I just looked through the paper and I still think 2022 was more difficult. Probs just recency bias for the majority. Also sitting an exam live heightens the sense of difficulty felt for each question
Idk everyone’s going to say something different. Every day it seems like I feel differently on it.
I think it’s undeniable multiple choice was harder last year, but Q11,12 do seem to be harder this year. Q13 I thought was really easy this year and Q14 I’m unsure about - 2022 was way longer (in terms of working required) and probably a little less ‘typical’ in style, but I think the 2022 differential equation was much easier than anything this year (unless you’d done 2021 as preparation, in which case 2023 14 (a) should have been a piece of cake). So yeah I’m not sure
I do agree though that the overwhelming sounds of ‘2022 was easy 2023 was much harder’ are more to do with the fact that 2023 students sat 2023 paper under test conditions, and there’s probably no doubt that the 2022 paper influenced the way that students were taught in 2023. For instance last year my teacher said to us something along the lines of “In the old syllabus, they used to ask quite difficult projectile motion questions but from the current wording of the syllabus and first 2 exam papers, it doesn’t really seem like they can do that anymore.” and guess what we got for the last question (yes it was a projectile motion question way more difficult than those old syllabus ones and for like half the marks, you’ve seen the paper). So it’s tough to compare