American Takes British GCSE Higher Maths!

I heard the EdExcel Higher Maths GCSE is pretty tough stuff. Time to see if I can handle it and critique whether or not the UK's exams really ARE as rough as they say...
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[evan]

1. I didn't know you could use a pencil! Had I known that I woulda just used pencil for the whole thing.
2. Who owns a ruler? Why do lines HAVE to be straight? :(
3. Hope you enjoyed this! It was an absolute beast to film and edit

[rak]

‘Use black ink, this is maths, the pencil’
Fam we gave up on pencils in year 6

[icecold_tea]

Evan: do I have to write all the steps?

Every uk kid: DO YOU WANT THE WORKING OUT MARKS OR NOT!?

[wez]

Who’s gonna tell him there are two more papers that make up an overall grade, it’s even worse if you do further maths

[adambednarek]

One other thing to note:
The reason you’re meant to write in black ink is because here in the UK, the scripts for external assessments are scanned by a machine before being handed to a physical examiner. The scanners are such that black ink is the only colour that it can recognise

[gablar_]

Mans got his smart watch on, you're disqualified mate

[grace]

who’s gonna tell him we have to do 2 more of these papers, learn 2 books a shakespeare play and 15 poems, as well as content for like 10 other subjects

[emeraldfraser]

Laughs in British for all of those marks he lost for putting the answer in a box not on the given line

[stevenpayne]

Hi, sorry to break the news to you but I was a maths and physics examiner for this exam board for a number of years and your final score on this exam would have been 52, not 61.
This equates to 65%, which in that year would have given you a grade 5 (possibly 6) which is equivalent to a grade 'C' (possibly B) on the paper for 16 year olds.

You have given yourself a few marks here and there which would almost certainly not have been given (unless you had a VERY sympathetic Examiner).

Your point about incorrect grammar was correct - I have fed this back to the Subject Officer for maths at Edexcel / Pearson.

Points to note:
1) You should use a ruler for graphs (It does say you require one on the front of the paper) and your working is set out in a chaotic manner which makes it difficult to follow.
2) When it says 'show your working' you need to set out each step logically and in order, top to bottom, and not keep jumping around in the answer space. You need to DEMONSTRATE your working, not merely provide it for the Examiner to go looking for.
3) You should use 'x' for multiplication signs, not '.' (which can be misinterpreted as a decimal point).
4) Your numbers are unclear....you should take care that your numeric 4's cannot be mistaken for a 'Y' or the greek letter 'Gamma'. You should also note that your '6' looks like a 'b' and vice versa, and that on question 19 your 'x' looks like a 'y'.
5) You actually had 90 minutes for the paper but only used 60, making it difficult to predict what your final score would have been if you had used the full allocation of time.

Based on this you would be borderline for acceptance on to an 'A' Level course (16 to 18 year olds) in most UK schools, and would probably need to rely on a good score on Paper 2

[harveyharriss]

Can we just appreciate that 15 year olds take this test and it isn’t even the hardest maths one at GCSEs there are further maths papers too.

[thefrogmonarch]

Are we not going to talk about how he should be disqualified because you have to do the exam in silence?

[mirilondondrift]

Why did I just watch some random guy do a test wtf

[Yasin_]

US Students: “School is soo hard and unfair”
(Non-Uniform and Multitask Questions) am I a joke you?

[cryptgul]

Then he realizes, he was sopposed to be silent when doing the exam otherwise they will rip your future in half.

[guna_kw]

British maths teachers running after him with a green and purple pen 😂😂

[slothshyper]

Who’s gunna tell him 15 year olds are doing this

[FrankFurther]

You cannot compare American 'exams' to English. US exams might as well be a quiz on the back of a cereal box

[lily-gxes]

my teacher would be screaming cos he doesn’t do curly x’s

[sophies]

Being a British citizen hearing him call them ‘points’ is getting on my nerves

[jamalsafeer]

Wait he has a degree and is struggling with maths GCSE’s, we do it when we’re 15/16 stressed with 20 other exams