to be used! Keep up the great work 😁💪🏼

[@yodateam8111]

For the last question I worked out AD and used the cosine rule to find x, I still got 1.95 so would I still get full marks if I used this method?

[@yaridiqbal2193]

When will u upload paper 2 based on advanced

[@yaridiqbal2193]

@Cheez Dench thanks

[@TheGCSEMathsTutor]

Already got a perfect response! I’ll be doing another one on Sunday too 😁🙏🏼

[@annabelleblack4462]

what exam board is this for?

[@TheGCSEMathsTutor]

This particular video is for Edexcel, but check the topics on your exam checklist, you can download them in my description 😁🙏🏼

[@olly8540]

i am annoyed with how you got 0 for german speakers in the ven diagram question as there is no information in the question which explains the german speaking count?

[@driksy_flex9096]

because the people who speak german speak other langue to so nobody speak only german i hope you get it now. not the best to explain

[@olly8540]

@@driksy_flex9096 ye i get that but how come it says '10 people who speak german...' and not 'of the ten people' implying there could be more than ten in total and @The GCSE Maths Tutor took the remaining german speakers who only spoke german to be 0

[@footballhighlights6673]

I am estimating on foundation paper 1 I got 44-47/80 is that bad or good

[@alfienolan6037]

ive kinda estimated around the same but not to worry as the points will be added onto your answers for paper 2 and 3

[@shaq9116]

It’s a grade 3-4

[@footballhighlights6673]

@@shaq9116 hopefully I got a U in last year’s mocks believe it or not

[@simbamikedad9931]

i got between 35 and 40 i need to go ham next 2 tests

[@Yuvility]

@@simbamikedad9931 same bro I messed up paper 1 about to go crazy paper 2 and 3 👿

[@blackeq1095]

anyone more hard questions?

[@TheGCSEMathsTutor]

There’s a full video in the description and another coming on Sunday 😁🙏🏼

[@itsangel9134]

My retake starts in 57 minutes dont think im passing lol

[@tongueout7315]

Did u pass

[@cas2116]

anyone else not get how you know it’s 0 people only speaking German or am I just dumb 💀

[@judeelwrayeth4001]

i didn't get that part either

[@TheGCSEMathsTutor]

It says “the 10 people who speak German speak atleast one other language” so no-one that speaks German only speaks German 😁🙏🏼

[@cas2116]

@@TheGCSEMathsTutor Oh that makes sense thanks, I guess the the is just missing

[@nickshales430]

@@TheGCSEMathsTutor Actually, it just says "10 people who speak German speak at least one other language". This leaves it open to interpretation whether there are only 10 German speakers or indeed more than 10. However, I suppose it is safe to assume that the question intends there to be 0 German only speakers since we can't work the answer out without this information, but the wording is a little ambiguous in my opinion. This is a case where simple inclusion of the word 'the' at the start of that sentence would have cleared this up. Perhaps it is just a typo on your slide? :)

[@Maximus_x124]

@@nickshales430 nice also wtf is this, bc a maths question should never just be open to interpretation

[@peterstewart550]

Why are we assumint that the total number of German speakers is 10. That's not what is written. Hope that this isn't based on a real GCSE question as you shouldn't have to make guesses.

[@TheGCSEMathsTutor]

It says “10 people who speak German” it is a little strange wording but it’s just a question style to practice! Students always dislike this language 🙏🏼🙏🏼