OCR English Exam

I have an English exam tomorrow but its the WJEC board.

You don't get given the topic you just have to learn the exam techniques which is pretty simple.

WJEC is apparently the best board for English? Not sure if that's true that's what my teacher said.
 
Nymins said:
Surely the point of the exam is to not know what its about?

Your teacher should give you a general idea of what will appear, but I don't think you would ever get the exact question.
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The media exam I did was weird. You actually got given the paper 2 weeks before the exam, and had that time to prepare answers. Then just had to remember them in the exam. It was pretty easy!
 
Lethal` said:
The media exam I did was weird. You actually got given the paper 2 weeks before the exam, and had that time to prepare answers. Then just had to remember them in the exam. It was pretty easy!
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That simple? :confused: Was it an idea of the topics you'd have to write about, or the actual exam sheet with questions itself?
 
bhavv said:
Nah, Physics A level is just mentally hard, and both Chemistry and Maths are a good 2nd / 3rd.

Everything else is a joke compared to those three subjects.
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It's just down to personal ability and strengths really. I found geography harder than maths - clearly I'm rubbish at colouring in :p
 
I am sitting the OCR english as well. Not too worried about tomorrow and I think wednesday should be ok, but it is the poems I am worried about. I am a science/maths man and always fail to see the 'deeper meaning' in poems lol.

But just to clear up, 18th is the short stories paper (opening worlds book).
 
bhavv said:
Nah, Physics A level is just mentally hard, and both Chemistry and Maths are a good 2nd / 3rd.

Everything else is a joke compared to those three subjects.
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Oh dear I am taking those for A Level along with Economics. I've already started Maths AS and should hopefully have it by the time GCSEs are done. So I'm guessing that Further Maths is 'Mentally Hard'.
 
Nitefly said:
It's just down to personal ability and strengths really. I found geography harder than maths - clearly I'm rubbish at colouring in :p
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Ha ha, this reminds me of my year 8 geography class when I got told of because of my terrible colouring in. I still not have progressed since then, my 4 hour cousin can do better than me.

Well you can drop 35 marks and still get an A, which is quite a good indicator of how hard it is compared to Maths where you can drop 20 marks. That's in Percentage by the way. ( Those calculations are a bit off, one sec)
 
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Nitefly said:
Really? I thought it was a flat 80% to get an A at A-level. It was when I did them ~6 years ago.
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Nope, have a look at this. GCE physics B, Understanding processes.
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I will level it out for the same exam board as I do a different maths one.
For Core 2, which is the same time of year you need 60/72 which is 83% compared to physics which is 66%. It's a big difference.

I heard from street rumours that for the other sciences they altered the syllabus drastically in 2008 and they got easier apart from physics which got harder.
 
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Alex74 said:
That simple? :confused: Was it an idea of the topics you'd have to write about, or the actual exam sheet with questions itself?
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The actual exam paper. I don't think I even read the questions when I got in the exam hall :p

It was like 3 questions, iirc 2 essays and a magazine cover design.
 
chaosdestro0 said:
That would be UMS, raw marks are converted into them so for example if it's a really hard exam your 80% Raw might be 90% UMS.
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Ah, I see.

Generally speaking, don't you think that the exams that have the lower grade boundaries are going to be the 'harder' ones, or the ones that are more difficult to get the marks in? I mean, surely that's why they are lower, to balance them out. I just say that as you seem to be saying the opposite...?
 
Delphi-uk said:
Hey come on! Physics is fascinating - especially at Ph.D. level!
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Haha sorry, I just don't get very excited about physics. I'm interesting in the biological sciences so I'm the other end of the spectrum really. Biology is something that's easily accessible because we are living things and we see other organisms all the time, which is probably why I like it as my attention span is atrocious :p

I particularly dislike chemistry because it just felt like a 'tool kit' to do things either in physics or biology. It's essential, but just dull nitty gritty to me.
 
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