Maths A Level • 2020 Pure Paper 1 (A2) • Edexcel • 📝

This exam walkthrough will show you how to do the questions from the exams that were originally intended to be sat in the summer of 2020. To learn the topics more deeply, explore the playlists on my homepage.

Grade Boundaries:
A* - 71
A - 54
B - 43
C - 33
D - 23
E - 12

0:00 Intro
0:15 Q1 Binomial Expansion
4:06 Q2 Solving Equations using Logarithms
5:42 Q3 Vectors
7:57 Q4 Inverse and Composite Functions
10:54 Q5 Arithmetic and Geometric Series
14:53 Q6 Harmonic Identity & Modelling
20:45 Q7 Quadratics, Lines, and Regions
24:48 Q8 Simple Differential Equation
26:38 Q9 Differentiation, Transformations & Range
35:17 Q10 Integration by Substitution
42:51 Q11 Circles & Arcs
51:54 Q12 Trig Identities & Equations
57:01 Q13 Recurrence Relations & Period Sequences
1:03:45 Q14 Connected Rates of Change & Differential Equations
1:11:07 Q15 Differentiation, Points of Inflection
1:20:00 Q16 Proof by Contradiction
1:22:37 Outro

[fatmabatmaz]

Loving the thumbnail . I know u are busy with the gcse channel but please do more of these for us y13s

[heyitsadelinaaa]

please do more of these videos with past papers/exam style questions for A level maths! your explanations are great

[AyumiOTB]

Sat this paper today as practice and scraped a B, definitely a hard paper good job on explaining everything clearly

[Rua]

Do you plan on making any more videos like this going through exam questions? I always struggle with how to actually apply the tools I have to some of the harder questions but find your explanations very helpful.

[nathanhawey]

i wish you had many past papers cause you r the best in A level maths fr

[motivatormodeon]

you are very good at answering these questions, and I understand everything that you do clearly. but I feel like I lack the critical thinking to get these questions right. what can I do to improve?

[scrumdum]

Really appreciate these videos :)
I'm wondering what order you would recommend students to do questions in, do you think it's a good idea to do questions backwards to around question 10 and then come back to the front? I find I struggle a lot with timing because I skip questions and spend loads of time on the later questions and forget everything I was doing before - don't really know how to fix it

[anime_addicted]

Can you help me with Q1 where do you find videos explaining this pls I search binomial expansion and it doesn’t come up, thx (anyone)

[jennaaa-]

Hi Sir hope your well, at 24:19 you say because they are solid lines you add the 'or equal to' sign as well, so is it possible we would get a dotted line in the exam?

[DeKevers]

1:14:02 Only part that's confusing me is on the left you have tan y = 9/x^2 but when you substitute it into tan^2(y) you don't square the value?

[jennaaa-]

And sir why did you put a greater than or equal to sign at 33:01 for g(x)

[ikrahmahmood]

for question 11, to find the perimeter can we use the circumference of a circle for each c1 and c2 and then subtract arl length for the small sector. eg for c1 circumference is 100pi and then subtract arc length for that small section (using r theta where r is 10 and theta is 0.635) and then repeat for c2. sorry its a lot

[lukekrawiec]

Hi, i was just wondering if you would be continuing the FM Further pure playlist? Im self studying Further pure this year and your videos have been really helpful so far!

[shamelahmed]

Good afternoon sir, at 19:05.. why did you not solve for another trig value? is it because they didn't actually give you a range for the trig values but instead gave it for the 'hours after midnight'

[fakesandwichvx]

Hello, I would like to ask about 53:51, I did not understand why dividing both sides by cos x means that cosx=0 as for any value of x would dividing both sides by cos x should still be possible right?

[smrityjomon]

for question 16, when it says positive integers why do u not mention negative numbers to do a contradiction?

[suyashss]

hey mr bicen im doing futher maths in year 12 right now and we get tought the entire a level maths first and then the futher course next year and to say that your videos are a life saviour so far is an understatement .. i was just wondering if you were going to do any futher stats 1 videos as my schools chosen courses are FM1 and FS1 and usual CPS and im jus hoping to see what your plans are in terms of if you are gonna do any futher stats videos as they would help soo much!!

[Rua]

1:12:31 for proving the point of 1:12:31 inflection would you lose marks if you just found the second derivative and subbed the given value of x straight away to show second derivative=0

[anime_addicted]

44:40 can someone tell me how tf it expands to x^2-30x+225? Surely it’s x^2-225 where is the 30x from ? It’s been vexing me for the last hour

[nicolelomas]

Hi, on question 15b, is it correct to say that the first derivative equals zero too at a point of inflection? I'm a bit confused because in the pure year 1 AS textbook page 273 stationary points it says that first derivative equals zero too at a point of inflection so how did we know that we had to find the second derivative as well and not just use the first derivative equalling zero to solve and prove that point of inflection ?