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Yaay...
I have decided that OCR is better than AQA.
Anyone else with the A Level results today?
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Yaay...
I have decided that OCR is better than AQA.
I did better at GCSE. Some of the teachers are thinking that something funny is going on with AQA though, like one person in the entire class got a B or higher for Biology and Chemistry. One of 'those people that always get full marks' got a C.
Pft, please. They don't mark you on what you wrote on the paper. They use your answers to multiple choice questions to generate a random number, which they give you as a grade
Hmm, your college did badly in chemistry as well? There's got to be something up if everybody got lower than expected...
Results follow a 'bell curve' pattern so regardless of overall marks the overall grade boundary would be dropped. It wasn't that hard. If I had put a lot more time and effort in I could have done better. I think everyone walks into chemistry thinking it will be the same as GCSE chemistry, which is a piece of ****. When in reality, this requires a lot more abstract thinking and lots of revision. The latter of which I did not do enough of.
Well when we did past papers under exam conditions most people were getting pretty consistent results, i mean i was always getting Bs. Teacher said that it's just not normal to be getting that much lower across the board. He also said that they hadn't added up the marks for Section A and Section B before and that they could have done it again... we'll be going through it in the lesson tomorrow though, so we'll see.
Probably resit, but we'll talk about it with the teachers tomorrow. One of the biology teachers seemed to think the paper was alright, but didn't know the mark scheme. The chemistry teacher didn't seem to be in a good mood (which is a shame because he's brilliant, would hate for him to blame himself), but seemed to be of the persuasion that something could be up with AQA.
The thing about biology is that i get all the concepts when we cover them in the lesson, but there's a massive difference between understanding the subject and being able to answer exam questions. That and there's a ton of material to remember compared to the other sciences.
At least we did better than Year 13 did last year, they said that only two people in the entire year passed
E isn't a fail, it's just worthless
I think we did one, maybe two in a lesson. But really we're pushed for time to actually get through the material, not much free lesson time left by the time it comes to revision.
Those marks could be for anything...
[TW]Fox;21431301 said:I'd have thought you'd have aced a question like that with your unique political insight and ideology
I wouldn't be surprised if they marked me down because they disagreed with me
OCR Biology is not..
And what kinda' thing do you do for your biology/chemistry coursework? Out of interest..
On OCR we only do a few assessed practicals.
In Chemistry we have six PSAs that we have to do throughout the entire course, assessed by the teacher with two marks available for each. Then the ISA is a practical (usually a titration
) with an associated exam paper.And i can't say AQA Biology is particularly easy either
I'm not sure i agree with you that it's easy, but there is something going on there. Definitely a correlation between exam boards and quality of grades
Yes. I should have done better. In fact, that's probably the subject i revised for the most. I may not be great at it but i'm better than a U. Will be talking to the teachers more tomorrow to see what they think with regards to remarking/asking for the paper.
The chemistry teacher said that he was strongly considering putting the whole class in for a remark.
It's not likely that i'd be able to do pure physics without maths anyway. There are a few courses i think i could get on that i think would interest me, geology/astronomy stuff etc. but i'm not entirely sold on the idea of uni anyway. We'll see what happens.
Don't think people doing English in my school had an exam in January, just coursework until June?
Yeah, and just the first modules at that.
It is entirely possible that they discovered a love for Biology after making their A Level choices. It's not like you can be expected to know exactly what you want to do in life at 16
They are not the same degree though. Why do you think Cambridge and Oxford are so well respected? The degrees are probably the hardest in the country hence why a 2:1 in a good degree from one of those is respected more than a first from nowhere. Maths at Oxford or Maths at Cumbria. Both people get a 2:1. You do the math (no pun intended
It could be said that Oxford and Cambridge are so well respected not because of the "quality of their degrees", but because of their standard of teaching.